mattsca
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| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ @kennymacc no, you clearly don't get the point. And your invective, ironically, is a lot more "whiny" than the OP's open letter. But whatever...thank you for your attention to this matter. | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ @gkelly I think you miss the OP’s point. He’s not complaining about the cost of a good per se. He’s complaining about the presence of true snake oil on the market. And I agree, it is insulting and offensive. It mocks our passion. You say he is ... | |
| Qobuz Connect Perhaps unrelated to your Qobuz Connect problem, but I occasionally get a similar stop of play with Qobuz through Roon on my Eversolo A6. But if I play Qobuz directly there is no issue. That makes me wonder if it’s a processor issue with my Nucleu... | |
| Open Reel Curious Okay...two votes for "Run! Run far away!" And one for "Stay curious, but cautious?" Yeah, I’ll keep researching, and thanks for the link, @mgattmch. For the record, my respectable system is Lumin U2 Mini, Denafrips Pontus 15th, Mc C53, Mc MC31... | |
| 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 ... |