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| Connection Question Unless you have a USB input on your DAC/AMP you don't without some sort of digital to digital converter like a Mutec MC3+USB or Sonore Ultra Digital. | |
| Clocking: again! Any improvement you make to a Word Clock or Master Clock will pay off big time, like a dedicated LPS or cable upgrades. How can bits be just be bits when you put a $3.5k clock cable on a Master/ Word Clock? It's just crazy amazing! | |
| Playing CDs sounds better than Qobuz — dammit @soix Everything is going to sound different, better or worse. Different CD players are going to sound different but one thing I can honestly say is that a computer, NUC or Raspberry POS is never going to sound as good as a quality dedicated stora... | |
| Aurender N100 internal hard drive or USB external drive? Buy the Samsung EVO 4TB SSD. Put it into the tray at the rear and using the Aurender app format it. Then plug in your HDD with your stored music and copy it to the SSD using the Aurender app. Easy. 10%+ improvement in SQ. | |
| Aqua 'La Diva' ($9k) or Gryphon 'Ethos' ($39k) versus. Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 T ($3k)? @ghdprentice Before I decided on purchasing my Aurender N20 I exhaustively explored every avenue for ripping/streaming/storage. I auditioned Aurilic, Weiss, Lumin, Naim everything basically. I was drawn to the Aurender ACS100 initially because it... | |
| Aqua 'La Diva' ($9k) or Gryphon 'Ethos' ($39k) versus. Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 T ($3k)? Yes the Aurender ACS100 is a great CD ripper, used it to rip my whole collection after I found it better than my computer rips. | |
| dCS Bartok DAC - Interesting Video Review I've followed DCS ever since they launched the Elgar DAC which was big bucks at the time and always found them underwhelming to the amazement of various dealers. Their FPGA "Cool Aid' doesn't seem to have been updated in any great tech to my know... | |
| Musical Fidelity M3SCD My suggestion would be to go and listen to it if you can. However I've owned several MF products including DACs and they have all been excellent and very well built. | |
| SPDIF vs. AES/EBU Sound Quality? Yes, IMHO AES/EBU will provide the best quality up to 24/192 kHz and single rate DSD, for higher sampling rates you'll need USB or I2s. I've never compared it to I2s but it's been better than USB in every comparison I've done. | |
| For All You Musetec MH-DA005 DAC Fans I remember @soix said he has a Musician Pegasus | |
| Changes in DAC Presentation - Need Advice If you are not using XLR connections on your pre-amp maybe give that a try, because many of these new dac companies favour XLR, but I'm still sure it's a break-in issue. | |
| Changes in DAC Presentation - Need Advice Sounds like it's breaking in, assuming you've had it less than a month or so. | |
| Streaming music sounds better late at night. Is this just me? This has been going on for ages with Radio. Radio always sounds better at night even in the car. Since the major factor removed is the Sun and another factor added, the Moon, both of these are probably involved by influencing electrical noise. I... | |
| Upgrade to dcs bartok. You would get a much better sound if you got an Aurender N20 or N30 if you can stretch that far and use the Sim Audio for DAC/Pre until you can get a decent Pre-amp (Pass Labs?). Then if you're still searching upgrade the DAC (Musetec 005?). Go a... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I just came across this article regarding Rick Schultz modding the 004. If Rick was involved it must have got his respect. Rick was the CEO of Virtual Dynamics a company that made some fantastic cables. He made a one off XLR IC for me many years a... |