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| why is it such a PIA to post a bloody photo here ? this platform is cranky as hell ! Test....Nope, with Safari the image ikon only takes a URL (online address); no cut & paste here. | |
| What is your top sexy song? I know it was “Top Tune” but being a single old goat I’m ignoring Voltaire’s advice that “once is passion, twice is perversion”: 1. Melody Gardot & Sting say there may be “A Little Something”… 2. Roy Buchanan tries to control “Mr... | |
| Solo streamer "Reality only exists because we invented Time"...Oppenheimer So, thanks jazzman7 for sending me down a Tech rabbit hole of "clocks" for 3/4th of my day... lol. Back in the good ole Air Force pre-GPS, analogue days (1970's for me) we alwa... | |
| Solo streamer I'm a month late to the party here but to: jazzman7 and @monowatcher, Clock source can depend on the DAC. Maybe not normal synchronous I2s protocol but according to my Owners Manual for Pointus II, "incoming signals are all stored, buffere... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 OP, I was just reading up on Ayre products...pretty nice/expensive. I guess the essence of my posts is that an I2s input port on a DAC will usually provide a step up in sound quality over USB/SPIDF/AES connections...YMMV. | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 BTW, the Denifrips USB port from a new MacBook Pro can also provide just as good sounding Hi-res binaural downloaded files as the I2s CD/Blueray connection. The Pontus handles all the buffering/oversampling and re-clocking functions you need rega... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 I've repeated this post a few times...here's the article that was published Jan,2021, that describes using an OPPO player to output SACD content via an HDMI cable to a cheap I2s breakout box and on to the I2s port on the Pontus II. I duplicat... | |
| Youtube audiophile hi res sounds MUCH better than my Eversolo streamer So a bit of googling shows U-Tube at 750p maxes out at 128kbs AAC and YouTube Premium (old Red) maxes at 256kbs ACC. YouTube accepts hi res up to 96kbs Flac lossless, but these are transcoded to the above levels. They recommend submitting t... | |
| Yello - Reel to Reel The Limited Edition Dolby Atmos Blue Ray "Point" is really fun. I don't have height speakers but the "stage" changes between front and surround speakers. Very high quality recording for my 7.1 surround system. | |
| Transport Recommendations Tweak1, The ET3 has I2s (HDMI) output, but doesNot do SACD for lack of license, but are working on it. Here's a Darko review: | |
| Newer Blues Artists or Recordings There's a special blues guitar technique I really like...I saw Dicky Betts in the Allman Bros, in concert at William & Mary, Va. playing In Memory of Elizabeth Reed...uses right hand little finger to control the volume knob to make the ins... | |
| High quality recordings any genre Fuzztone, thanks for the Octive Radio, my kind of streaming...my favorite is RadioParadise, 4 channels of curated variety in up to FLAK 16/44.1. Arcam88, +1 for SS's Flamenco A Go Go has some fine, fun guitar work, good sound Sound check... | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? Just a couple of points: 1. Any iOS device (phone or tablet) will send the correct sample rate of a streamed or onboard file via the hardwire Lightning or USB-C port. (AirPlay resamples the signal) 2. It's all about the DAC, if it has an input b... | |
| Bose 901 Series V Questions I had and liked a pair of 901's from 1972 til 199?..when the 500W Bose amp shorted for a second time, taking out one of it's channels and frying all the drivers on that side. Replaced with Vandersteen 2ci's. I use the remaining speaker for ... | |
| Add I2s to Oppo players? Thanks for the link Unsound., bookmarked. My headphone stack is an OPPO 83 (not on the listed players). It's using an HDMI external breakout box for I2s, and the Pontus DAC has a high end clock in it. The nice power supplies are tempting ... |