mlsstl
Responses from mlsstl
| Device that plays the USB you made for your car in your home @auxinput, the Raspberry Pi I described will output an analog signal to RCA jacks -- even gave him two options depending on his sound quality demands, for a cost range of $50 to $100 or so. | |
| Device that plays the USB you made for your car in your home You've always got the option of getting a Raspberry Pi and running the Picoreplayer OS on it. You can plug in a USB thumb drive (or regular USB hard drive) and play music from that, including on a random basis. If your home system handles USB out... | |
| Any advantage having a 3V Dac output? I believe that 15 dB gain (which is low -- most amps have 20+ dB of gain) means that the amp needs about 2 1/2 volts input for full power output. He should be fine with the 3 volt output of his DAC. | |
| Any advantage having a 3V Dac output? The answer to your question is system dependent -- what’s the input sensitivity of your power amp? If it only takes 1 or 1.5 volts for your amp to output its full power, then your 3 volt DAC output is largely wasted -- you’ll need to either turn d... | |
| Basic DAC / Streamer questions "literally performs almost same as..." You don't mention the basis for the comparison, whether a specific set of measurements or a subjective determination of sound qualities, but there are a lot of relatively inexpensive DACs on the market that ... | |
| Basic DAC / Streamer questions The owners manual for this $3K device can be found on the manufacturer's web site. On page 9 it explains that the line output can be set at a fixed level or the volume control can be used. I'm not a Mac person, but the unit shows it has multiple ... | |
| The future for a current Squeezebox user @audioengr -- I run LMS on my server and have several Raspberry Pi based players configured as Squeezeboxes. All of them connect wirelessly to the server and have no problem playing 192K/24 music, whether from Qobuz or my local collection. Also,... | |
| Ohm Speakers Model B @johnpascali -- I've dealt with Ohm for many years (had a set of the original Ohm Fs in the late 1970s and own Ohm 1000s today) and have always found them one of the most straightforward companies out there. Something tells me there is more to the... | |
| Accuphase pricing Japan vs. USA Regarding pricing in different countries, it also depends on the image branding the manufacturer has adopted for a particular country. In the US, Mercedes cars are marketed as high-end, exclusive autos. Meanwhile in Europe, while you still see the... | |
| sharp and piercing high pitch /frequency coming out from Harbeth C7 One other thought -- there are bad recordings. Sometimes the original master is done using microphones that have their own frequency response anomalies, or the engineer messes with the frequency response -- perhaps because the studio monitors had ... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D @kw6, interesting comment. Why don't we need any extra second harmonics for live music? | |
| sharp and piercing high pitch /frequency coming out from Harbeth C7 I agree that you should try a different amplifier with the speakers, and also perhaps a different CD player, though I think the odds are better with the amp. I had a CJ preamp some years ago that ended up with a bad capacitor in the power supply t... | |
| Speakers sound brighter at evening / night? It has been known for ages that humans are subject to a circadian rhythm, a daily cycle that affects how our bodies and minds work at different times of day and night. I would not find it surprising at all that our perception of sound is also subj... | |
| Opinions of GoldenEar Triton 1 Even though my main speakers are Ohms, I am fond of the GE line of speakers. I had a pair of Aon 2 bookshelves for several years which I recently traded in to get their BRX bookshelf speakers for my office. The BRXs use the mid-bass and tweeter fr... | |
| Ohm walsh or focal domes I have Ohm 1000s (and owned the original Ohm Fs some 45 years ago) and one of the unique aspects of Ohms is their incredibly big sweet spot. Uniike many speakers that only image well when the listener is in one small, very specific spot, I can be ... |