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| End Game Turntable suggestions Consider the Merrill-Williams REAL. A number of dealers were using them to demo their equipment at AXPONA and it sounded very detailed and tuneful. You might also look at Clearaudio and Acoustic Signature. Dealers may have stock of the Merrill... | |
| Cartridge setup experts: Azimuth critique You can't optimally align a cartridge visually. You can get it close but you will never get it right... you need tools. The Wally way is one approach. I use Analog Magik. Can't believe I went all these years without it. bottom line, visually m... | |
| Stereophile Scamming Subscribers? Even though I agree that bitching about $20-30 a year is a waste of everyone’s time... I subscribed on Amazon for $9.74 a year with auto renewal. That is 81 cents an issue... That probably barely covers the postage | |
| Cables to settle brightness Herbs and spices should never be used to modify the flavor of a dish. You should always achieve the exact flavor you are aiming for through the choice and combination of the primary ingredients. If we are using food analogies we should use one... | |
| The Beatles Revolver To me it stinks of pandering to a generation that has limited attention span, doesn’t care about sound quality I’m going to venture a guess that you haven’t heard any of these remixes or you wouldn’t make such ill-informed statements. First, h... | |
| Cables to settle brightness I think you bring up a very importanr point. Ideally you want your components to sound perfect together before working on cable / interconnects. exactly. If you are trying to use cables as tone controls to dull it down then you need to back up ... | |
| The Beatles Revolver one more thought.. if you haven’t heard the remixes in Atmos you really shouldn’t be commenting. I’m not talking about "fake" Atmos from your TV sound bar. I’m talking about true 7.1.6 Atmos from a high end theater. If it doesn’t impress you then ... | |
| The Beatles Revolver I grew up with the Beatles. I bought the original 45's of songs like "I Want to Hold Your Hand" back in the early 60's, still have them. As such I think I didn't realize how revolutionary and extremely talented they really were until recently whe... | |
| Chord M-Scaler and Should I Want One? Anyone have any reasons why NOT to consider the M Scaler with my Gryphon DAC? The M Scaler seems to be one of those rare products that almost everyone unanimously says is great. Sort of like the Innuos PhoenixUSB I've tried both those boxes. Sc... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer The timing of the Streamer vs the DAC depends on the connection used. If you use the USB connection, then the DAC retimes the bitstream. If you use the S/PDIF or AES connection then the DAC uses the incoming timing. This is why it is important to... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer So, the data, which represents the amplitude of the music must be correct, and error correction techniques ensure this, but crucially the timing must be consistently spot-on too. That’s why different streamers etc sound different. The timing i... | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? You can’t recover lost DATA after the source , so I think of the streamer as a modern day "Transport" While this is true, it is not a reason to spend more on a streamer. Every streamer, every ethernet switch, every cable, passes bit perfect dat... | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? Quality room correction is not cheap, unfortunately I have a Trinnov too, but you don’t need to spend that kind of money to get room correction. It is fairly inexpensive to create and use convolution filters that can be used within Roon, HQplay... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer Computers fail, there’re noisy and take up space. Streamers provide absolute simplicity. Streamers are computers Streamers like the Aurender mitigate timing errors in the signal transmission by buffering, but this only limits the signal ji... | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? It's always amusing when someone posts a completely outrageous scenario and the audiophools pile on thinking it was serious. Bravo !!! You got these phools to believe you spent almost $700 on an ethernet switch, thousands on power supplies and w... |