p05129

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Lumin U2 mini vs Mac laptop sound test
Software is the main difference. I went the external streamer route then went back. Roon on any OS vs Audirvana on Linux, that’s the test you want to do.   
How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music?
For almost 50 years, I know what certain instruments sounds like because I have them or my band members had them. Sure a Marshall amp sounds different than a fender tube amp, a Rickenbacker sounds different than a Stratocaster or a Les Paul, and a... 
Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update
You don’t have to have intelligence to be an audiophile and this case proves it. So many so called audiophiles/reviewers/analog purists thought the albums they bought sounded excellent until they found out that some of the albums were cut with DSD... 
notable consolidation possibility, should I or not?
Anytime you get an integrated amp with a dac, phono stage, streaming functionality, the manufacturer is putting compromised pieces together compared to separates. That’s not to say there aren’t very good all in 1 integrateds that sound great. Go 1... 
Audio Research filing for bankruptcy?
‘I’d assumed given Audio Reseach’s pedigree and long standing high end tenure they’d be on very solid ground financially.’ How many people do you think buy ARC equipment? ARC builds great equipment that 99.9999% of the world doesn’t know about no... 
Revel F228be
Rotel is the weak link. Revel speakers need good quality power. If you can find a pair of Revel Studio 2’s used for a similar price, I would get the studios plus you will need a quality amp but you won’t be disappointed   
EBAY MONEY BACK.......WHAT A JOKE ???
Get with PayPal or your credit card and dispute the charge  
2023 AXPONA Show Report
Kenjit - the room admins have every right not to allow everybody to -lay their own music and I agree with them. Most of the music I have heard in rooms was garbage and it takes forever for the admin to cue up a specific track. 1 clown couldn’t rem... 
The best part about MQA bankruptcy..
Most of these ignorant replies sound exactly like the audiophool cable naysayers on ANA. How can a $50 cable sound better than my .02 cent cable, must be snake oil. That’s exactly how most of these posts sound. So many wrong posts. The post about ... 
MQA Declares Bankruptcy
kenjit - either get a quality audio system or a set of ears, maybe both and listen to real music  
2023 DAC comparison: MSB Select vs dCS Vivaldi Apex vs Wadax Atlantis Reference
FYI: the wadax combo along with some $150k reference loudspeakers were in one of the worst sounding rooms at last years Axpona according to multiple reviewers/sources.  In the past, years ago, I preferred other dacs to the at the time best dac MSB... 
Thinking of Magnepan ... finally!
Why? So much better out there.  
Why do I need a switch?
Forget the switch. If your sound is noisy, get a Ethernet-to-fiber then back to Ethernet setup going to your dac and you will clean up the signal. As for getting multiple switches to clean up the signal, that’s nuts. But if you can tell the diffe... 
un-becoming an audiophile
6 digit income is poverty in certain areas of the country/world. it’s not that hard to make a 6 digit income since the year 2000. It also doesn’t mean you will spend a $200,000 on an audio system or $200,000 on a car. Why spend hundreds of thousan... 
Warm, Lush Laid-Back Smaller Floor Standers?
For $8000 and a large room, look at the revel f228be speakers over the f226be’s because you get 8” woofers. Or if you want and end all speaker for a little more money than the f228’s and less than $8k, you can get the revel studio 2’s or for a lit...