old_ears
Responses from old_ears
| DAC diminishing returns I've had a dedicated headphone station with MacBook Air >usb, Oppo 83 >coax, Bifrost 2 >bal, Jot 2 >bal, Aria phones for a year last March. Very good sound! Then in Mar, consumed by reports of awesome 2 ch SACD via I2s (HDMI) ... | |
| High quality CDs In defense of Chesky... They have a free hi res sampler down load at HD Tracks that has some classical tracks and sounds amazing on high end headphones. Not classical but their binaural church recordings are ear candy, e.g. Amber Rubarth. | |
| Does Formula 1 racing and high end audio go together for anyone else? Me and my 40K mile '93 900ss....that first F1 this year was super! Sorry I don't get why a simple .jpg won't post? | |
| Looking for Blues with High Fidelity +1 Muddy Waters Folk Singer (Mo-Fi Master) +1 John Lee Hooker the Healer (Mo-Fi Master) Buddy Guy Sweet Tea (CD) Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills Super Session (CD) Holly Cole Temptation (Tom Waits songs) jazz-blues CD) The cd's have very good sou... | |
| Differences the Project RS2 Transport and the (newest) Jay's Audio CD2 Mk 3 Maybe a new can of worms here but the otherwise wonderful Project transport with it's proprietary I2S only plays the redbook layer of a Hybrid SACD? Why would they limit the very best playback (original, well recorded SACD). Does it even happ... | |
| CDP or Transport and DAC? Recomendations? SACD is the decider, I believe the only legal way to get it is with a built in DAC, analogue output, not a pure "transport". Otherwise separate DAC all the way. I have SACDs that are the best sound available on my system (e.g. Norah Jones "Come... | |
| 1K range phones that will work well with Schiit Jotunheim? i Phone 6s+, AQ-Cobalt, Senn 560s, Modi 3+, Asgard3, Sundara, Bifrost2, Jot2, Arya... I'm one of the 3 blind men describing the elephant, narrow experience; but after old Koss4s, 2 decades of Etymotic various models I bought the first planars I'... | |
| Critical listening and altered states A certain revered string agitator once said: "are you experienced? not necessarily stoned, but experienced?" Pleasure without analysis is immersive listening- the right brain; critical listening- the left... Actually producing music by a tra... | |
| My battle with sibilance. Ok, I dug up the Men From Down Under (Business As Usual, US Columbia print) and washed and vacuumed them throughly, and still they were working...at jackhammering my AT540ml cart in the air on the opening cut. Not the Men's fault; deformed li... |