moonwatcher
Responses from moonwatcher
| Battle of the Older DAC Nothing wrong with many of the options outlined by others, but well, there's a LOT of DACs out here now compared to years ago. If you can believe this guy, the Geshelli Dayzee DAC, maxed out with the Sparkos or the Burson V7 Vivid op-amps gives a ... | |
| Best streamer, don't want Roon, don't want a screen, A DAC is OK but not necessary Pretty sad that you already have a great streamer in the Auralic Altair G2.1, but it has no digital outputs. That sux. The Holo Audio May DAC has two I2S inputs. While the USB is obviously a good way to get digital data into it, I'm sure you might... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. Just a wondering thought. Since we all agree this industry is being supported by a bunch of long in the tooth guys, not all of this gear being marketed will ever be sold. So, what happens to it? I mean like how many Klipsch, Fyne Audio, Tannoy, Sp... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. In 30 more years, most of us will be dead. Then will the main discussions on forums similar to this be a bunch of old farts discussing how much they loved playing certain video games and all the intricacies they discovered along the way of playing... | |
| Six DAC Comparison Most of these are well above my price range, but I am interested when you finally finish your comparisons where the LTA stacks up in this list. Keep having fun. | |
| Any owners of Schitt Bifrost 2? I would just ask yourself some hard questions. Do you get "upgrade-itis" often? If you get the Bifrost 2/64 you could use it a while, maybe later sell it or repurpose it for use in a headphone rig (if that sort of thing interests you). The thing... | |
| How to set up volume control on a DAC without a preamp +1 to @ivickery Note that Tidal recently had a bug that would ramp up volume to 100% when playing in shuffle mode. Just seems risky to rely on any software for volume control instead of good old reliable hardware. Be safe. "Version 2024.09.04 Re... | |
| Is Recording quality the real culprit? Album quality is of course hit or miss, depending on who the recording engineer was, the producer, the mixing and mastering engineer, and the label. Ironically most young artists don’t have a clue and go with the flow of whatever those with "suppo... | |
| What is your "holy grail song" that you cannot find? There was a song in the early to mid-1980s on MTV with a video. It wasn’t the "best song" or anything, but it always bugged me that I can’t find who it was by. All I remember is a snippet of lyrics, sung by a girl, "My color is red, tears fill my ... | |
| Six DAC Comparison Will be interesting to hear how the Linear Tube Audio Aero stacks up against the others costing 2X or more its price. Most reviews I've seen of it have been favorable. Have fun. Take your time though. Such comparisons can be difficult to ascertain... | |
| Six DAC Comparison The comparisons you make will be interesting. The fact that "DACs sound different from each other", even at what most would consider "high end" prices, does bring up a question. Why isn't there something like the RIAA curve for DACs? How can we e... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? For yet more food for thought, Steve Gutenberg recently reviewed a new Zesto Tube Phone Preamp, but he intentionally chose the MM one not the more expensive MM/MC one, but instead used, you guessed it, SUTs with it. You guys with MC carts, have ... | |
| Updating my streamer All these streamer/DACs recommended by folks are a "big step up" from the Node. However, I just recently saw that Bluesound is upping their game with a new streamer/DAC having a 5" screen, a better DAC implementation, and low noise power supply. C... | |
| Are all streamers the same? Not wanting to whip a dead horse, but I didn’t see anyone mention the fact that some streamers have better clock chips than others, so a bit less jitter is always a good thing, even if it borders on the inaudible. The other issue is to make sure ... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off Ah, we all just try to tune out the noise from HVAC systems, but I was taken aback last year when I tried some noise cancelling Sony Bluetooth headphones a friend had brought to work. Wow, such a calming reduction in ambient noise was amazing. He... |