mikhailark
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| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? Except Parsons knows about gear and sound way more than any audiophile. Or even whole bunch if them. | |
| Power Cables DAC - maybe. Streamer? No. Is your desktop computer faster, dissipate less heat, screen seem sharper and colors start popping out when you user expensive power cord? Try it. Streamer us just an ARM computer. | |
| Tidal removing all MQA @anotherbob - this is not always true and not because analog is superior or not. The reason is that mastering on quality LP is better. See, stream is often CD mastering, even if it is 24/96. They stream to you what was made for CD before downsampl... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @rooze - yes, thanks! I am watching if 48R happens to show up slightly used... :-) | |
| When did you last update your Wifi firmware? Normally you set it to auto-update. However, sometimes manufacturer stops servicing old models. For added security get a Firewalla if you are concerned. | |
| Ethernet cables Think about twisted pair, coaxial, fiber, satellite, multiple servers, firewalls, bridges, routers, optical/electric conversions, and back again between your house and the streaming server. Data is sliced into packets, transmitted via different ro... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @lewm - they are delivered without any losses over USB connection as are bits you write and read from USB flash drive or a hard disk. Else you would write one thing and read another. USB does not lose anything, ever, unless media (SSD, flash) is d... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @grislybutter good for you, so you already know everything you need. | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @soix - your question includes multiple other components. Please re-read my information. I said bits come identical from $50 device and from $50K device. It is trivial to verify having proper equipment. Now, you are changing this to "sounds diffe... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @grislybutter - Net is designed to deliver perfect bits. It transmits ridiculous amount of information every second and a packet becomes garbled it is rejected by the receiver and retransmitted. Can someone imagine military encrypted data to come... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @soix - I said everyone is free to spend their money the way that want. They are also free to think what they want. They may even disagree with professionals. Their choice. But stream is exactly the same in $1K streamer (actually, in $50 streamer... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @soix -are you a network software engineer? I wrote code that used in these streamers. Yeah, I am a minority. Guess what? Network engineers ARE a minority in general population, not everyone is educated in the field. And yes, streams and Word docu... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @inna - you had to upgrade digital b/c network and computer speed was insufficient for high resolutions. Now you can have 24/192 pretty much everywhere along with DSD. This does not have to be upgraded. Actually, good analog is quite a bit harder... | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? @soix - thank you, I know how computers and technology works fully and completely. They are all identical Linux boxes, just fancy cases and screens. If you think there are some sort of "bit errors" or "jitter" on the Net, think why is that Word d... | |
| Best Preamp with Tape In and Tape Out Monitoring Capability I recently researched this very subject. Tape loops are hard to come by these days, but here are few that have it: Higher Pass models - XP-22 and up, BAT preamps, Accuphase (pre and integrated), Luxman. |