philgo01
Responses from philgo01
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? It is so subjective.... Double Blind testing is the only fair way of doing an honest assessment so as to eliminate any biases. | |
| Schiit Audio Email responses can take a few days... Great value at amazing price points, and Made in the USA ! Ticks all the right boxes for me. | |
| Which sounds better: I2S or Coax. My understanding of I2S especially for SACD playback is there is no industry standard hence some manufactures of I2S capable DACs built in some configurability of their I2S pinouts (in this case, I think HDMI). SACD DSD playback with I2S seems so... | |
| MoFi controversy Consumers felt that MoFi was not transparent and the fact that they charge $125 for what is essentially a digitally sourced pressing is what rubs people the wrong way. I have no dog in this fight. I get all my high quality records from Analogue Pr... | |
| worth the jump to Cornwall IV's from Forte IV's? Check out Andrew Robinson's channel on Youtube on this very topic: | |
| So I bought the Willsenton R-800i I've always wondered about after sale support from the likes Wlllsenton, Cayin, and multiple seemingly well regarded amps that don't have wide distribution in the USA. That's the major reason I stayed away from them. | |
| Class D Integrated Amplifier Recommendations. I am thrilled with my Marantz Model 30 integrated amp. Stereophile has a nice review and is a "2021, 2022 Recommended Class A" ... Now my setup includes an A/B switch (One Little Bear) that allows me to select this Class D amp OR a Class A... | |
| Why Is Hi Fi Gear So Darn Expensive? I never understood $100K amps, $250K speakers, $50K streamers.. Yet, I am totally ok with it. It's called capitalism.. The market will sort itself out in the long run ! | |
| Best streamer for a returning audio guy Bluesound is supposed to be very well regarded at a fair price. I am waiting for their update to the Vault 2i and I like to rip all my CDs too. I use Amazon Music as my streaming service which means having streamers that work with Amazon Music n... | |
| I2s DSD My understanding (no first hand experience though) is if your SACD transport has I2S using HDMI type of connector, it will only work with the same branded DSD capable DAC that also has I2S using HDMI ...e.g. PS Audio SACD transport to PSAudio DAC ... | |
| SACD repair? I have a 20+ year old SONY CD/SACD carousel type of player. On SACD Hybrid discs, it only reads the CD Layer. On SACD only layer discs, it still reads SACD !!! Decided against any repair and bought me a nice Marantz SACD30n SACD network player. H... | |
| Digital Interconnects - Which one is the BEST ??!! I primarily use SPIDIF (optical and coaxial(via RCA, not BNC)) and it works very well for me. I am confident USB , AES/EBC and others can sound better but to my ears, it is splitting hairs... | |
| Looking for an integrated amp to replace my Cayin A-50T There are so many good SS integrated out there (Outlaw comes to mind) ... Some can be had for way under $500. If it is truly a backup solution (until this tube pricing madness settles), I would not spend too much. Hard to replicate the tube soun... | |
| Caveat Emptor I’ve bought from Apos twice and it was an uneventful process. They even price matched. | |
| Pre for Cayin's integrated? Might be a little to late to the party... but Pre-In is designed so that the volume control is done on the external device (pre-amp, A/V receiver like for home theater etc). |