mclinnguy
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| Zafvino Silver Dart Graphene vs. ? @macg19 Like @soix I definitely have no intentions of replacing my Acoustic Zen's. I recently upgraded my DAC, and these XLR's and speaker cables allowed all that increased resolution and detail to reach my ears yet most importantly in a musical w... | |
| Should I update my manufactures power cords? Back when I was avid in the Mcintosh forum at Audiokarma there was a fellow who sent out his newish (501’s I think? off the top of my head...) amps off to someone who did this procedure. I actually copied and pasted 2 of his comments over a 6 mont... | |
| Better desktop DAC Here is the best option you can get, buy my exaSound. No bias at all :) Quad DSD capable, headphone output, 800 US for you to match the price of another one in there exasound e22 | |
| Cable supports on the cheap... According to Synergistic research aluminum is the material of choice. cable riser demo these aren't on the cheap: but Money back guarantee- I didn't hear a difference on my macbook with my $2 dollar speakers and $10 DAC :) But this would be a... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? Totally agree excellent response. We could do the same with taste and smell. Do we get an analytical report on food before we choose restaurants- No! I once went to an apple pie contest. The panel of experts, some with 30 years experience in ap... | |
| USB revisited For the ‘it’s only 1’s & 0’s crowd’, they would have a conniption when hearing the SQ change instantly by adding a ‘warm’ or ‘cool’ tuning module to a Synergistic Research Atmosphere USB cable. And then the SQ change once again when connecti... | |
| DACed and Confused here... Wireworld Silver Starlight 7 cables are available used at very reasonable prices. Furuteck makes good cables too. The best I've found is from Canada and begins (I think) with "Z." Zavfino? | |
| Streamer question Getting a streamer with a decent app is difficult. After going through 4 streamers without getting anywhere near what I wanted from an app I had to bite the bullet and sign up to Roon. While it can be complicated finding your way around what Roon... | |
| Roon Aquisition: Will This Help Or Hamper? 2 more years and I have broken even with my lifetime membership. If someone got one recently no-one knows what will happen, but there are plenty of competitors/alternatives, so I would guess at worst they could say you just prepaid for the next 6 ... | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing This discussion has been both VERY helpful and VERY confusing Sometimes the best answer is one that yields more questions. | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! Boy we must nothing better to do, comparing cars in an audio thread :) Okay, coming off the heels of the last F1 of the year on the weekend, I'll bite :) In the mid 80's BMW had a 1.5 litre 4 cylinder formula one engine that produced over 1400 hp... | |
| Made Major Upgrade at $0 Cost in 1 Minute yes, but not my ears back then- you were talking about checking out REW with frequency/waterfall graphs/plots? Well back then those test tones were used with a db meter to check for nulls and peaks in order to balance the sound in a space. There a... | |
| Made Major Upgrade at $0 Cost in 1 Minute before there was such a thing called internet streaming I bought a Stereophile test CD with them on it as well. I still have it - it is dated 1990 :) edit: this is it stereophile test cd | |
| Made Major Upgrade at $0 Cost in 1 Minute Every now and then I run test tones to see how much lower my higher frequency senses have gotten- last I recall I was down to 14 kHz. if you are curious, and I am too to be honest :), run some test tones and see how high you can hear- if you hav... | |
| Made Major Upgrade at $0 Cost in 1 Minute I’m missing my hearing in high frequencies - sometime I can hear the hammer “clunk” hit a high piano note without hearing the note. Oh well, maybe for me a brighter sound is better. The highest possible frequency for a piano is under 5kHz. You ... |