mahler123
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| Difference between ESS Sabre Burr Brown Wolfson DACs There is more to the quality of a DAC than just the chip. Power supply, for one. So the answer to your question is a bit more complicated.. | |
| PC+Dac or Streamer Many excellent posts here. I can just add that based on the last post the OP basically just needs a DAC and a music management program. For 2K there are lots of great DAC choices and multiple threads here explored that. I would get a DAC that i... | |
| DAC upgrade The Benchmark is a good recommendation but be forewarned will probably sound very different than the Jolida. Mytek Brooklyn will also be in your price range and be very different from the Jolida. I have a Bryston DAC3 which currently goes for ar... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Kahlenzhow is the sq with Idagio? | |
| Warm, lush and dark ... Dac up to 1.2K I have the Mytek Manhatten I and would not describe it as warm, lush, or dark. More like a antiaircraft searchlight and and an XRay machine combined in data retrieval—if it’s on the recording, you will hear it, now matter how submerged. Beautifu... | |
| Audirvana vs Roon I didn’t try Amarra but Roon crashed my library. I ran Audirvana for a while and it sounds very good but now I prefer actual CDs or using either Bluesound or my Oppo players with my NAS. I have a feeling that to get the best sonic results with R... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp +1 with Ivan.My experience has been that moving CDs to hard drive results in a slight decrease in sq. Perhaps Ivan has identified the reason. Streaming at “CD quality “ takes sq down another two notches.cD replay is currently at a really high le... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. @stevecham who cares if the cutting head has to make a continuous path, if the the information contained in that path is from a discontnous waveform? Vinylistas are reacting to some byproduct of the whole vinyl reproduction chain that they ident... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. I have a Bryston DAC3 which thanks to Trump’s trade war with Canada is now slightly over your budget, but you still might be able to pick up a demo for 3K. I love it but I haven’t heard the BDA 2; but I’ve read the main difference between the two... | |
| Roon vs Bluesound When you say Roon, you need to specify what hardware you are going to use with it. Roon started out as a software program and now they offer dedicated hardware to run the program on. Purely as a software program, Roon beats the pants off of ever... | |
| Step up from Bluesound Vault 2, next move? Have you made any decision? I just read an article in the British mag Hi Fi Choice where they did a group test and awarded the palm to the Auralic Aries Mini, which probably costs the same as the Node2, which frustratingly was not included in the... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. On a more practical level, vinylistas don’t seem to care that most current lp issuues Of Classic albums use digital masters, due to the sticky tape phenomenon. Vinyl bigots like Fremer and Dudley were embarrassingly silent on this after touting m... | |
| Non Oversampling DACs I guess I don’t know what digital grain sounds like. I sure know what analog schmutz sounds like and love digital for the absence of it. I also know that DSD tends to sound as natural as any sound reproduction can, and DSD samples a pulse about ... | |
| Non Oversampling DACs Stupid question: why should over sampling be a bad thing? | |
| Modern AV Receiver vs Amp / Pre-Amp separates? Genuine question That would be my bias as well. Now, my newest AVR are 12 years old, and maybe the best of the newest would do better....I am thinking of getting a newer AVR to go with my new TV and I might just plug in in the two channel system first just to giv... |