jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| My Ifi Zen Stream Review: 3D Soundstage! Good to hear of more lower-cost gear/streamers that can compete with the expensive stuff! | |
| why do people think the LINN LP 12 is so superior to the Thorens (say 165 super) The Linn's heavier platter gives it better speed stability/more inertia. I have a LP12 and a TD160. Both can sound fine! | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? Men like to argue! Must be genetic! | |
| Please Suggest Approaches to Perceived System Darkening Try cleaning your RCA jacks and plugs with Deoxit or CopperBrite. Don't forget the AC plugs! | |
| GaN Amp & Speaker Popping Sound At Power On That’s a capacitor charging/discharging! A design flaw that was deemed insignificant! Just leave the amp on 24/7. Class D should run cool to the touch! | |
| Marantz PM Ki Ruby and RME ADI 2 (Am I crazy?) IMO all streamers sound alike. Think of them as a selector box. No gain involved - so no coloration added. People that claim to hear differences are IMO just whistlin' Dixie - or trying to sell you something! | |
| Does Expert Music Streamer Outrun CD Player? +1 jafant! | |
| Does Expert Music Streamer Outrun CD Player? Regarding CD errors - the Reed Solomon protocol takes care of that, otherwise optical playback wouldn't work! The data stream is output complete - regardless whether it is music or financial data! | |
| Does Expert Music Streamer Outrun CD Player? @audiotroy:@audiotroy: bits are bits! Whether read optically or from a hard drive! That is the nature of digital storage and playback! Lasers can and do die - but hard drives crash and data is lost. Unlike a CD player/transport where the the CD re... | |
| Does Expert Music Streamer Outrun CD Player? It's all about the source! Whether the music has been compressed to sound "louder" or not! Too many "remastered" recordings suffer from this limiting of dynamic range. With streaming you are at the mercy of whatever is available. That's why I rema... | |
| Marantz PM Ki Ruby and RME ADI 2 (Am I crazy?) Keep the Marantz as a power amp! It is high quality! Spending more on another amp will only yield a small difference at best! The power stage of the Marantz is already very transparent to the source - as you heard when you used the DAC direct. | |
| ML 35 DAC upgrade possible or not ? Leave it alone! It already has hi-grade parts inside. If you think some newer DAC is somehow "better" sell it and buy another. | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? Julius used hollow ferrite rods on the wiring of his amps - at least the one's I've seen. | |
| Best Way To Maximize Preamp Tube Life? Tubes are NOT like fine wine! They DO NOT improve with age! If fact when they are brand new and at 100% cathode emissions that is their peak performance. They only decline with use as the cathode coating gets used up. James Bongiorno pointed this ... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? Miyajima in Japan copied the Futterman circuit and made some mono amps. The late Art Dudley tested and reviewed a pair for Stereophile some years back. |