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| Interaural Crosstalk And Loudspeaker Setup Every room sounds different depending on diffusion panels and absorption panels, corner traps, and reflection treatments, which can be either absorption or diffusion. Done right, it allows your system to be able to sound its best. If you buy these... | |
| Streaming, Getting the Signal, Then What? Wrong. The mk2 is noisy according to reviewers, not the mk1 version. And it matters which input you are using. Maybe the usb is noisy, I would never use usb to any dac, but the i2s and Ethernet inputs are not noisy. Maybe you had an old release of... | |
| Streaming, Getting the Signal, Then What? Ignore the bs about the ps audio ds dac mk1, the guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. He also doesn’t know that the airlens with i2s makes the ds sr dac sound better. He probably uses usb which is the worst sounding interface to use, the OP ... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? All audio mag reviews are worthless. I subscribe to all of them and when a new issue arrives, I scan the conclusion paragraph looking for: best product I’ve ever heard and I’m never dissapointed. When was the last time you saw a negative review? ... | |
| Choose between McIntosh MA9000 used vs MA8950 new All dacs in a McIntosh integrated or in their preamps are a compromise. Same goes for their phono stages. I would get the 9000 with the extra power, and get a good external dac now or later on. So many better dacs for a couple thousand dollars tha... | |
| How to set up volume control on a DAC without a preamp I have used the ps audio dac with Ethernet for years and had Roon use the dac as an endpoint which I controlled the volume thru Roon. Since I wanted to use i2s, I am using the airlens in front of the dac and Roon connects to the airlens as an end... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! I’ve been streaming for almost 20 years, using Apple iTunes, amarra, pure music, audirvana, lightning DS, Lumin, and now Roon. 5 years ago when I upgraded my dac that uses i2s and Ethernet, running dsd and MQA, I sold all my vinyl and all my analo... | |
| Updating my streamer I’ll bet if the dealer carried Aurender he would change his view on what sounded best. It’s always amazing what they recommend is always the best. I have also thought most other high end streamers sounded better than aurenders. I bought the Aural... | |
| why expensive streamers The only reason I went with a streamer was to use i2s, I used ethernet prior to using i2s. All the streamer does is to accept data from another server using ethernet, then output using i2s to my dac. | |
| Comparing Aurender N20 vs eversolo dmp A8 Years ago I bought the Auralic Aries over the Aurender and Lumin streamers. The sound and the gui were much better with the Auralic. Plus Aurender units don’t have the i2s interface. | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers Since 99.9999% of all stereophile reviews end up with the reviewer stating this is the best his setup has ever sounded, best of the best, and most of the time the product competes with others that are many times the price. None of this occurred, ... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers I was in IT for over 44 years and nobody wrote sentences that bad, so being in IT is not an excuse for proper grammar. | |
| Back to the DAC Blanket statement? I’ll bet only 2% of these posters are able to test an Ethernet interface or an i2s interface. My Aurender is optimized for usb! If I had a $ for everytime I’ve heard that, I’d be rich. Years ago, I bought the top of the line Au... | |
| Back to the DAC In relation to a dac, if you are using usb, then you will never get the best sound quality from the dac. The best interfaces to a dac are Ethernet and i2s and some of the best dacs don’t even include usb. I have a highly rated dac that I used Ethe... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers At these speeds, if you placed the speaker with no feet on a stand and the stand was blocking the 4 holes, wouldn’t each speaker have lift off or at least move around on the stands? Was this port/hole speed tested in the review? |