mike_in_nc
Responses from mike_in_nc
| Streamers rabbit hole @arstereo - Let me elaborate on (and agree with) what @george_r said. With the STR integrated, there is no value to the DAC in a streamer with DAC, at least if you are using any digital features of the STR. Those include bass management, Anthem Ro... | |
| Streamers rabbit hole I had an STR Preamp for quite a while. I used the Auralic Aries G1 with it happily. It’s a high quality, reliable streamer without a DAC. At this point, you would have to buy one on the used market. What software do you intend to use? I use Roon,... | |
| Linear power supply Before spending money on that, you might want to read this Benchmark Media white paper on SMPS, if you haven’t already. I've used Benchmark components with SMPS and have owned a Classé preamp with SMPS for about 10 years. They all have been excep... | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ See Wikipedia for more: A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping... | |
| Thoughts on DAC option Before spending on such tweaks as fancy cables and isolation footers, or even before spending thousands on new components, I'd take a close look at the acoustic properties of the room. Fixing slap echo, killing first reflections -- those are thing... | |
| Weiss 501 DAC Question When I owned a Weiss product, I found their tech support was excellent. Often, the reply came from Daniel Weiss himself. | |
| Thoughts on DAC option There have been many good suggestions so far. In addition, I would experiment with the filter options on the Vega. When I owned one years ago, they definitely could impact the sound. This will not make huge changes, but it's free. You might benef... | |
| "I Trust My Ears" @devinplombier - " Colored sound is completely fine when it delights the listener" Maybe. Or maybe a particular listener doesn't know better. It is when the scale of good-better-best is used that we run into trouble, but preference I have no prob... | |
| "I Trust My Ears" @devinplombier >> None of this has to do with measurements and I’m not sure why they’re being brought into the conversation . . . . Instead it has everything to do with whether and how much we can / should trust our brains to accurately... | |
| "I Trust My Ears" Trust, but verify -- as Ronald Reagan said (not that he's any hero of mine). A classic story is an audio person hearing a difference, then finding the patch cords were not as expected, and the difference makes no sense. Especially with speakers,... | |
| Single way or multiway Somehow owners of audio companies always say their way is right, and other people are doing it wrong. What can one learn from that? | |
| The cool factor- who has it? +1 @larsman In the jazz world, I'd include players who bring (or brought) out the best in others. Miles Davis would be cool by that measure, and so would Art Blakey, Ron Carter, Charles Lloyd, and Tommy Flanagan. I'm sure there are many more.... | |
| Magnepan 1.7i vs 2.7i? As a person who is fussy about treble, I would go for the 2.7i myself. | |
| Strategy for upgrading long interconnect cable run I use a pair of 7 m balanced interconnects in my system. None of the boutique cable makers I tried was willing to send such a long cable on approval (it would have to be made up special), so I ordered cables made from Mogami W2549 and Neutrik XLR ... | |
| Need to get off of bluetooth.... looking for a wifi streamer for my budget +1 @2psyop |