o_holter
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| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? For checking if your system can do DSD, you can download a sampler from the Native DSD site for a symbolic cost. If the playback of the sampler disables the volume control on your mac / pc (or your DAC tells you this is DSD), you are probably in t... | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? I am also wondering, what would be the benefit of a dedicated streamer, compared to the solution I use now - an ethernet-connected Thinkpad T14 with USB to my DAC. Subjectively I don't notice any problems with the laptop as streamer. | |
| Better desktop DAC Yes, its a possibility. However it is a bit big for my desktop. And still quite expensive. And I am not sure I need the streamer part, since my ethernet connected laptop seems to work ok. Both streaming and playing DSD native from my hard disk. No... | |
| Better desktop DAC Testing some more today, Steven Wilson: What life brings, in Nightowl headphones from Teac Nt-505 in main system vs Topping e30ii in office system. Streaming from Qobuz. - No contest, Teac is better. No surprise. But it is a gradient. Not night an... | |
| Better desktop DAC One more test - what exactly am I looking for, with a better DAC? Point of interest: testing two DACs playing pure / direct / native DSD. The low priced topping e30ii and the mid-priced Teac nt-505 dac-streamer. Testing my own DSD files, in this c... | |
| Better desktop DAC I appreciate all the suggestions, very interesting, I look at their manuals and reviews - Bifrost 2-64, exaSound, Hidizs DAP. @soix asked about budget. Maybe max 1200 USD. Depends on the sound quality. The Topping e30ii is an over-achiever at its... | |
| Bose 901 Series V Questions @mbarrett635 - new equalizer - this is probably what I should have done. But in the end I wanted something new anyway. Great speakers but they did have limits. | |
| Better desktop DAC With most fairly new DACs I can play DSD files packaged to PCM using DoP. How much do I need the true / direct DSD capability? I've thought, maybe not so much, since I can play direct DSD in my main system with my Teac NT-505 - no problem. But I h... | |
| Better desktop DAC Forget DSD? The above discussion maybe illustrates a broader point. To get a good-sounding desktop DAC for a reasonable price, I should drop the DSD requirement. This is still a somewhat new and niche thing. If I keep to DACs with acceptable 1... | |
| Better desktop DAC Hi @Hilde45 Discussing DSD versus PCM is interestering, but off topic here. I just want the DAC to do the job for DSD as well as PCM. I am not so interested in DSD versus PCM filters etc. I have fifteen years experience with DSD recordings. I kno... | |
| Structural beam in middle of listening room @carlsbad2 Interesting suggestion. In my room I could maybe do away with the single column (too close to my listening position) by an expensive beam that does not need a column - but also, with a circa three thirds arrangement, two columns. Easi... | |
| Nearfield listening - once more Thank you, all! I have been into 'reverberant' sound, speakers trying to 'play' the room and so on since 1970 (Bose 901). The Audiokinesis Dream Maker speakers I have used the last ten years is a much more sophisticated version of this principle,... | |
| Nearfield listening - once more @atmasphere - my experience is that the sub needs to be cut off at a lower frequency than 80 hz. The Velodyne DD18 is the sub I've owned that really went low, and the crossover could be set to 40 - 45 hz. Even lower than with the two REL Strata su... | |
| Nearfield listening - once more Testing some more with the Audiokinesis Dream Maker floorstanders. They stand ca 5.5 feet from the wall, and 5 from the side walls, toed in ca 40 degrees. They stand 6.7 feet apart, measured from the center of the drivers. My conventional listenin... | |
| Bose 901 Series V Questions The best sound I got from 901s was in front of a brick wall. With the V towards the wall. That wall had a surprisingly large impact on the sound. And breathing space. The V maybe three-four feet in front. And of course, most of the time I did use... |