jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Can (or should) you “Reclock” a Bluesound Node? i tried a w4s reclocker on the digital output of a node 2i early on when i was climbing the learning curve streaming... could not hear a difference with and withoutdifferent experience when using a stock sonos streamer... reclocking definitely imp... | |
| Best Integrated that you've heard under $5k I believe the H390 is very close to $6k.'street price' is right around 5 grand - i bought mine new from a dealer last fall for just under that | |
| Best Integrated that you've heard under $5k integrated, that i have had personally, under 5 grand - would be a hegel h390 (using an outboard dac) | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system good post and topic... it would be interesting to see what people here have as systems, and note their three top eval tracks... be pretty revealing as to what the person values | |
| How to listen /audition at audio shows? my 2 centsin general, @tvad has nailed it, you can’t really assess or compare gear at shows... wayyy too many variables/unknowns - shows are fun to see the gear ’in the flesh’, meet people behind the gear, and at best, provide a very very rough sc... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? reading through the various responses, the key points to this i think are- car audio matters if one spends a lot of time in the car, even if the sound quality target cannot approach a proper in-house system- cars themselves are used for different ... | |
| DAC connection: which type gives highest fidelity? to my understanding the older models actually were ok, it is the newer models that have this problem (by the time i experienced the issue my ares 2 was long gone, so cannot comment there)for example, my original pontus made in 2019 received the no... | |
| Avalon Acoustics they are absolutely wonderful, top shelf speakers, sonically and aestheticallyas usual, you need to use them in a proper assembled system with well matched ancillary gear | |
| DAC connection: which type gives highest fidelity? @bobbydd a word of caution to youthe dena dacs’ input card has issues receiving a hi res signal (above redbook) from the bluesound node/node 2i (pontus, ares 2, gaia)it is the ONLY family of dacs that has input compatibility issues with the node d... | |
| DAC connection: which type gives highest fidelity? as usual @twoleftears and @ghdprentice get to the heart of the matter | |
| Avalon Acoustics as far as i know they are still operating, and focusing primarily on overseas higher end markets | |
| SMSL DACs i would second @sbank ’s recommendation of the soekris dacs - like denafrips, an over achiever at the pricehave had the 1421, now the 1541 - both excellent, subtly different presentation than the dena pontus, but no less musical | |
| SMSL DACs i found the topping d90 dry and flat, if quite detailed, when i tried itdena pontus vastly superior in imaging, tonality and timber imo | |
| NAD C658 or Node 2i into Wyred 4 Sound DAC-2 DSD SE? i doubt that move will be an improvementw4s dac2 (assuming it is working correctly) is sonically more pure than a nad 658 imothere is probably improvements to be had elsewhere in your system | |
| VSI75 with mileage 1600 hrs??? omg -- it will catch fire any minute now... :) |