mrmeaner
Responses from mrmeaner
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? It’s absolutely not a snobbery thing, if your a jazz fan and someone said it’s just pop music plenty would say something. My wife’s mother & uncle was at the Cavern to first night the Beatles played there and many nights after and even they ca... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? I have to agree the Beatles in my opinion are a pop band, with one or two rock songs in their locker, all music is not Pop, it not all rooted in Rock n roll, pop is a mainstream popular music, a great deal of rock music is born from the blues, Met... | |
| Do You Play Or Save Your Best Cartridges Pardon the analogy but it’s a bit like saying “I’m never going to sleep with the Mrs to keep her nice & tight for the next guy!” | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? The OP is a stupid & very prying question, sort of turns things into a dick measuring contest. But my answer is £… | |
| Streamer Upgrade I now have an Auralic Aries G1 with upgraded power supply from Stephan Hoer-Wege, The upgrade brings it very close to the Auralic Aries G2.1, it’s very very good. | |
| Class-A Amplification and 15 Amp Outlet I’d try and audition the company that did it first, Sugden. The Masterclass IA-4 is a very special unit. | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... @lanx0003 the Ares II can sound grainy on the top depending on the o/s non o/s selection, I found in oversampling mode it could be grainy on some tracks, the Pontus is just pure silk, I’d love a terminator but 1 I’d need to lose the wife and too I... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... I’ve had the Denafrips Ares II and thought it was a great product, especially for the price tag and I thought wow these are a great company, I thought I want even more of this so I moved up to a Denafrips Pontus II and it was more of the same, muc... | |
| AKM makes the best DACs To say “The Best” is such a hard title to try to hold, after all it’s all subjective to opinion, individual setups, etc. Having said that, the discrete R2R ladder dacs coming out of Denafrips & Holo Audio are extremely impressive, and as it s... | |
| A different world I’m very impressed with streaming, I love my Denafrips DAC and can’t imagine how much I’d need to spend to better it. If you think how far & good streaming has become in the last few years it’s encouraging to think what is in store for the str... | |
| Class A: Accuphase vs Pass Labs house sound? Sugden IA-4 Masterclass. Pure Class A from the pioneers of it. | |
| Recommendation for Digital Coax Mogami cable. Forget the witchcraft. | |
| Advice regarding streaming please. Don’t get me wrong, the Audiolab is not a bad streamer, but I know the rest of the gear is capable of better. | |
| Advice regarding streaming please. I know very little about Roon, but as for components past the DAC is a Sugden A21SE & KEF R3 speakers the amp is a keeper but perhaps in time the speakers would be in my sights. | |
| Is Pretty Good Good Enough? Listening Habits In The World Of Streaming Services. I have this debate often with my mate, while I admit vinyl on a quality turntable sounds great streaming from 24bit -192khz on my system to me sounds good enough that missing that one little top hat here or there etc doesn’t really change my life.... |