knghifi
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| PS audio Perfect Wave DAC MKII or Metrum Octave One thing more. I believe that any up-sampling/over-sampling, filtering, etc should be done in the computer and not in the DAC.The drawback I see is the need to send more data to the DAC. | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Knghifi - not everything - I've found Home Depot MDF is good for shelves :-)Good point :-)It would be nice to now how the various streaming devices actually stream data, then the impact of good network cables would be easier to assess.For instance... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Vicdamone, Thanks for the tip. Williewonka, old are Cat5. New according to AQ website, Cat7, 300 MHz??. There's enough bandwidth in Cat5 100 MHz so don't think bandwidth is why AQ is superior. I'm only running AQ from router to DAC.My setup is ver... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Williewonka, my AQ Cinnamon ethernet cables have ~24 hrs and the improvement is DRAMATIC over generic cable. I took MF advice and bought middle grade. It cost me < $300 for 3 cables from Audio Advisor so very inexpensive experiment. :-):-) | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Let's try Michael Fremer interview link again. Michael Fremer Interview http://www.analogplanet.com/content/analogplanet-editor-appears-scott-wikinsons-home-theater-geeks-podcast-0 | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house With all the hype, I demoed a fully loaded (volume control, XLR outputs ..) Lamp L4 in my system for a week. Overall I found the sound too forward, aggressive and hard for my taste. Lukas discourages tube rolling and stock tubes (forgot the type) ... | |
| EAR 890 and KT120 Thanks! EAR 890 is one of my favorite tube amps. Maybe Tim de Paravicini will build something with KT120?? | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Tboooe,With wireless, sounds like something is missing, not as continuous, coherent, and vivid. In theory if the buffer is big enough, it shouldn't be a problem, but ...IE: Watching a video in a browser, flash player buffers data to avoid interrup... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? knghifi - GET OUTTA HERE!!! Rolling ethernet cables - really? :-)Every cable in my system makes a DIFFERENCE, why NOT ethernet? Hopefully they will arrive next week ...I saw Michael Fremer's Newport Show interview where he mentioned AQ ethernet ca... | |
| Upgrading from Thiel CS3.6 to Avalon Thiel and Avalon sound is 135' different so only you can decide if worth while change by comparing them. | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? I have changed the settings to point to my NAS folderYou can change this in settings, but if you close iTunes, the next time you start it, it resets the library folder back to the default folder (at least on the iMac platform - another bloody wart... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? 08-08-13: WilliewonkaOne last thing - Audirvana loads the entire track into memory before playing,so there tends to be a slight delay on the HD tracks, but then you can use wireless without any dropouts while playingInteresting stuff Williewonka. ... | |
| PSU for QuteHD I had a lightspeed attenuator and it's good for the $$. I prefer the sound with a battery PS over wall wart. | |
| PSU for QuteHD CIAUDIO VDC5 MKII arrived for Touch (ONLY use digital out to DAC) this week and it made a HUGE improvement. Typical improvements with higher quality PS. Quieter, image more stable, sharper and control, more transparent, more detail especially the ... | |
| Interconnects--power cords? Audioquest Sky--find it fits best between pre and power--but something seems a bit too "airy"This was EXACTLY my experience with AQ Sky too ... had 2 XLR pairs in my system. The sound was unnatural and everything sounded similar. You are mixing an... |