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| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Johnny Walker blends malts all the time. I don’t want to even read about blending single malts…I skipped that part of the thread…that’s just criminal… I am old enough to remember when blending whiskies indeed was banned. I recall their wa... | |
| Location of compoments. @macg19 I stand corrected, yes it was ’89. I assumed it was the It’s hard tour, and looked up the album which came out in ’82. According to this he did it on stage at that Tacoma show, I just remember his hand being bandaged up in Vancouver. An... | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer @soix So the OP is using a DAP as a streamer right now. I don’t know but I would ask if it is galvanically isolated, does it suppress jitter, and how good is the power supply? These things are material, and I’d be hard pressed to think it compa... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @richardbrand All we had to go on were tasting notes, because even the bottles had been exchanged to remove that clue. Bottom line is that I correctly identified all eight whiskies presented. Unless you can do that 9 times out of 10, identif... | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer @nubiann So I get that a dedicated box is the way to go but beyond the use of a decent power supply, utilizing a well thought out circuit designed to reduce noise and populated by good components, there appears to be little opportunity for soni... | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer @eddy1 Here is another couple of curve balls: First curve ball: whether you upgrade DAC or not: Not sure if you just stream direct or if you play files, but if it is the latter this may be worth a read. I admit I am not that computer "tweak... | |
| Location of compoments. @bdp24 Must have been cool. I didn't see the Who until much later on, 1982 It's Hard tour. Before the concert in Vancouver in rehearsal Pete decided to swing his arm around the guitar and the whammy bar went right through the middle of his hand. D... | |
| Location of compoments. Above all on the list to getting better sound is to have a ladder next to your head | |
| Location of compoments. He notes that, if possible, do not locate your audio rack between the speakers, better off to one side. And if your components are not in a rack, if one doesn't own a "rack", then what? | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer @yyzsantabarbara There was someone comparing my $3k PBD streamer to the $13k or $20k PBD streamer and they could not tell the difference. And then there was someone who demoed/compared the Antipodes streamers with Aries Cerat DAC’s. His resu... | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer As evidenced by the answers in this thread there is no way to know. There is probably a slim chance you can review both yourself in your own system to compare I would wager? Having said that I then went and looked up this Astell & Kern thing... | |
| What preamp with both line stage and phono? I read your post several times, I am confused if you are actually looking to upgrade the pre-amp, or if you should be trying to upgrade your amplifier? you love the Shindo, so try a different amp. Try a Coda 16- my 15.5+ sounds exceptional with ... | |
| Black Sabbath and Jazz fans? @curiousjim Right? the tunes are catchy enough, and we are familiar with them enough to listen to the whole album, and then the sound quality is excellent enough to listen to them over again! @gerdessc I continue to find great compromise ... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Since it is New Year’s eve might as well discuss Champagne! All champagne is the same: the only difference is the price, the colour, and size and shape of the cover. They all function the same: drink it, absorb the alcohol, pee out the rest. Onl... | |
| Parasound vs Coda @decooney Yes, must be nice to be so close. Shipping my 140lb monster will cost $370 CDN each way. I’ll tell you though, it is speaker dependent of course, not sure what you got, but I am currently running my 4 ohm speakers (98db) with less than ... |