p05129
Responses from p05129
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality I sold my reference quality cd player 15 years ago because ripped music sounded better using 3rd party software like Pure Music. I still have a Sony $1500 SACD/cd player that I have used maybe 5 times in the last 10 years. With high res files and ... | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." Mahgister-what makes you think you are the only 1 that knows certain things? For most of us that spend tens of thousands of dollars on gear, don’t you think these same people know how to treat their room? The room is a must to do right first. A go... | |
| Best RCA interconnect up to ~$100? There aren’t any good cables around the $100 mark. I tried some of the best Blie Jean cables instead of my reference just to see what people were excited about. They were gone in no time. Save your money and get a good set of cables that you can k... | |
| W4S DAC I had the upgraded w4s dsd dac over a decade ago. 6 years ago, I thought it was better than my friends $13k msb analog dac. I sold the w4s over 5 years ago and bought a much better dac for $4k and then moved up to a highly reviewed dac for $8k. | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? All good cables sound different to me, some better than others. I stay away from silver wired cables. | |
| Help with Bricasti M3 - Get rid of wifi and hook up an Ethernet cable instead | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! 99% of these respondents probably use usb to the dac, and if this is the case, the best sound you will get is mediocre at best. Change your test: get a dac that uses Ethernet (which is far superior than usb) and test different servers. Your resul... | |
| KEF LS60 with a pair of KC62s v Blade 2 I just listened to all the Kef’s mentioned here. The LS50 Wii sounded ok before you turned up the volume then things got really distorted, even with the different settings on the kc62 sub. Maybe a higher crossover point would have taken some of th... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. You start with the room 1st. I built a room within a room in a custom house and the room plus treatments were $60,000, before spending 1 dime on electronics. When you are designing a custom home with a custom audio room, it’s cheaper to do things ... | |
| New Improved Fink Team Borg Episode 2 Speakers : End-Game Speakers ? Whipsaw-I had speakers with the original AMT drivers back in the 70’s so don’t say I don’t know amt. I’ve also heard many speakers that have their own versions of the amt driver. I have a smaller floor standing speaker (from 1 of the best speaker ... | |
| PS Audio New Stellar Gold DAC I’ll take the ps audio over any benchmark IF the benchmark house sound sounds like it did years ago: ear bleeding analytical sound, go into an audio show room and come out in seconds with a headache. PS Audio dacs, just the opposite. | |
| USB Cable Audiotroy- you don’t know what you don’t know! You call people dumb when all you do is try to sell someone gear that you carry. Everybody can see this. If you call us all dumb, I’m going to say you can’t hear. If you think usb sounds good, then y... | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER Mahgister- "you don't know what you don't know". In this case, this doesn’t have anything to do with system synergy, IMO it has everything to do with the quality of the dac and the preamp. A lot of dacs are noisy when using as a preamp so a prea... | |
| The latest audiophile streamer craze Mesh networks: WiFi 6 or WiFi 6e? What are you using for the backhaul? If you put in a mesh network, know what to buy, and how to set it up. There is more to it than unboxing the nodes and turning them on. | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... Lalitk- you don’t know what you are talking about. I would take ps audio equipment over most of what you own. If you want the true sound, get it at the source, before the recording. The amps that rock/blues/jazz groups use for example are fairly ... |