hickamore
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| Distinctly Digital Forever? @erik_squires Please let me never smell kenjity. If it weren't a question of interest TO ME, I wouldn't have mentioned it. What I asked was CAN it be done -- NOT "how can I improve" -- and @ghdprentice answered this to my full satisfaction. As to... | |
| Distinctly Digital Forever? @ghdprentice, given your absolute top-end system, I can readily accept that your digital stream sounds as natural as your analog side. This assures me that yes, it CAN be done. But can it be done at, say, half the expense? I note that the ARC DAC ... | |
| How do you find time to enjoy your $$$ speakers and system? With my GF only one week a month. When at my place, she's a rock-'n-roll fool and banshee dancer who's fine with 95+ dB sound levels. So EYHO, gents, and in the next life, take more seriously The Beat song "I Want To Be With A Rock-'n Roll Girl" (... | |
| More Bass Legacy Signature SE user for 6 years. All very good suggestions above, and they may work for you. Certainly it's too soon to judge before yours get 100+ hours of good workout. I personally can't do without LOW bass, whereas the SE's are designed ... | |
| A SHOCKING DISCOVERY ABOUT DIGITAL AUDIO +1 @waytoomuchstuff et al. | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" Socrates would say that whether "rap" is music is a question of definition, not of taste. For example, I hate James Taylor, but would never deny that what he does is music. And yet, in American usage, even before Webster's Third New International ... | |
| Tube DACs @axo0oxa You miss the point. As the thread above has clarified, a tube DAC (or any DAC) with volume control can be used as a preamp in itself. So the OP asks, is you have a tube DAC and like tube sound, why bother using it simply to feed a tube pr... | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? As a college freshman I had only a "record player" with all electronics and speakers packed in the base -- dorm rooms are tiny and students are poor. Soph year I lived in a suite with an audiophile who supplied the music and wouldn't touch Japanes... | |
| Tube DACs "you might try eliminating the relative complication and noise of a pre-amp in favour of a transformer volume control (TVC) or similar device:" In my case that's not an option because I use 3 analog inputs besides the 2 DACs. Well, maybe if I ran... | |
| Tube DACs @audioman58 The T+A DAC 200 is actually top of my list. With a tube preamp always. Whether a tube DAC would better sit my ears is TBD. | |
| Tube DACs "Tube DACs were not designed to eliminate the preamp any more than a tube phono pre is." The above succinctly states what all responses are telling me, and thanks for it. There are those who run streamer/dac/pre combo units straight to amp. But n... | |
| Tube DACs Thanks to all for the informative answers. Somehow I had forgotten those tube DACs having no volume control. So what about pairing tube DAC with SS preamp? (Not that I'm planning any experiments, and if I did, @ghdprentice is correct, they wouldn'... | |
| Burt Bacharach has passed away Ditto. | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? Based on the above, one gleans that "music" is simply a term we use to designate "sonic performances and recordings of sonic performances," irrespective of content. (Not counting sheet music, arguably the most important kind of all) .And yet: all ... | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? Some of us don't accept the notion of "genre." Useful for some purposes, yet so much of the best lies between or beyond. Experts say Purcell is pre-Baroque. OK, but he sounds Baroque enough for me. The War On Drugs. Rock? I would say yes. Purists ... |