old_ears
Responses from old_ears
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? kingbr, second the Diana Krall SACD. For something completely different, Point Yellow, Dolby Atmos edition...the "stage" moves around the room using various pairs of 7.1 speakers. | |
| Denafrips Pontus II Clicks Or Static? So along these lines: I question why on my 2010 MacBook Air, Audio Devices, when I go to set/match sample rates why is the Pontus II always showing a 32 bit rate? Also I'm disappointed with the technical requirements for the firmware update. My ... | |
| New Outlets Lead to Better Sounding and Tasting Coffee Thanks for the Owl recommend Eric... | |
| New Outlets Lead to Better Sounding and Tasting Coffee Hmm, surprised miguelito hasn't chimed in here. When Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac, toured Miguels' system I, and others, noticed the high end espresso machine in the background. One person ask what his preferred beans were; Black Cat Classic Es... | |
| Favourite Guitarists Memorable moments: Leo Kottke, in the middle of 12 string magic breaks the hi g string and without missing a beat starts transposing around it...Utah late 70's Santana, last note of the Caravanserai performance rings for at least 2 min after... | |
| What Digital to Digital Converter Do You Use? Why? to ghdprentice Agree, I'm not sold on converting any native output signal, just adds interpellation (maybe good or bad). What did make a very notable difference for me was using a cheap "break-out" box on an OPPO 83 HDMI output to separate t... | |
| NEWS FLASH!! Listening to Music is NOT a "Distraction." Just to end on a humorous, self-deprecating cautionary tale: Yep, love disappearing into the music along with the speakers/headphones...unless....it's 4am, in a snowstorm, with 1ft on the unplowed twisty mt. road, on the way to do avalanche con... | |
| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? Learning as we go: after some googling and contemplating there is one area that needs clearing up. The OP was enquiring about various RCA analogue cable designs I believe. I'm sure there can be sound differences between them, single channel ... | |
| 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'... |