lordmelton
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| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Lots of haters..from Aurender to Musetec and beyond...lol. Been waiting 10 days for mine already and it hasn't shipped yet so there must be quite a long queue. After I've run my Musetec in for a month I'll give you my thoughts. | |
| Does IN Player Upsampling Benefit Older CDs More Than Newer CDs? Older '80s (bought in the '80s) CDs sometimes benefit from engaging De-Emphasis if you have the facility on your player or DAC, because they can sound muddy compared to more recent CDs. Otherwise there is no hard and fast rule it's all down to pe... | |
| New streamer or dac? @bikeboy52 One box solutions have been discussed but what is often overlooked is the cost savings in cables. Decent cables are going to cost around $1000+ DAC Power, IC and Digital $3000 Server Power $1000 Pre Amp Power, IC $2000 Power or Inte... | |
| New streamer or dac? @pwayland Regarding I2s I really believe it'll be the USB of the future but it hasn't received mainstream support yet. It's mainly PS Audio and the Chi-Fi companies that are in full support. AES/EBU, provided you have a quality setup it will USUA... | |
| Has anyone tried Napster? Maybe they're out of gaol now? | |
| New streamer or dac? @pwayland If you are using a PSA DS DAC with built in streaming card you have already done away with the I2s unless you want to connect a CDT by I2s. There is an advantage to having a streaming card in a DAC, Mola Mola and DCS do this also but I ... | |
| New streamer or dac? @bikeboy52 Aurender make fantastic products and from a convenience standpoint they are super easy to operate and even internet radio sounds great. Where they do excel is playing back ripped music SQ is superb and streaming is state of the art. T... | |
| Why no love for Apple Music? I prefer ripped CDs because I've bought just about everything that I want to listen to. But I suggest you audition all three services yourself and find out what's what, they all give free trials. However everyone says Qobuz is best but I've only t... | |
| Many CDs, no CD player (a question about ripping CDs) Ripped CDs in WAV sound better than streaming and FLAC. If you have a highly resolving system you will hear it in the texture and timbre. Also streaming brings in a whole other mess of issues such as internet noise etc. Ripped CDs onto an interna... | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? Class A is the absolute best sound quality and contrary to popular belief they don't get that hot. A Class A or A,A/B power amp paired with a tube preamp is always a good combo. | |
| Is a USB stick directly into ones streamer (renderer) better than streaming from a PC/NAS? @daveteauk Yes you are correct the only way to get a better sound would be if your streamer had a SSD internal hard drive. A USB is essentially a SSD. I recently bought a Sandisk 2TB portable SSD which is like a giant USB. Thing with USB is you ca... | |
| PS Audio DirectStream DAC measurements by ASR Didn't Johnny Darko buy one of these? Hope he knows if he pops the hood there's a giant steaming turd inside...lol | |
| Review: Holo May (L2) DAC and the Musetec Audio (LKS Audio) MH-DA005 DAC Compaired @jc4659 Thanks got an immediate reply with 10% off! | |
| Review: Holo May (L2) DAC and the Musetec Audio (LKS Audio) MH-DA005 DAC Compaired @melm Waiting for Shenzen Audio to get back to me. | |
| Weakest digital link: DAC - Streamer - Server? @alexb76 Basically Alex the guys that use dedicated streamers have "old school" beliefs that the source is the most important thing to sound quality. However more recently people believe that DACs are the most important. I used computer audio for... |