ironlung
Responses from ironlung
| Point of higher priced streamer? @ironlung I for one am enjoying your posts and learning quite a bit. Thank you.Great to hear. There's just so much confusion about all of this stuff I finally decided to try to do my part to elucidate some of the nuances involved. | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? There are a lot of great points made here on both sides of the argument but I think as with anything many people are looking at things too microscopically and need to zoom out and take a macro view at what is actually happening with "streaming" on... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? ^^ Are we seeing yet another reincarnation of the famous poster who keeps popping up like hydra's heads? The 14 posts I've written thus far are the only posts I have ever submitted to Audiogon forums, period. | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please Have you looked into what the capabilities of the M1's MDx processor module upgrade are? https://bricasti.com/en/consumer/mdx.phpLooking into the owner's manuals, you can use the Bricasti as a network DAC for a UPnP/DLNA server. My guess is that i... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? you must run usb to get the Best out of a dac only usb ofers asyncronous data transfer which cits down on zransmittteed jitterActually this is not entirely true. While most do, some DACs do not use Asynchronous USB, but isosynchronous; also not al... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please Ironlung- thanks for your considered response. I own a Bricasti M1; my entire system is on my profile. Cool, what a nice piece. I've only heard the Bricasti stuff here and there, but it's quite amazing and I think you should certainly consider a b... | |
| is Hi-Res all that? I will continue to disagree about the better the system, the better "poor" recordings sound.The goal of a reproduction system is to reproduce accurately what was on the original recording.The better the system is at reproducing the recording accur... | |
| 0s & 1s are all the same aren’t they? Is it really worth paying for a “better” Streamer? @ironlung 😂😂😂😂. Thanks for that.Should I also learn how to tap my toes?My point was, anyone describing Linn "house sound" as "smeared" obviously has no real experience with Linn at all, and needs to listen to a properly set up Linn HiFi. You just ... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please Ok- you’re not a fan of Aurender then you say you could do better for the money.Please suggest alternative serversWhat is your DAC? The Innuous Zen recommended above by tump350 is a great alternative for a turn-key solution, as are the Antipodes p... | |
| is Hi-Res all that? it’s about the music but the music is much more enjoyable when well recorded. i’m sorry that it irritates me to hear ‘great music’ that’s poorly recorded. no excuse for it.There's plenty of good music with "lo-fi" production. If your HiFi doesn't ... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? It’s called expectation bias. I saw a good friend show himself up in front of a room full of guys comparing his £6000 mains cable Vs a £3.50 kettle lead.The lad doing the switching had double bluffed. My mate was claiming “night & day, you... | |
| is Hi-Res all that? A great resource to help you answer your question is Mark Waldrep's blog:https://www.realhd-audio.com/While Mark is a source of controversy for some in the industry, he is overall not at all wrong in what he discusses. I don't fully agree with him... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Most of the technical discussions about why streamers can sound different focus on issues of noise, jitter, memory buffers, and software implementation, and it is critical to recognize that existing methods for measuring equipment may not do a goo... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please While I'm sure this will disappoint those who have chosen to support them (I once did), I think the Aurender fan base is becoming more and more irrelevant. I'm not saying the products are bad or don't perform well, but there are plenty of other of... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? It seems like for a bunch of enthusiasts, no one really knows what they are talking about around here...Allow me to provide a hint - anyone who thinks that AirPlay is "indistinguishable" from other methods of data delivery on a network has absolut... |