mapman
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| Is DSD download already an extinct format? "I have listened to 192/24 PCM versus double DSD of the same material using SACDs as the source and double DSD wins hands down. "Tbg always manages to determine what sounds better when comparing two very similar things. Can I assume he is unbiased... | |
| Is DSD download already an extinct format? " I'm sold on native DSD being better than PCM"Why is that again? Is there a concrete technical reason or reasons? I would think a quality implementation of each playing same resolution source material would be more alike than different. What woul... | |
| Why are there no high end cheater plugs? Is it even possible to "cheat" and also be high end? :^)If so, untouched money to be made here, someone..... | |
| Reference 3A Sema Zen specs now posted You just have to like to listen to it, nothing more....... :^)If you wnt to see some rally ugly speakers, take a look at my system. Plain Janes if ever there were one, but they do make beautiful music.... | |
| "The Breeze" How much was the record?I see my local B&M audio shop asking $30 a pop for most releases. You would expect good quality for that price but never a guarantee with records. Its old technology reborn that is probably well past its prime in terms ... | |
| Can headphones ever be as good as high end stereo? Headphones are way easier to try and audition than a home system.The beautiful wall of sound will be different, more encompassing and less in front of you. Some pricey audiophile phones and/or phone amps may attempt to simulate a soundstage and im... | |
| Ripping CD's - Bypassing Computer CD Player RL, So far I am using mostly MusicBrainz Picard to autotag FLAC after ripping. Is there a tool from dbpoweramp vendor that enables tagging similar to while ripping that automatically pulls best metadata from the 4 multiple metadata DBs dbpwoeramp ... | |
| Zu OMEN - hmm Yeah, as we all know, sometimes it just does not work out no matter what.I think of high sensitivity speakers though as like listening under a magnifying glass....every little detail, good or bad becomes magnified and bigger/more significant. SO I... | |
| Zu OMEN - hmm I think higher efficiency speakers are more "finicky" pretty much by definition in that all aspects of both sound and noise are amplified more efficiently than otherwise.SO I think it kind of goes with the turf to expect to do a lot of tweaks and ... | |
| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? I will qualify that my longest Magico audition was for Minis that went for about an hour or so. Again this was behind >$100,000 worth of tube gear and SOTA DCS source. So how bad could this sound? It sounded very good. FWIW, other similar "qual... | |
| Ripping CD's - Bypassing Computer CD Player Good software for ripping is the key. End of story.For .wav on WIndows, I found free Windows MEdia Player included in Windows to work very well in general for many years. I am in trial period with DBPoweramp for ripping to FLAC starting last night... | |
| Anyone tighten up drivers occasionally As with most screws, etc., definitely do not over-tighten in some kind of audiophile perfection-driven rage. There is a point of diminishing returns generally well before that. :^) | |
| the greatest pop song ever? I'll add "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison to the list.Much better than "He's So Fine"..... | |
| Anyone tighten up drivers occasionally For Sure. The wing nuts that attach driver to cabinet on my OHM F5s require an an occasional tightening, but less so over time once things settle. | |
| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? Magico must be very sensitive to what is upstream. I have heard various models on a couple occasions and sound was top notch, very natural, nothing objective at all one could object to, although no product will please everyone.In both cases, there... |