kairosman
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| Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went? @theaudioamp sorry I guess I misunderstood the thrust of your post. IME there has never been a better time to be into hifi whether you want to spend $1K or $1M. | |
| Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went? +1 theaudioamp exactly The quality of digital audio improves every day. The quality of budget gear improves every day. The quality of uber expensive gear like Boulder or Magico improves every day. The only category that is stagnant is midfi an... | |
| New Dynaudio Heritage Special..?..! Have a pair of HS driven by a CODA CSIB and the pairing is sublime. Cavernous soundstage depth if you pull the speakers out into the room. They do benefit from the CODAs current for dynamic bass impact. Absolute necessity to have them bolted to th... | |
| Recommend me a Class A Integrated Amp (or sound like Class A amp) +1 on CODA and Krell integrateds Pass Labs INT 25 is a good choice for effcient speakers $7500 in thr US no idea in Singapore | |
| Best Stereo Upgrade Value Weakest link is the place to start. But if I had to choose, the source is the more important foundation than speakers. A $10K source with a $5K amp will sqeeze every drop of performance out of a $2K speaker and make it sound like a $5K speaker, r... | |
| DAC diminishing returns To get the most from the Pontus you need a streamer transport like a Lumin U2 and the Denafrips DDC like an Iris or Hermes running I2S to the Pontus, otherwise you are driving it or even the Bifrost in 2nd gear. | |
| This is good Schiit... @audiofreak32 if "a great deal" is your lodestar in chasing better sound you will always be citing the infamous excuse of "the law of diminishing returns" that disappointed midfi enthusiasts make when their "great deals" don't result in significan... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? Your Luxman integrated deserves a quality digital front end, if your DAC is on par with the Luxman, purchase as follows: ADOT MCO1 fiber optic kit LHY 25A LPS with dual 5v outputs Uptone Audio EtherREGEN switch Audioquest Forest ethernet cable... | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range Lampizator Baltic 3 is very good in a different way than my Lumin P1, which is the new little brother to the X1. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I am having issues with the 005 unable to lock on DSD 128 below BW06 DPLL, do I have a ethernet streaming rate bottleneck? I am at 150 Mbps which is max over copper in my building/neighborhood. | |
| Integrated Amp Suggestions CODA CSiB is awesome and so is Gryphon 120. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns agreed it is indeed a small box with mostly poor sounding gear although i will admit the D90SE sounds good just a little sterile. @yyzsantabarbara ya the 005 so far in my system is a big winner on par with my Terminator II albeit with a diff... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I suspect that part of why the guys on the ASR forum excoriate guys like me with "too much money and not enough brains" is that they don't have the money to buy higher end gear. This might sound unduly snobby but IME, system resolution generally g... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @lordmelton no offense taken, you could be right, I might have old-man hearing (I am 59). The guys over on ASR certainly have suggested as much more than once. BTW the dude on here who has returned his 005 is not a hero over on ASR, all he has sai... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Err my last post which contained an expletive was deleted by the moderator, the main point of that post was to support @toddk31 and his return of his 005 on principal based on the fact he purchased it partly?/mainly? because of the Jinbo’s publish... |