lanx0003
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| DAC recommendations You have gotten a pair of top notch speakers that was highly appraised by Stereophile especially known for its soundstage, expensive / high quality amp, state of the art streamer and a highly hyped DAC. I do not understand why you settle down wit... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! @clearthinker All right, I give up. I was being cynical and sort of tagging along playing dumb. I apologize for the invented dust "theory". Lately, there are several dumb threads like this, such as comparing digital to the cheap TT/analoug equ... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! @clearthinker Not every cable I have has perfect insulation. I am frugal, not because I do not believe in expensive cables. Every time I clean the dust, immediately I hear the sound improvements just as claimed by the OP... Ha! Why nobody thi... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! Audiogoners won’t joke around here. They took music listening a serious business. Dust usually does not conduct electricity. However, when the moisture in the air "adsorbs" and forms a thin film on the surface of dust particles, the dust layer on ... | |
| Potential upgrade path… Donate the money to charity. That will elevate your value of living to a higher level that you enjoy music more from your current system. | |
| Music Servers/External Drives SSD with max. data transfer rates over 800 mbps. This will work much better than 7200 rpm HDD with only 160 mbps in terms of indexing on the first setup or later update. No moving parts inside SSD makes it less volunerable and hence longer life ... | |
| IFi Zen Stream with Qobuz I like Qobuz better than Tidal primarily because, although they both have similar number of songs (90 millions), the Qobuz has more newer productions. For example, Qobuz has the albums of Beady Belle, the female singer I like, after 2020 but lacks... | |
| DAC league table When budget is tight, iFi Zen Stream is imho the best bang to the buck. Both usb and rca digital outputs has been purified to eradicate the jitter so it really sounds great. People have reported its SQ is comparable to 7 or 8 times price gear. ... | |
| IFi Zen Stream with Qobuz As of today (12/23/2022), the free version, Mconnect Player Lite, is working smoothly with ifi ZS in the AIO mode on iphone for streaming music from Qobuz. It has most of features you need such as gapless play. If you need track sorting which I do... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) Just wonder how many forumers here actually place an order for SP10? | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? These days it is really hard to come across a "bad" dac acoustically by listening. Maybe that is why the asr solely rely on the measurement possibly because all dacs sound the same to his ears. Just maybe... | |
| Primaluna. Evo 400 - bass issues The tube amplifier like Evo 400 has in general higher output impedance which gives lower damping factor. For example, in its ultralinear mode the output impedance measured 2.3Ω, giving a damping factor (DF) of 3.4, while in its triode mode the DF... | |
| 2.1 Stereo System for TV Listening My two main speakers were 14 ft apart with minor toe-in for music listening. As such the person not sitting in the middle listening position could not get clear dialouge when watching movie without a Center channel... | |
| 2.1 Stereo System for TV Listening The 2.1 system for movie does not do well primarily because of the less clear / focus dialogue that was distributed to the central channel speaker in the 5.1 or 7.1 AVR system. Creating / wiring a "phantom" center channel into a 2.1 system is tric... | |
| Recommendations for good sounding streamer I went with the "ZS is better in SQ than Node" flow and was very happy with it. |