mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| How many SACD / Blu-ray audio / DVD audio / etc do you own? About 300 | |
| Two Sources, One DAC I use a Bryston DAC3. It has every input imaginable including 4 HDMI inputs. I use the latter for SACD, because both my Opponents 105 and Sony 5400 can output the DSD layer of my numerous SACD collection into the HDMI of the DAC, | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? SACD was kept alive, albeit barely, by Classical Music. I have a few hundred along with a few dozen Blu Rays, both with and without Audio. Non Classical listeners don't have much reason to go after SACD playback. The 5400 in my collection ha... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? I paid around $1k for my 5400 when it was new. I’ve barely used in over 10 years. One odd thing it does is on SACD it seems to cut off the first two seconds of music. | |
| Playing CDs sounds better than Qobuz — dammit I think that CDs best streaming from Qobuz. Not that Qobuz is bad, but in my system there is a hair breadth of difference. You will see claims both ways, but frequently people are not comparing comparable components, perhaps a $300 CDP vs a $10K... | |
| Evaluating Classical Music Albums I beg to differ. Most recordings that I have purchased made in this century have audience noise present. Resolving systems can detect this well | |
| Evaluating Classical Music Albums Most orchestral releases are from concerts, due to the lack of funds for studio recordings. I prefer live performances anyway | |
| Meridian vs PS Audio I have no idea, having never heard the Meridian. 2 questions for you. 1) I believe the Meridian does MQA. If I recall it was the player that came out the same time MQA was released. Is that important to you? Can the DAC be accessed independen... | |
| Best CD player from this list Question for OP: given your stated tastes in music, I’m curious why you chose J.S. Bach as your Agon handle? | |
| Best CD player from this list I haven’t heard any of these players. I do have the Bryston DAC3 which uses the same DAC as the BDP1. I also have a Cambridge Audio streamer which uses at least one of the same DACs as one of the CA players. The Bryston has by far the better DAC | |
| Aqua 'La Diva' ($9k) or Gryphon 'Ethos' ($39k) versus. Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 T ($3k)? Charles dad criticized the Porsche-VW analogy as old, but that doesn’t make it less valid. Both vehicles have the essentials required to get a passenger from Point A to Point B—4 tires, internal combustion engine, battery, brakes, etc. Just beca... | |
| Fear and Loathing in the Audiophile community. Funny and real I participate in Classical Music forums and occasionally the threads will veer into audiophilia . There are a couple of posters that seem like reasonable, tolerant pepole while discussing music who then become raving lunatics if anyone challenges... | |
| 2022 is almost here. Why are you here? I joined the site because for as long as I can remember I have had an interest in audio, and when Joined everyone I knew thought that the crappy Apple Ear Buds that came with the iPod were so astounding. | |
| Just getting into Streaming, need help and advice OP Are you sure the problem isn’t with Prime itself? I don’t use the HD service but in years past when I purchased many CDs from Amazon they offered a simultaneous mp3 version so I amassed quite a collection. When I try to play these from my... | |
| SPDIF vs. AES/EBU Sound Quality? +1 those are inherently different cables. How that effects sound will depend on what you are connecting the Lumin to. If for example their S/PDIF isn't well implemented, relative to AES/EBU, then there will be a difference. Not being a Lumin ow... |