mdalton
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| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range You have a cool system, and the Octave has more guts than most tube amps, particularly with the black box. I know one dealer who has paired it with Wilson Sabrinas and really likes the combo. Re speakers, I heard some Rethm Trishnas at Capital A... | |
| Ways to make your digital streaming sound better @bill_peloquin Great question. Have thought a lot about this, and here are two of the reasons I’ve come up with: 1) Internet anonymity has diminished the obligation of common civility, which is traditionally reinforced by the social norms of o... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources “A friend of mine mentioned that Aurender said somewhere in their literature that the streamer accounts for 70% of the sound quality of a system vs 30% DAC…” I don’t mean any disrespect, and I am sure your system sounds great, but that’s absurd (... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources I don’t know. but it seems to me that in order to be so definitive about a position, it would seem incumbent on the person arguing that position to cite something other than “people who have better streamers”, particularly in light of the science ... | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. Synthesis Roma 96DC for about $3k. | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @tubeguy76 Ok, sorry about that. But if you read the Archimago stuff, or if you look at the HiFi News reviews with measurements, the point is not that every streamer measures the same, or will sound the same. What they demonstrate is that with... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @tubeguy76 wrll there you have it! guess we’re done! | |
| Old phones as streaming sources you should check out streamer reviews on hifi news.paul miller does a measurements section at the end of each. in some cases, he shows the inferred jitter and snr of the streamer, and the impact on different dacs. cross walking that to the archim... | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp lol! yeah, sorry about that. I just thought the attacks on @deep_333 were gratuitous. He just made a joke about scope creep in response to another member. It was funny. | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp @jim2 For the record, I did not, and would never, use the word “crap”. My last post was lightly edited (as in one word) by the moderators. | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp @jim2 Now see, that’s just trying to put other people in little boxes. We do that in audio, just as we do it in politics (religion, etc.). In the audio world, for example, if I raise measurements, I’m accused of only caring about measurements. P... | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp @audphile1 lol! as long as someone agrees with you you’re cool! | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp @audphile1 @jim2 aah, jeez, I don’t know, why would anybody care that some moron is in a position to destroy the democracy we’ve managed to maintain for the last 235 years. easy come, easy go I guess. let’s just talk about expensive servers an... | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp Gold Note is another good choice. You could go with a DS-1000 Evo DAC/streamer that has a class A preamp stage, for only $7,500. If/when you decide to go vinyl, Gold Note has 3 different, highly regarded phono preamps ranging in price from $2k t... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @bruce19 here’s someone who actually measured the results of using a phone as a streamer vs several other options. His takeaway, no surprise, is that the DAC matters a lot. Jitter rejection and noise filtering at the DAC can level the playing ... |