mahgister
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| What makes a DAC so expensive? When the S.Q. of my system was very bad, i listened to my favorite best music: Bach.... It was possible to concentrate then on music not troubled by the bad sound...When the S.Q. goes from bad to acceptable, i go on with all style and different ki... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? It’s all hype. There is no challenge to getting a clean accurate signal to the preamp. We don’t need to worry about dedicated power supplies or dampening vibrations. Just consider for a second that all that is needed is a $2 chip part. Amen.....A... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Audio is not about an upgrading race, not about buying costlier components at all...This is a truism, or a common place evidence that costlier gear can be better....Audio is about creating the best conditions to experience a good S.Q.Thinking that... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings OR believe those who claim to tame without divulging any specifics. my thread journey has 20 pages...Specifics and idea are there, peanuts costs....The specifics are simple to formulate:mechanical embeddings, electrical grid noise floor, and acou... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Violin, and piano are very good test for audio system...For me with basic good electronic components, the day i was able to stand violins in mass, this day only comes after controlling vibrations, decreasing the noise floor of the electrical grid,... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? I bought it in a lucky streak of bids....But if you look for one used, for about 150 dollars you can get one....Christophe Mariac is the designer of this dac.... His price were upgrade just after i bought mine....I read a lot before buying this da... | |
| Springs under turntable Relating to fine tuning the load by weight, you may want to consider using a suitably sized and shaped container appropriately filled with sand or crushed rock. Good idea... :) | |
| Are all Audiophiles masocists? For the first part of your post i will say that the price to pay to be free, really free, is consciousness of our own slavery, to begin with ourself and at the end to end with ourself....But in between we are suspended between polarities, and extr... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? I have choosen my dac on the basis of the fact that his design is minimal....Not a cell phone dac but not too far i guess with internal battery to lower the noise... (suffice to inspect the internals to see the minimalistic approach)Every electron... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? A dedicated audio room is way much cheaper to treat and controls....Mine with 2 windows relatively small with irregular geometry, cost peanuts and the results are astounding, superior to many upgrading of my gear...But a living room, being a commo... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? We think the same then for this matter....My main point, coming from my audiophile listening experiments and experience, is what people think about the sound of their dac, often comes from a wrong mechanical,electrical and acoustical embeddings of... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? They aren’t even audibly transparent. Some are more audibly transparent than others.... It is a relative quality for which the criterial judgement is linked to the perception of a tonal timbre instrument accuracy....The more accurate an instrumen... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? If it results in distortion then it is measurable. If it is above a certain level it will be audible. If it is audible then it’s a lousy DAC sell it to an audiophile and move on. DACs that are well engineered DO NOT have sound signatures they are... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? I am not a fan of shutting down others voices. DJones is technically correct. The measurements are what they are. The difficulty in refuting his absolutes is that “transparency and measurements” does not always sound so great or the same. I have ... | |
| Springs under turntable I may experiment with a couple springs under my phono or DAC but they will have their work cut out to beat the current porcelain ex ham radio 1" inverted cones under them right now. They are perhaps the tool to use for a dac better than springs..... |