hickamore
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| Tidal MQA Hollowness onhwy61, cleeds: you are seriously overreading and projecting as well. Absolutely nothing to do with "western" language, but English alone, and just one specific tendency in English usage common to ALL users of the language, irrespective of politi... | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness Late entrant, steep learning curve, no simple answers. Must be why this enterprise keeps smart people engrossed. Anyhow that's the goal, convenient streaming with analog fidelity. | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness There is a mono crowd? [Jaw drop here]. Makes sense to me that some good DACs won't mess with MQA. 2LPCM on a good DAC? Not yet. Bricasti? | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? "In C," by Terry Riley. Or "Fast Car," by Tracy Chapman. | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! tomic601, it's certainly true than one can have good taste, even exquisite taste, and still be a narcissist or even a Nazi. As for which among the contributors may harbor pathologies, I can't tell and wouldn't announce my discoveries if I could. M... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! When a serious lifelong audiophile tells me that a special DIY power cord makes a transformative difference in his system, I believe it. I don't assume that the reporter is just imagining things, especially when he says his listening trials have b... | |
| Connecting a streamer via an Ethernet cable Spent a month doing A/B between Ethernet-wired Lumin and Cambridge on WiFi into same DAC. The Lumin offered far superior clarity, resolution, depth, and presence. Now, how much of this difference can be attributed to Ethernet vs WiFi as opposed t... | |
| DAC Burn-In Question nglazer, if audiophilia is someone's favorite hobby, there's no such thing as too much time devoted to it. Hence the existence of this forum.Question, 7 years later: are you still using the Direct Stream today, and are you still thrilled with it? | |
| RIP Lou The advent of cassettes expanded my world forever, all thanks to this man. Still got a drawerful of personally curated, carefully titled 90-minute "playlists" in an easy-access drawer plus a functioning player straight into the preamp.I deem tomor... | |
| HELP! Large speakers fell over during shipping. If there is a shipper who specializes in huge, heavy, yet lovely and delicate furniture-grade loudspeakers, I don't know about it. To those responsible for hands-on physical movement, cargo is cargo. "A mind that's weak and a back that's strong," ... | |
| Check in: How quickly are streamers and servers evolving? An illuminating thread with many viewpoints. Any old streamer will do if the DAC is great? Vice-versa? A question I'm trying to answer for myself, allotting $5k for the experiment. Could turn out the new front end is no better sonically than the ... | |
| Which DAC as a preamp? @shadorneI'm referring to DAC input from streamer, not output to preamp. Output is balanced XLR to the preamp. Input is the RCA coax from the streamer (as of today). | |
| Which DAC as a preamp? @shadorne , @transience, I too expected my very mellow balanced tube preamp to tame the highly analytical M6S for a perfect match. On SOME recordings -- notably those originally analog mastered -- it works splendidly despite subsequent remastering... | |
| Sonics of Streaming Very interesting, thanks. I will also look up other threads possibly addressing the same question. | |
| Sonics of Streaming I meant streamer/transports -- digital-out processors with no integrated DAC. For example, the Aurender N10 versus the N100H. |