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| esoteric products zephyr24069,You have a srunning system with Esoteric source/electronics and others. I can imagine how much better the N-05 would sound in your system with the Rubidium clock. Cheers!J. | |
| esoteric products Jon2020: How do you like the N-05? What are you using in terms of NAS or local/remote cloud storage? cloud storage?Zephyr24069,The N-05 has turned out to be an amazing surprise. Its usb implementation has improved by leaps and bounds over that of ... | |
| esoteric products This is sad news indeed. Anyway, I have traded in my K-01 player for a non-mechanical dac/streamer in the form of the N-05 when an opportunity came up recently. Having ripped all my cd's to flac, I can now dispense with the transport.One would exp... | |
| DACs that upsample to DSD internally? PS Audio Directstream, EMM Labs, dCS are ones I can think of.These 3 companies are certainly recognised by audiophiles and audio journalists all over the world for making great sounding dac’s. It matters not what chips they use or whether they con... | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment Only 7 hardware manufacturers have signed up so far :-http://www.mqa.co.uk/customer/our-partnersNot much to wonder why. Main reasons are :-1. Licensing fees from recording studios, artists and hardware manufacturers2. Stringent hardware/software r... | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment I'm curious if there's really a compelling story to go with format x or y and whether we could find it among these free to download files. None, really. | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment Hi Erik,Coming back to the title of the thread, I have listened to PCM vs MQA files from the 2L website via the mqa-capable Meridian 808v6 player in my home system. I found that the 808v6 renders the PCM version beautifully, and there is an increm... | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment Maybe it’s you that needs knowledge or professional help, as one of your statements suggests, "The ripped cd file sounds better than the cd spinning in the super heavy transport of my old Esoteric K-01." Passing judgment without having listened to... | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment OP - " I only posted what was supposedly for an ideal file, not an ideal dac. "+1, Erik. | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment "....forum cop."Hmm...the irony of it all, judging from history, that is. I have said this before and I will say it again, you need professional help. | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment The title of this thread is :-" DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment"OP - " I only posted what was supposedly for an ideal file, not an ideal dac. "If someones wishes to talk about dac types, please start a new thread. When will this ... | |
| Metrum Acoustics Pavane or ESOTERIC N-05 or ESOTERIC K-05X? Hi audioabc,I actually sold the K-01 for the N-05 and have stopped spinning discs since ripping all of them to flac. Now I play all my music, both hires and redbook, via usb from a computer.As you already have a large hires collection, the obvious... | |
| Metrum Acoustics Pavane or ESOTERIC N-05 or ESOTERIC K-05X? Hi audioabc,Yes, the N-05 is indeed a pleasant surprise to me too. I would never have expected that Esoteric has improved the sound and the usb implementation to such an extent as to render the K-01 so deficient in comparison to the N-05. The new ... | |
| Metrum Acoustics Pavane or ESOTERIC N-05 or ESOTERIC K-05X? Hi audioabc,I have not heard the Metrum and so cannot comment on it.I have the N-05 which is now past 1000 hours of burn-in. It shares the same AK 4490 chip as the K-05X. I find the N-05 beating my previous K-01 which I used for almost 3 years, in... | |
| Berkeley Alpha Reference run direct You can try bringing home a high quality loaner preamp to find out. |