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| Chord M-Scaler and Should I Want One? The fellow reports M-Scaler works well with Mytek Brooklyn Dac (but not Denafrips Ares ii) in several areas: (1) vast increase in SS depth / width and image focus (2) increase in low end quality w/ deeper bass and better texture and (3) more natur... | |
| High resolution audio on a PC questions Also, I have an Onkyo TX-8255 audio receiver (it’s completely analog). Would I hear an improvement if I ran the signal from my PC’s headphone jack through the receiver? (it doesn’t have a line out). Sorry if these are stupid questions. Probably... | |
| Comparing external DAC to CD player DAC I also had Marantz CD-67se. Not one but two that I purchased 25 years ago from a sale as far as I could recall. The SQ out of CD-67se is good but nothing special really to write home about. Both of them quit a while ago. I replace one of them ... | |
| What’s your latest high-end audio purchase? Wharfedale Evo 4.2. | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? @overthemoon Speaker cables I compared Blue Jean Cables to Audio Quest Rocket 33 and Kimber Kable 12TC. I preferred the Blue Jean Cables in that comparison because the Kimber Kable 12TCs had harshness in the higher frequencies and the Audio Ques... | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? I had Loxjie a30 ($180) + Sony sscs5 ($90). Resolving treble and non-sluggish bass with reasonably large soundstage. I enjoyed it. | |
| Best High Current amplifiers stable into low impedances @jasonbourne52 Perreaux 2150B - 340/680/920 wpc @ 8/4/2 ohms. The manual says 200 wpc into 8 ohms. Could you confirm that? Could you articulate its sound traits? Its damping factor sounds reasonably high but the continuous current of 10 ampere... | |
| Weak Link in chain as I upgrade from mid-fi? Stick to your gun. SF Sonetto 1 is an excellent pair of speakers. Ignore some forumers' dissing here. I am not sure about the SQ of the internal DAC of SA20 or Node 2i. I have heard audiophile comments about the so-so sound quality of the inte... | |
| Opinions before purchasing Wharfedale Evo 4.2 now on sale for $999. Highly raved over the internet reviewers, reliable ones. For a small room like yours, you probably do not need sub. Room gain will help on low end extension. | |
| My Major System Upgrades in 2022 and Impact of Each Wow, you were doing a great value engineering. Just on the speakers, you have saved yourself over $30k. Congratulte. Question: why did you go with the older model d2 instead of d4? Is d2 better in sound? | |
| Indentical measurments = Identical performance? I saw people making unfair comments here discrediting Stereophile in a similar fashion on ASR. Stereophile supplements their extensive listening with measurements, while ASR occasionally adds de minimis listening test in the end of measurements. ... | |
| Severe short term audio distortion when watching Netflix +1 Roku. Choose the ethernet direct-connection option instead of wi-fi connection. | |
| A rookie with 10K, seeking advise I will spend money wisely by adding a subwoofer to your system to begin with. I had Linton that, as you know, the low end goes down to 40 Hz. When I pair the nimble bass from Linton with a fast subwoofer (down to 24 Hz), it really enlightens my ... | |
| OK...here's another tweak that really works Interesting! Burn-in with noise is better than with music. Why? Is there scientific proof? It is like breaking in a brand-new vehicle with harsh rather than gental driving behavior. | |
| Many of us want to Changegrade instead of Upgrading Yep many of audiophiles were doing it already. I had 3 amp/int. amp, 3 sets of speakers and two DACs, which render 18 combinations. Of course not every combination is equally satisfactory but even a subset of those give sufficient rotations to f... |