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| Musician pegasus DAC or Denafrips Aries 2 The Musician company may be one you want to be careful of Apparently, they don't just lend a product for review to youtube reviewers, they give them the DAC to keep. That's way outside the norm. Perhaps that helps to explain the nothing-but-pl... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @agentwja You write of the possibility of getting an R2R DAC and a chip DAC to compare. If you look around you can see that it’s been done here by two fair and credible audiophiles with no commercial interest in either. Moreover it was done with ... | |
| Anybody here listen to Mahler? As someone wrote, with each of Zander’s recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra (on Telarc) there was included a separate disk with lengthy explanations of history, context, his conducting choices, examples of other conductors’ choices, example... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @jc4659 Nice post. You’re not the first to write of a WAF for this DAC, though we might have to redefine WAF. As you have only 40 hours on the DAC you have a lot to look forward to. With a CD player that might not be operating at its best, you ma... | |
| HDMI audiophile cable If you feel the need to spend money go ahead. But your DAC already has a circuit to convert from USB to I2S which is exactly what the Singxer does. In other words, it duplicates exactly what you already have. Unless you have reason to believe i... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Well, the Musetec DAC must be reaching an unanticipated level of acceptance so that its name is now being used to shill for a competitive, virtually unknown, product. As for the competitive product, it seems actually to be aimed at the Holo Audio... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Great New Year to all. @arafiq Thanks for the kind words. All of these are terrific components. You were lucky to find a used one in good condition because they are all considered to be keepers. I didn't l... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I said in response to an earlier post that I would look into possibilities other than Shenzhen. I have a lot of experience buying from overseas. I did inquire with Shenzhen as a potential customer and asked them about their return policy telling ... | |
| Need help understanding USB cables You can test easily to see if your DAC requires the 5V power from the USB cable. You can block the 5V line (pin one) of the USB A plug with a small piece of card stock. The system will either work or not. If it works then the construction of the c... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @fl_guy And I liked the 004 with a Schiit preamp. But when I went to a much better preamp, I liked the 004 even better. Somewhere in an audio system, unless it is exquisitely matched, there will be the limiting component that will curtail the SQ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @fl_guy First, I’m not familiar at all with headphone gear but it looks impressive and some steps above the Saga+. I thought the Freya+ was very good sounding and certainly punched above its price, though the manufacturing was very clearly to a... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @fl_guy Perhaps this can help. I have good news and bad news. When I had the 004 I bought a Freya+ and used it with 2 Sylvania chrome domes. I liked it a lot and it bested an excellent SS preamp. Different than the Saga+ I used it with the bala... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @arafiq You wrote, "Let’s not get into ethical dilemmas." Why not? Taking advantage of return policies is a reasonable way to audition gear when you might actually buy the stuff. It’s not OK IMO when you just want to hear stuff that you have no... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @arafiq I don't know anything about a Tekton thread. But please, no false analogies. At one point I wrote to you, "Which you prefer is a matter of taste, and no one can substitute their judgment on that for your own." Is that the sort of post... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @metaldetektor Audiogon is a moderated forum. But that’s not enough for you. Now you are officially its policeman, protecting the great unwashed from being bamboozled. If you can find one thing that I wrote here that is untrue or over the top I ... |