lalitk

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What are you streaming tonight?
Don’t Take Your Love From Me - Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra   
Room correction room system vs ears….
“So, I splashed out and spent more than I wanted” @thomasintrouble If there are no acoustic treatments in your listening space then definitely try room correction software to fine tune the sound.  
What are you streaming tonight?
Tricotism - Tony Overwater Trio   
432 EVO
@firstgrowth I agree with you. We are here to share our experiences. My post to @tjassoc above was in direct response to his post where he has reported loosing considerable amount of money over a gear that quite didn’t pan out to his expectation... 
432 EVO
“Anyone with Innuos Statement experience - please share” @tjassoc  Have you contacted a Innuos dealer for a demo? Any reputed dealer should have the Statement readily available for demo.   
Aurender N200
“When I play a MQA track into my non MQA DAC it identifies the sample rate as 96k on the DAC but the Aurender says “44.1k MQA” @oddiofyl With MQA license, the Aurender MQA Core decoder in N200 can only unfold first layer of MQA files, thus the ... 
Cabling Recommendations
@mrrobot  I would steer clear of Nordost or Transparent Cables. My recommendation would be to speak with Albert Porter. He owns Focal and his advice would be spot on the cabling. I have spoken to him few times, very knowledgeable and great guy! h... 
USB cables conducor - help
“Step #1: ditch using a general purpose computer as a streamer  Step #2: experiment with USB cables. Slowly ” +1, @thyname  @ortodox  If you are not in a position to take step #1, then use a USB isolator to eliminate noise from your PC. You ca... 
Streamer/DAC - Where is the value?
“The weak link here seems to be the Cambridge unit. ” @jpearson3131  What is about CXN 851N you don’t like? Do you have a another source like CD player or vinyl that you enjoy listening through MA9000. I used to own 851N and it’s a pretty decent... 
聖HIJIRI Users thread
@jafant  Please reach out to Colin @gestalt for pricing.   
Sternklang Cables
@willgolf It is my understanding that Sternklang uses silver soldering for banana terminations. I wanted to avoid that thus used my own Banana Plugs. Here is the link, https://www.vhaudio.com/eti-link-banana.html  
Sternklang Cables
@willgolf  You’re correct. The bare copper ends serves as spade connectors. I ordered mine with bare ends and used my own ETI solderless bananas on one end.   
Hans Beekhuyzen - Why High Rez?
@vonhelmholtz Thanks for posting the link to Hans B video. I am subscriber and enjoy his channel immensely. I am believer in non-oversampled high resolution music as long as it’s done properly i.e. mastering!  
Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier?
Benchmark is mid-fi at best. Good enough for 2nd, 3rd or desktop / office systems.   
聖HIJIRI Users thread
@jafant  I compared both entry level and top tier 聖HIJIRI Cables in my system and decided to go with top tier.