ghasley
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| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev Frankly speaking, I hope your jaw drops when you hear your Gryphon dac. It would be really cool if there is a unique synergy between a server/streamer and your Diablo/Diablo dac. That was your original goal and to most of us, it is irrelev... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @bruce19 He may have been describing the lower cost of ownership due to the purchaser NOT swapping in and out of gear. In other words, you don’t lose money if you don’t sell it. I wish I had never heard better dacs. I’ve spent a ton on the ... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev The Merason is 24/96 at the AES input. When I owned it I had an Innuos Zenith and fed it via USB. Since I never enabled Roon to upsample so I only fed it native resolutions. Regarding how it sounds with the Grimm MU1 at 2fs only, it will sti... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev I presently have a Shunyata Sigma v2 AES/EBU cable. I also have in house a Network Acoustics Muon AES/EBU cable to compare. I can’t reliably tell them apart in A to B and B to A testing. What does that mean for your application? Maybe nothin... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev Others may differ but I would suggest using reasonable XLR interconnects but to not go crazy. If you read up on the XLR standard, the standard was developed to minimize cable differences. I’ve had alot of good ones...did I hear differences... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @jasonbourne52 Unless controlled listening tests are done all bets are off! A DAC is really just a sound card - and needn't cost four and five-figures! Hmmmmmmmmmmm. | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev just a reminder to stay focused on your goals and your plan. | |
| "High end" store snobbery @gabor2525 did you buy the gear from them that you were trying to trade in? | |
| "High end" store snobbery I’m not sure why our hobby seems to attract (in certain locales) the occasional indifferent dealer or the occassional hyper-sensitive customer. When I was younger, there were a fair number of electronic techs who had slowly evolved into stocki... | |
| Proof of improvements in audio system sound quality.... Eternal trolling… | |
| Tube DACs @allanblissett every dac has an analog output stage, volume or no volume. | |
| Tube DACs @hickamore There are a number of dacs with tubes. Some have volume (Lampizator, Totaldac D1-Tube) some don’t (Aqua La Scala). Some skeptics may opine that they color the sound….but what doesn’t? VERY few dac, be they solid state or tube output s... | |
| Made in USA Ah…no I don’t but the reviews seem quite positive … more importantly, several of their dealers do a fine job of curating what they sell. Be well. | |
| Made in USA @bjesien I am good and hope you are as well….do I have one of these? | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? @unreceivedogma thanks for posting. There is a good history of hip hop in a documentary on PBS. IIRC Chuck D produced it? Like you eloquently stated, there is a great deal of the genre that I don’t personally enjoy. Others on this thread are m... |