mezmo
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| Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved Yea, computer as source can sound great. But they're not entirely plug and play, because they're just not designed that way. Operating systems are designed -- gasp -- to make computers work as computers and do all those things a computer might do.... | |
| Which DAC is better? Yea, the conversion to a computer-based source can be daunting at first, but if you're inclined to keep at it, it will be old hat in no time. My first-hand experience with different DACs is somewhat limited. Have an Ayre and an MHDT Havana. They a... | |
| Which DAC is better? Gosh, "super USB", well that must be the best...There's no such thing as super USB. The Ayre and the Arcam will accept both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. USB 1.1, otherwise misleadingly known as "full speed" USB, will allow you to run up to 24/96 source ma... | |
| Most forgiving high end speaker 10k-20k? Don't have the experience to comment on all (or even most) of the suggestions but I did in fact seek to answer that very question myself, and ended up with the Verity Parsifals. Lesser recordings sound great. Exquisite recordings sound exquisite... | |
| Benchmark Dac 1 USB If you want a USB dac to be able to use a computer source, you'll be well served by a USB dac. If you're hoping that there's something magical about a USB dac that will "improve" the sound of a respectable CDP in the $3-4k range, think you may be ... | |
| Benchmark Dac 1 USB Oh dear. The Benchmark is highly regarded by many, yet frequently quite controversial around these parts. Tends to generate strong feelings (and often disagreement). A search of the forums will bring you back more than you might want, but this one... | |
| Dumb questions? OK, first of all, love these questions -- and nothing dumb about them. The hole drilled laterally through the post on the speaker connecter is really for bare wire. Thread the wire through the hole, and then tighten down on it. You don't need to u... | |
| What is Jazz? Thought I saw the idea above, but kinda like trying to define pornography. When the US Spreme Court was asked to do so, the best the supposedly best nine legal/jurisprudential minds in the country could do for guidance is "you know it when you see... | |
| Upgrading from a Classe CDP 300 and SSP 600 First of all, have to say that I am liking your taste in gear. (I'm running a qb-9, Rowland preamp, and Rowland 201's on the stereo side.) So, cheers that. Substantively, if you want to play blue ray, you'll need a blue ray player, no question the... | |
| Upgrading from a Classe CDP 300 and SSP 600 Not for nothing, but am I missing something? I wouldn't suspect that either the Oppo or the Integra would be -- by any stretch of the imagination -- an "upgrade" from the Classe gear you already own. Granted, the Oppo will have much greater functi... | |
| Your jaw dropping cables My two "holy crap" wire moments came (1) from moving from generic lamp cord (or equivalent) to Kimber Monocle XLs for speaker cable and (2) replacing the stock wires on a pair of Sennheiser HD600s with Cardas wire. (Not that either is an "ultimate... | |
| Please help me understand I going with: unless and until you hear it for yourself, you'll just have to take it or leave it on faith. If and when you hear it -- as we appear to have demonstrated -- I'm afraid that it doesn't get one bit easier to explain.... (And people cla... | |
| the meaning of the word "better" Nonoise: yea, had the SWAG v AFD dropped on me at a party, and immediately fell in love with it. Caught the first few episodes of House of Lies, then lost the thread (life had the gall to interfere, as it will). Definitely rings of management cons... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Mr. T: absolutely not, wouldn't say that I'm in a position to exclude anything. Just surmising and extrapolating from my admittedly limited experience -- and hoping to learn and expand said experience in the process. Way I see it, rambling on as I... | |
| Worth Going to 'THE SHOW' IN NYC IN APRIL Planning on Saturday (a local boy, so no excuses). Would love to meet up and sponsor a round -- although sounds like we're growing towards a potentially dangerous number of rounds.... Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say. |