mahler123
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| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet @goofyfoot I realize that the market for SACD, which was pretty much the Classical Music Industry only, is collapsing, and can't blame Pentatone for shifting, but they and BIS were the two stalwarts of SACD | |
| How to connect my Cell Phone to my DAC?!?! There may be something in the Spotify Connect app that isn’t allowing it to play into your DAC. Products advertise if they are compatible with Spotify Connect. Hegel probably is, thus everything works there, but your external DAC may not. So the p... | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet Nice to see, but it is a pity that Pentatone continues to move away from SACD hybrid recordings | |
| Direct Drive I enjoyed the Rega P5, which I owned for about 5 years, on discs when the speed instability issues weren’t so prominent. Although the Moonlight Sonata sounded terrible, as noted, some other works such as the Second Bartok Piano Concerto really sna... | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet That lends a new meaning to the phrase "Going Postal" | |
| MoFi controversy @tomcy6 So what is the significance of MoFi claiming that there final conversion to analog comes from DSD instead of PCM? 1) to me this is a tacit admission that DSD is at least as good, if not better, than pure analog, if MoFi feels that st... | |
| Direct Drive @sokogear With all due respect, been there, done that, about a decade ago. Details a bit fuzzy now. There was a (red?) status light that would go on with every use, stopped going on. I took it out of the system. As previously mentioned, thi... | |
| Warming up digital in my setup I’ve had a few DACs with the ESS Sabre Chips, and while they are amazingly detailed they can also lead to glassy glare. Part of the fault has to be with the implementation, as I owned two DACs simultaneously with the same chip and the difference w... | |
| Direct Drive @best-groove read further down the thread | |
| Direct Drive I had the TTU. $400 wasted. I used it from day one. It broke I took it back to the dealer and they couldnt fix it even though it was under warranty. It sounded the same with and without. | |
| Streamer Upgrade I respectfully disagree with @blisshifi in that I don’t think you have to spend much to get great streaming. The Node is an ok entry point but the Cambridge Audio CXN 60 is a staggeringly good value at about $1200. It has a beefed up power suppl... | |
| Bryston BDA-3.14? @jank There were a few threads on this. I gave up on the BDP 3 as a streamer for the reasons you cited. It sounds great butI found it to be unusable. The DAC is great | |
| Direct Drive So I just bought the 1500 from Music Direct. I live in Chicago so I will pick it up probably next weekend, as I will take advantage of proximity to avoid the potential ravages of the shipping company and the rapacious Porch Pirates. This will give... | |
| Direct Drive @yoyoyaya I agree with everything that you say. I prefer digital, and have many posts on the site detailing why, but I have deliberately refrained from recycling these comments here in the analog section asI have no wish to reignite that top... | |
| Direct Drive @yoyoyaya I have no vinyl at present. There are about a dozen Lps that I am eyeing because they are not available digitally. Are you viewing the 1500 as entry level? And given that analog will always be a secondary source, I don’t really want... |