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| Settings for Oppo bdp105 used with external DAC (Tambaqui) Earlier in my digital days I was sending CDs from my Oppo 105 to an LKS DAC using either spdif or optical. It seemed pretty easy so I don’t remember any particular settings. So I wonder whether the settings on your DAC are OK. In any event your se... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I have wound up with a tube system, but for the Musetec, Although with its twin JFET analog circuit it probably sounds as much like tubes as a transistor circuit can. Just by chance, rather than by theory, I have found value in the tube compone... | |
| Is the VPI Forum Down Again? I wonder whether VPI just grew tired of the direct and indirect criticism of their own products on their own forum. There was a very long and very critical thread about their ADS drive system. It was so critical, including complaints from buyers... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC If anyone is using their Musetec 005 straight in to the amplifier you might want to rethink that based on a recent post at head-fi. Adding a preamp was said to add major improvement in in "dynamics, holographic quality and organicness." True, the ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Just a note about a sale price on the Musetec from Shenzhenaudio.com from August 22 to 26. $2,969.10. They run this store-wide sale from time to time. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Once again @jjss49 and @lordmelton have given us very valuable insights into the sound of the Musetec and other DACs. Any of the DACs mentioned together with care in digital signal delivery, I believe, will give the listener a real taste of what d... | |
| Chord DAVE DAC As for objective fidelity and measurements ASR, has recently trashed the Chord DAVE. Objectively speaking, if you follow what's been going on in the forums it is clear to me that one doesn't have to spend more than the cost of the Holo May to get... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @debjit_g Comparison is only to the best Supra power cable that I terminated. I don't believe what power cables have to do is all that complicated: deliver and shield. If we are able to look inside a DAC and make some assumptions about what we ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns I gather that the Muon ($1312) is an Ethernet filter at a higher level than the Eno filter ($704) from the same source. Both are entirely passive devices. Have you (or anyone else here) used either of them? Do other devices in the chain hav... | |
| IFI DIABLO In his comparative review video Goldensound says the ifi iDSD Signature sounds better than the Diablo. And it costs less. The audio marketplace is littered with products that made a strong first impression and got great reviews but which, upon lo... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @debjit_g I've been happy using Viborg VP1606 power cable first recommended by a cable guru on another site. My first was long and I had to terminate it, not so easily done as it's a big cable. Since then I see that they are available terminate... | |
| Dvorak Cello Concerto @goofyfoot In many ways I am partial to the older (stereo, of course) methods of recordings. We don't have to span the universe of recordings to compare a few mentioned here. I said earlier that I am partial to the Starker/Dorati Dvorak recordi... | |
| Dvorak Cello Concerto @goofyfoot The definite advantage to newer recordings is the sound quality. Always? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @rrboogie Just a reminder about the USB in the Musetec, in that it doesn’t use the 5 volts from the USB cable. I mention this because most of the Sablon 2020 USB cables shown have a double cable configuration keeping the 5 volt, line one, wire se... | |
| Dvorak Cello Concerto I guess I'm partial to some of the older ones. Consider Fournier with Szell and the Berlin Philharmonic. Playing is great. Accompaniment is also great. |