mattsca
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| Your first concert was to see who and when? Elvis Presley - Pontiac Silverdome 12/31/75. Fourth row main floor center. I was 9 1/2 years old. My mom took me - one of my best memories as a kid. I feel like I always “win” this bar talk. :-) But, damn, there are some good ones in this strin... | |
| Native DSD versus DoP Thank you everyone for the responses. I have to admit that I am surprised not to hear an opinion that native DSD is superior to DoP or even hi res native PCM. @ghdprentice, what you say makes a lot of sense - there may be a difference, but it is... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @stereo5, if I read correctly, your MCD350 is not outputting a true DSD stream, limited to the onboard DAC, or a toslink connection to an external DAC. | |
| What is your audio axiom? Excellent post/topic @2psyop, lots of good stuff here. I am reminded of a favorite piece of advice from Animal House: Boon: I gotta work on my game. Otter: No, no, no, don't think of it as work. The whole point is just to enjoy yourself. | |
| Subwoofer for Klipsch Heresy Thank you both for your suggestions. My Heresys are natural birch, but I may have them finished some time. I do have a pair of REL T/7x on my main system (McIntosh and B&W). Perhaps I’ll move one to this system for a bit to see how it plays. | |
| 15 amp vs 20 amp @ghdprentice, if using powered subwoofers, would you run those through the power condtioner or the same (or different) line as the amp(s)? | |
| I accidentally overcame the Wife Factor Agree, good story, @buellrider97, thanks for sharing! | |
| SACD v Streaming I'm not ready to spend $20K, but I already have a Denafrips Pontus II 15th and I just ordered a Lumin U2 Mini, which would be about a $4,500 streaming front end before interconnects. I'll be able to compare DSD streams and I expect I'll have a ni... | |
| SACD v Streaming Just thinking this through, my disc-based front end is maybe ~$9,500 ($5,500 MCT 500 and call it no more than $4,000 for the DA2 portion of the C53). But a few of you suggest that matching this SQ might take $20K for a streamer/DAC combination? ... | |
| Whole home audio - wired or wireless? I’m not likely to be drawn back to Sonos. Seems like I had a similar experience to @jbs - constantly frustrated by glitches, lost/unfound devices, robo responses from Sonos "help," etc. If I do pure wireless, it’ll be Bluesound. I could have be... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @mahler123 I don’t know why my feelings would be bruised. I’m not here for a debate. I’m just trying to understand how to get the best out of SACDs. Maybe you are getting native DSD over HDMI. Or maybe it’s DOP, but still sounds sublime. Maybe it ... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices Great discussion, thank you everyone. @faustuss thanks for those excerpts. It seems to me the Oppo and Sony outputs may be DOP. But from @milpai’s early post, it looks like the Onix transport distinguishes between DOP over some outputs and native ... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/onix-zenith-xst20-sacd-cd-transport | |
| Speakers sound too bright. @bigtwin that web site you shared is intriguing. I have a very challenging listening room - 15’ wide, 24.5’ deep, 6.67’ high (yeah, low ceiling) with a couple of support poles and ceiling beams across the width. And, there is a corner angled in th... | |
| PrimaLuna EVO 400 v Cary SLI-100 UPDATE: Thank you, again, for all the great perspective. This really has been helpful. I managed to get a good deal on a used PrimaLuna Evo 300, with stock tubes and a bonus set of KT150s. I hooked it up with the Eversolo A6 and out to my vintage ... |