mattmiller
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| BDP-105: IN/OUT Options. What/where decoding, huh? Elliott, The Oppo 105 SHINES as a DAC for a high quality music server....Like Auralic or Aurender (or any streamer like a Bluesound Node 2i) with its USB 2.0 audio input connection. Then you can connect to your stereo via its super high quality XL... | |
| Subwoofer Footing - Connect or Isolate? Dont elevate the sub, or De couple it from the floor as this will tend to make things sound dead, you will kill and rob the life out of the sub, this is a key quality that REL subs have. REL's not only produce bass they have a musical sound that w... | |
| CD player as a transport I would try to find a REGA Planet or Jupiter as these are top loading machines with less parts that break over time. One of the best most rugged CD players I ever owned was a Phillips 960 All metal sliding drawer with copper screws. Also, Californ... | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? "I have about $10k’s worth of components in my system".So somehow this makes you qualified to write DAC reviews? So it seems? None of us have any frame of reference! DAC’s are like ears everyone has at least one. I still have my old MSB Nelson DAC... | |
| What are your top 5 Windham Hill recordings? Yaaaaaawwwwnnnn fest! | |
| Upgrade from Schiit Bifrost 2? Dont hate on the Mytek, it requires a high end source to make it shine, like a music server from Aurender. Mytek makes some of the best Dac;s on the planet and they dont sound digital! ...whatever that means. | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Anyone answering this thread just fell into a bear trap! ROFL The OP loves his HANA. | |
| Upgrade from Schiit Bifrost 2? Mytek Liberty DAC $1000 new! https://mytek.audio/shop/lbrt-dac-ii-liberty-dac-ii-287#attr=Your welcome! Matt M | |
| Advice for upgrading my system The first thing I would start with is the speakers, Monitor Audio is a great company but with $30,000 to shop with, you can do better. I would suggest something from B&W or Martin Logan, Sonus Farber just to name a few. Having a better source ... | |
| Tube vendors. Vintage Tube Services, If your looking for something REAL NOS from a guy that has speakers that are rated at 115db sensitivity who listens closely to every tube for sound quality, from someone who has been buying testing and selling tubes forever... | |
| Jumper wires/ cable suggestions Those MC 275's are awesome, and they sound incredible too. Cable choices are key to extracting the sound these amps give. I have used many cables from MITs to Monster cable and the cables that really disappear and let the amp shine are Morrow Audi... | |
| Analog to imac A HiFi man EF2A would work awesome it has USB and a pair of RCA outs plus its TUBED! come on man! $150 new, and its a headphone amp! https://hifiman.com/products/detail/59Matt M | |
| PS auido Direct stream Dac MYTEC Liberty DAC is only $1000 and it just came out not too long ago, Mytec is one of a short list of companies that excel at building DAC’s that sound incredible, and provide a ton of features. They also make the Manhatten and the Brooklyn DAC’s... | |
| Need 10ft -15ft MIT CVT Terminator 1 Speaker Cables Scott is your system naturally BRIGHT sounding? Is this why your using MIT's? Normally we use MIT's to tame a stereo from being to bright, I for one think this is a great time to try some cables that dont have boxes on them, these Network interfac... | |
| Class A amplifiers Class A amps run hot! And it does lower there life expectancy. With that said if you dont mind the heat it gives off (like some of us that live in Texas do) and you dont mind sending it in after a period of years (it will be needed) then go for it... |