jastralfu
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| Building your music digital music collection I have hundreds of CDs I ripped and I’ve downloaded many files from Qobuz and HDTracks with the intention of doing just what you are planning. That quickly lost steam once I started to stream with Qobuz and Tidal. I now almost exclusively stream... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? Like everything else in life some folks have integrity and some don’t. Sometimes people suck. | |
| Mcintosh DAC1 Don’t know directly about the two you mention but the Denafrips Pontus II is clearly better than the DAC1 module in my MA8900. Was it worth the ~2k for the unit, interconnects and power cord? To me yes, better soundstage, imaging and dynamics. ... | |
| Here's to the temperate, the gentle, the moderates in audio I’ll throw out British Audiophile, I enjoy his videos. | |
| Quick System Building Pop Quiz: I’d go for option 2. I’m happy with my main system right now and I’d love to try some different gear. I’d really like to try tubes and some horn loaded speakers or some other high efficiency speaker. | |
| Adding a sub Oh and I would recommend getting two. I’ve done both the single and dual subs. Two is much better, better soundstage, imaging dynamics. It’s weird but two seem to make everything better. I’m sure there are folks on this forum who can explain i... | |
| Adding a sub I have a couple of Rel T5x subs that are great but don’t go as low as the SVS SB 1000 does. While I’ve never owned one, like @soix I’ve never heard of the transformer whine in them. Rhythmik subs get a lot of recommendations as well and are in ... | |
| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range Agree with those suggesting subs before dropping $15-$20k on new floor standers. A well integrated sub that goes to 20Hz sounds like the ticket and much cheaper. If it turns out not to work for you sell the subs and move on to a floor stander. | |
| Fritz Carbon 7 SE MKII I have Fritz’s Rev 7 SE so not what you’re asking about but they are great speakers and a great value. Wide, tall and deep soundstage, excellent imaging and they disappear. Very good detail and transients as well and are easy to listen to for long... | |
| "B&W" ? The & translates to & as an HTML encoded safe character. The encoding prevents malicious things from happening on a server. When it’s retrieved from a database and displayed in a browser sometimes it’s not decoded to the & chara... | |
| Best Covers The Wallflowers “Heroes” Stevie Ray Vaughn “Voodoo Child” Metallica “Turn the Page” | |
| Is My McIntosh C52 Pre-amp The Weak Link? Separate DAC gives you much more flexibility. | |
| Is My McIntosh C52 Pre-amp The Weak Link? I was revisiting this today and thought that you could always purchase used from somewhere like The Music Room or Upscale Audio. They have a great return policy so if you get something that doesn’t work well in your setup you can return it. Ther... | |
| Is My McIntosh C52 Pre-amp The Weak Link? I agree, if it’s the DA1 you can do much better. I have the DA1 in my MA8900. I now use a Pontus II that is much better. With the quality of your other components I would look at spending $5k or more on an external DAC that matches the level of... | |
| 2 Subwoofer setting Whatever sounds best in your room with your components. Not being cheeky, you just need to work at it a bit and see what sounds good to you. Sort out the phase first, then work out crossover and then volume. I had a Sunfire True Subwoofer Super Ju... |