jaytor
Responses from jaytor
| Is the Roon Nuceus device a good streamer? I originally set up my system with the Roon core running on my PC and purchased a Bryston BDP-2 (with upgraded audio card) to use as a streamer. I also have a Node2i to compare, and the Bryston sounds a bit better. This spring, I built a Roon ROCK... | |
| Projector comparisons I'm now on my 7th projector since getting into home theater in the early 90's. In the mid-90's, I was feeling flush from an investment that paid off and bought a Vidikron Vision One and Snell&Wilcox video processor - total investment about $10... | |
| Roon - Sample rate conversion? The nice thing about Roon is that it is easy to experiment. I have found that using setting sample rate conversion to Max PCM Rate (Power of 2) with Precise Minimum Phase can provide some subtle improvements on many recordings. I'm using a Denafri... | |
| Qobuz or Tidal? I've got both and slightly prefer qobuz SQ but if I had to pick one, I'd go with tidal because most of the music I like is available. I listen mostly to jazz, folk, classic rock, alt pop, electronica. Very little classical, country, rap. | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide @mitch2 - yes, my mistake on the model number. It's the NEI-3001 Mk III that I ordered. | |
| USB sucks As for jitter from servers and transports.. Asynchronous transfer is designed to eliminate that. The DAC asks for data packets at its pace and clocks them on down the line using its internal clocks. Any jitter from the source is therefore disreg... | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide Good to hear. Thanks. | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide @stringreen - While I agree that balanced interconnects impart less of their sonic signature on the sound, and thus sound more similar to each other, I have still been able to notice a difference between every balanced interconnect I've tried - s... | |
| USB sucks @steakster - I think what @rixthetrick was getting at is that any signal on a cable is inherently analog. While it represents digital data, the signal does not instantaneously transition from one voltage to another to represent 0s and 1s. The inte... | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide @dgarretson - Thanks for the pointer regarding the Eizz connectors. These look excellent. I've ordered a set to use with whichever cables I decide on. @teo_audio - Thanks for the pointers. I don't think I've visited the Audio Sensibility site befo... | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide @brownsfan - Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check them out. I assume you re referring to Signal Cable Silver Resolution. I've had mixed results with all-silver interconnects. I had a set of fairly long Silver Audio Hyacinth XLR interconnects a wh... | |
| Burn In... the Age Old Question, Cables, Components, and Speakers I'll try to give a serious response. From my experience, almost everything I have purchased changes at least a little after some operating time. Some things take much longer than others. My Denafrips Terminator DAC, for example, and the Nord Hypex... | |
| USB sucks The idea of a USB "reclocker" is kind of hilarious. The only thing the USB clock is used for is to transfer the data. A $5 usb peripheral can reliably read USB data. USB can tolerate a LOT of jitter and still reliably transfer the data. The USB cl... | |
| USB sucks Of the various inputs supported by DACs on the market today (SPDIF, AES3, Optical, I2S, USB, Ethernet), only USB and Ethernet provide an asynchronous input. Using an interface that requires the clock signal to be generated by an eternal device (se... | |
| Vintage Krell I owned a pair of MDA-300 monoblocks in the late 80's, early 90's. They generated a lot of heat, but I loved the sound. My wife convinced me to sell them because of the heat and high power bills. Selling these (and my Cello Audio Palette) are my b... |