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| Is there such a thing as a FOREVER DAC/streamer? Just two thoughts: 1. It depends upon your age. 2. IMO digital audio is currently more mature than it is being given credit for. It is being credibly compared with analog and with the sound of real music. The really good stuff at various price... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @yyzsantabarbara Since the reviewer says he bought the review DAC the real "bargain" comes a few months down the road when it is up for sale at about $27,000 if he follows the road of so many reviewers. So you’ll probably have another chance. He... | |
| Chord Dave and lInear power supply Many have reported that the power supply in Dave though small in size, indeed performs well and changing it yields no improvement. That is what Chord’s John Franks says. Very cheap parts. Very expensive PR. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC We haven’t seen much ESS Saber bashing on this thread lately. An interesting fact, though, is that the $34,000 Ideon Absolute DAC uses a single ES9038PRO chip. Its advertising stresses its power supply and analog circuit. Where have I heard that b... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns Always in a learning mode, I'd love to hear more about the "custom build streamer" that you're using. It's great to know that as you've gone higher and higher in the streaming realm, the 005 can keep up. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit There's been such an explosion in "interfaces" as you call them that asking for a low cost option is like asking for a low cost DAC. You'll get a boatload of suggestions, basically as what various people have settled on. The Mu... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit I don't think you can use the Mac C22 as an example by which to judge the sound performance of all preamps with tubes. I know that there are those who drool in front of the visual attraction of Macs. However, the build of the C2... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit When I wrote my last post I thought that the reputations of the Schiit and Rogue preamps were sufficiently well established that I failed to say the following. Remember that my personal judgments are, as best as I can, against li... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC As long as there’s so much talk about preamps I’ll add my $.02. Within the last two or three years I’ve gone from a fine 2 piece Sim Audio to a Schiit Freya+ to a Rogue RP-7. I have found that what works for me is that the preamp is the perfect p... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns It seems to me that the vocal excercises you outline might work to help "voice" your listening room rather than the component system. When I go to a dealer or a show I always carry with me, in one form or another, some music files with whic... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @yyzsantabarbara Too bad that Audiogon does not support a "search within thread" function. it would often be a great help. The best you can do here is to use the general search on "Musetec Bricasti". You will come up with something. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC From recent comments here it looks like I am not the only one here experimenting with cables of all sorts. Like may high-end devices I find the Musetec to be very sensitive to cables: power, USB & analog. I noted that in my particular set-up... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience Or what about woolen dryer balls like these from Gingko or these cheaper ones from Amazon? The Gingko site has a white paper explanation. There’s been some comment about these where they cut the Amazon ones in half into hemispheres.. | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience Wouldn't a Sorbothane or Sorbothane-like pad produce the same result at a much less expensive price? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @boxer12 As compared to other DACS I have used, the Musetec seems to have what I would call a fuller treble that’s a bit hard to describe. It’s not a tipped up top end, but rather a fullness that has the effect of filling out the overtones of ins... |