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| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance There’s not much close to the confiscatory pricing of lengths of wire in this hobby except for perhaps streamers and server’s , basically computer parts in an attractive looking box.I love these threads and if I were in the audiophile business sel... | |
| Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile" Cd318 , well there’s a load of underperforming mediocre components at all price points however for those whom cannot hear the difference from a well designed great performing component’s can easily end up with a lifeless sounding system .if you pi... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i vs Upscale streamers Ozzy62 great topic, However my curiosity leans more toward a server having recently purchased a three piece digital stack with a streamer that is scheduled to be released soon. However I have second thoughts of purchasing a stand alone streamer ..... | |
| Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile" “Audiophile’s”.... A group of people belonging to a niche hobby which whom many are easily manipulated into believing the more expensive said product’s are the better the performance . | |
| What CD Transports Provide the Most Detail? Hey Dpser just in case you’re unaware the majority of members at least acknowledge with a simple thanks and move on of responses to their specific questions.Then I read you kept asking basically the same question Lol , usually the next step if you... | |
| Does the 'Buck' Start with the DAC? Wow , David you have a budget of 20 to 30 grand for a digital front end ? What fun that would be though some here suggested a Shiite dac and Bryson CD player can’t be beat and anything spent over that is getting on a fast train of disminishing ret... | |
| Does the 'Buck' Start with the DAC? Further more I believe it all really starts with a great recording , after all that’s why high end play back exists isn’t it ? | |
| Does the 'Buck' Start with the DAC? There’s a ton of hyped and praised mediocre stuff on the market at every price point and despite what many of the audio reviewers been telling us for decades you will not always get what you pay for. I’m in the camp it all matters , you just have ... | |
| What CD Transports Provide the Most Detail? My first impression of a CEC transport was listening to the TL2n bigger brother during a pick up of a online purchase of a unrelated item .The following week I returned to the fellows home with some of my favourite disks and was enthralled with wh... | |
| What CD Transports Provide the Most Detail? Dsper I failed to answer your question, one of my listening biases is small scale details especially with uncompressed live recordings . | |
| Does the 'Buck' Start with the DAC? Imagine if there were incremental differences in playback performance with any server or streamer and you could buy a really good one for 50 bucks . I’m not sure that I would place the dac in the hierarchy of all things . | |
| What CD Transports Provide the Most Detail? I burnt through thousands wanting to upgrade a couple of years ago. i tried a few popular dac transport combinations settling with a CEC T2LN transport which replaced a PS Audio Perfect Wave transport.Being introduced to ripping using a custom ser... | |
| Brave man, McGowan... McGowan mentioned “ These power cords are stupid expensive “ Well I think he’s right about the stupid part of it , heh for those saving up for that $10.000 game changing end all mother of power cords here’s your chance at only spending 1/2 the pri... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service I enjoy streaming as much as the next guy however what is being offered as premium Hi-Res , HD and what have you at is not as advertised and all the services do it of course .Im going to be speaking with another recording engineer whom also subscr... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service I recently chatted with one recording engineer whom found some of work on Amazon that is being sold as HD when in fact it’s 16/44 . |