mitch2
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| What type of speaker would sound better? First, think about the available amplifier power, room/listening area size, your musical preferences, and your preferred listening level. Consider whether you have a preference for horns or dynamic speakers, since they can offer two different pre... | |
| Odd DAC Pricing @mjjw - In that price range, you could take a look at the Meitner MA3i for $11.5K. If you are considering R2R DACs, there are others. | |
| Is there a ROON sound? I too am ok with how Roon sounds in my system and do not notice any weird artifacts. “You might ping him for some assistance since he has a vested interest in your happiness.” I agree with @ghasley but doubt it will require pinging, as I suspe... | |
| Harman To Acquire B&W, Denon, Polk And Marantz From Masimo In $350 Million Deal As always, market trends, innovation, and the willingness of entrepreneurs to invest, will ultimately decide what is available to the consumer. The serial acquisition and consolidation of smaller companies by bigger entities is not that unusual t... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Eric Clapton - Meanwhile (2024) SRV and Double Trouble - In Step (so easy to get lost in Riviera Paradise) | |
| Grimm MU2 Experience @ghasley - So, it sounds like there is active gain through some form of output stage. | |
| Grimm MU2 Experience One thing I haven’t seen is the gain structure specs on the MU2 volume control/preamp. Is it passive, is there a buffer, or is there active/positive gain and, if so, then how much? I believe most internal DAC/volume controls are passive. The manu... | |
| Grimm MU2 Experience So you believe it may be an improvement if I were to replace my ST i9 and Sig Rendu SE Deluxe with an MU1 to use as a Roon server/streamer to feed my DAC? Having a server/streamer in one box would be similar to what is offered by the Antipodes K5... | |
| Grimm MU2 Experience @ghasley - Thank you for taking the time to further educate me on the MU2. For context, my digital front-end is a SGC sonicTransporter i9 Gen 4, to the Sonore Signature Rendu SE Deluxe via optical, then an Aries Cerat Helene DAC. It all sounds v... | |
| Grimm MU2 Experience @ghasley - Nice write-up on the MU2. I was very close to getting off the DAC/streamer merry-go-round and trying/buying an MU2 earlier this year, especially after reading Michael Lavorgna's Twittering Machines review, where he said, “MU2 offers ... | |
| Feedback on Costco & Amazon sound absorption panels from folks who have purchased them. @goodlistening64 and @jsd52756 An interesting thing about the example in the link I posted previously is that the builder used an edge hardener instead of wood boards. The end result appears to look pretty good so that may be a viable option in... | |
| Feedback on Costco & Amazon sound absorption panels from folks who have purchased them. Owens Corning 703 is good stuff for sound absorption panels. This link shows one fairly easy method of making your own panels out of OC acoustic insulation material (link). | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Thank you for the explanation @devinplombier and @cleeds. Both of my main two DACs are NOS R2R types so only PCM for me, and my system sounds great through either of them. BTW, one of those DACs is Mojo Audio’s top DAC. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @cleeds - I am curious whether the transfer protocol really matters. As you say, “even hi-res audio requires a download speed of only around 10Mbps, so there’s plenty of time for any damaged packet to be re-sent.” Therefore, regardless of whe... | |
| reliable DDC I reinstalled my Singxer SU6 DDC the other day so that I could utilize the two S/PDIF outputs at the same time to make my comparisons between DACs in my system easier and quicker. Even though the two main DACs I have here are both said to perfo... |