mdalton
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| Sold Sold Sold @inna Not sure what alternative facts you’re smoking (assuming you’ve actually read the thread). Just on the basis of the actual email exchanges, the seller comes off as a gentleman, someone who went out of his way to help a potential buyer, ev... | |
| I am sad nope, can’t call the attache or the ambassador - they’ve recently been fired. | |
| What should I upgrade next in my system? one other thought: if your primary source is youtube, that’s compressed, lossy audio, so you shouldn’t spend a ton on a DAC, IMHO. But you’ll probably be able to hear substantial improvement spending less than $1000. | |
| What should I upgrade next in my system? Am no Apple TV expert, but if you’re streaming videos, you can use an external dac for the audio portion but you’ve got to use the apple tv streamer for the video portion (I think). You can get a better streamer for Quobuz and Tidal, but of cours... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @kerrybh I have similar views. Product types for which I have a healthy amount of skepticism include power conditioning, high-cost streamers, and network switches (omg!). Manufacturer claims regarding their low noise levels, jitter immunity, e... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @knownothing Amir’s conclusion actually says “So if you have audible mains related interference that is above a few hundred Hertz, then the PSM156 may have an effect”, which is decidedly less dogmatic than my friend @samureyex. If you read Amir... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @samureyex Think you may have intended your post referencing the Dave for someone else. I don’t have one. Regarding your post about the Puritan, you left out what mattered in Amir’s conclusions, which contained no inconsistencies. Here’s ... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @samureyex Well, I notice that you only responded to one of my 3 examples, lol! But with respect to DACs, I think each of the measurements is intended to reflect some specific aspect of sound. Whether you like that quality is of course up to ... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @samureyex While I wouldn’t characterize myself as “ an ASR supporter”, I do think ASR has provided valuable insight in several areas. 1) DACs - Providing consistent measurements for every DAC they test is helpful, though as others have sugge... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @hilde45 nice post. Only thing I’d add @toronto416 is that, with respect to power conditioning products, I think one can make a much stronger case for a measurements-first mentality there than for virtually any other product. The point is to “... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? Here’s another way of thinking about the issue. I catalog the jazz lp section of my 750 lp collection on Discogs. According to Discogs, my 395 lp jazz collection is worth about $10k. So let’s assume my total collection is worth about $15k. Tha... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? great question. I’ve got 3: 1979 - Southside Johnny opened for J. Geils Band at the Aragon in Chicago. Honestly, my buddies and I were there for Southside, so we actually left during J.Geils’ set. We were pretty stoned! 2006 - The Raconteurs ... | |
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» I’ve noticed this weird correlation between listening to lps and death. Maybe the covariance between listening to lps and age holds a clue. But seriously, the summer before my sophomore year in college, I used a significant chunk of my summer ... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? When I was younger, it wasn’t even close. During college, I’m pretty sure I never had more than 75-100 lps max. Who could afford a large collection? I’d sell stuff to help purchase new, and of course Chicago had a great FM station - WXRT. In g... | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp Cool. Btw, have you seen that Fezz audio is selling a DAC designed by Lampizator? Pretty reasonable price too, $3k for single ended, $4k for balanced version. |