mike_in_nc
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| Good choice for 20' XLR cable? I have them made up by a pro audio shop (in my case ProAudioLA) with Mogami 2549 cable and Neutrik's best XLR connectors. If memory serves, a 20 ft pair might set you back $150 or so. I've tried only one pair of designer audiophile cables, becaus... | |
| Location of compoments. I have the equipment on the side and use monoblocks at the speakers. So the balanced interconnects are 20 feet long, and the speaker cables are about 24 inches long. Clearly, doing what Smith recommends is more troublesome if using an integrated ... | |
| budget AES/EBU? Mogami sell an AES3 cable in their "Gold" line for about $60. It may have gone up. I think it’s probably as good as any. I used it for years in my system, until I switched to USB. My total system cost was near six figures US, yet I found the Mogam... | |
| Streamer & DAC under $1000? You might try the Matrix mini-i Pro 4. | |
| Bryston BR-20 screws I don't know the answer, but I'm positive you can find it by contacting Bryston support and service. If for some reason that's not practical, what I'd do is take the unit into a hardware store, and they will help you pick out the right driver to o... | |
| Enough is Enough It's funny, I've lived in about 6 or 8 US cities and have done business with dealers in each place, and I never had one use such tactics on me. | |
| Dirac without losing resolution Yeah, it's best to minimize the number of sequential ADC and DAC steps. At least, that's what my ears tell me. On the other hand, if crossovers are done in the digital domain so there's only one conversion, a separate DAC is needed for each chann... | |
| Dirac without losing resolution @jpmomo - If you do try the Trinnov, I for one would be interested in your impressions of sound quality and ease of use. | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? The best connection is the one supported both by the streamer and by the DAC. Some manufacturers have their own connections (like Auralic’s Lightning Link) or use I2S, and many say that the sound is best if those are used. I have no experience wit... | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? Most computers have several USB ports, so one is likely to be available for digital audio output. On the other hand, not all computers have HDMI, and the ones I have seen have only one HDMI port, intended for the monitor. All that makes USB a usef... | |
| Dirac without losing resolution Dirac needs to work in the digital domain . . . that’s why it’s called DSP (digital signal processing). That kind of processing is not feasible in the analog domain. Until recently, processing typically was done at 48 kHz or 96 kHz, so 192 kHz is ... | |
| Analog stereo to Bluetooth Speakers? You can buy Bluetooth transmitters from Amazon. They are relatively inexpensive. However, using Bluetooth is not likely to give you the same quality of sound as a wired connection. The signal will be converted to digital by the transmitter and th... | |
| Schiit Loki Max? @firstonetallguy It was a while ago, so I don't remember all the details. I wound up returning the knobs to DigiKey. They were more legible, but maybe not enough so, and they were sized enough differently that I didn't like them. Mike | |
| Need recommendation Right. Bose and Sony are the two most often recommended, at least in the comparative reviews I've seen. | |
| Need recommendation @hifinut51 - I assume that the Sonys will connect to an iPhone just fine. What it means is that it won’t connect using LDAC, but it will connect using the best Bluetooth codec that the headphones and the iPhone have in common. Since there are so m... |