parker65310
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| How eclectic is your taste in music? For me music is literally the soundtrack to life. The pieces that hit me like a ton of bricks and hook me forever always instantly take me back to when I first heard them or had a memorable experience such as when I first heard Mazzy Star - Fade I... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? With opera you really don’t need to understand the words, but to listen to an entire opera I do feel one must know the story and it is then still enjoyable not knowing the language. I levitate for sure more to compilations where I’m comfortable ju... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? @whart ...your comment “I’ll listen to anything once. I’m not much for opera largely out of ignorance.” caught my eye. Check out the outstandingly engineered and my go-to opera compilation classic and see what you think... “Pavarotti - 24 Greatest... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? I’m all over the map of genres depending on my mood. For me, I know a song is timelessly beautiful if I get that tingling down my spine. If it happens once it will happen every time. I’m getting that feeling as I type this listening to the 36 minu... | |
| Opinions on Silnote Cables I’ve had Silnote’s Morpheus XLR to XLR interconnects between my BAT VK-5i tube preamp and BAT VK-600 with bat pack solid state beast of an amp for a couple years now. After that I bought their XLR to RCA Morpheus to go between my preamp and MHDT O... | |
| Name the most recent album that has shaped your musical world You’re welcome. I’ve got lots more artists most haven’t heard of that are great. Always happy to share my music obsession! | |
| Name the most recent album that has shaped your musical world I work from home and play music all day, every day. I like most all genres of music; however, when working I tend to levitate towards ambient music. My foray into ambient really started with my deep love for Moby. I’ve created huge (4 x 4,000+ cut... | |
| The conclusion I've reached about speakers I would ask you if you ever tire of spouting out nonsense, but unfortunately this clearly isn’t a possibility. If this hobby we all love (as in everyone but you apparently) is such a fraud why haven’t you moved on? You don’t add anything meaningfu... | |
| Distortion using Node 2i as streamer with Denafrips Pontus Dac I run the Node2 as a streamer with my MHDT Orchid via digital optical cable and couldn’t be happier. I definitely don’t think your issue originated with the Node2. | |
| Budget Tube Preamp ($2000) I absolutely love my BAT (Balanced Audio Technology) VK-5i balanced XLR tube preamp and there happens to be one for sale for exactly $2,000 on Audiogon right now. The build quality is second to none with BAT. Victor’s designs are legendary. I high... | |
| A real "wake up call" available to most....High End Audio vs. Mainstream...... In many, many cases it simply comes down to priorities. I have friends that without saying it I can tell don’t understand why I spend what I do on my audio system (implying a wonder of how someone has the money to do what I do). Meanwhile, they li... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC While Stereophile has always been my go-to for reviews keep in mind they don’t review every DAC (includes the MHDT Orchid) and most, if not all, of the DACs you cite are considerably more expensive. In the Orchid’s case there is an excellent revie... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC I’ve got the BlueSound Node2. About 2 weeks ago I purchased the MHDT Orchid. I use Tidal Hi-Fi exclusively. The Node2 does all of the MQA unfolding and then sends it to the Orchid via digital coax. I opted for the upgraded Tung-Sol 2C51 tube that ... | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? I’ve got the Node2. There is no difference in sound quality between it and the 2i. For its price point the DAC in the Node2 is fine. It was a big jump recently adding an MHDT Tube Orchid (tube is on analog stage) DAC. I like having the streamer an... | |
| Tidal MQA vs Qobuz hi-res I’m not a proponent of MQA because it is a way for the music industry to further leverage musicians. That said, I’ve listened to many excellent Tidal MQA albums and some that aren’t anything great. Like any recording, the sound quality hinges on t... |