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| Upgrading preamp. Best for under $1K Your very best value is a VTA SP-13. It has the same circuit as the SP-14, but is about half the price of the SP-14. The SP-14 is the same thing as a Don Sachs preamp (list price at $2500), but in a plain utilitarian enclosure. The SP-13 is $59... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates @mgrif104 The Dutch & Dutch 8c was originally conceived as a studio monitor. As far as I can tell, EVERYTHING about it, and every component, have been optimized. They have some of the most startling imaging I've ever heard, as well as a sup... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates @mgrif104 @vonhelmholtz Of course all of this discussion is rendered irrelevant with a system like the Dutch & Dutch 8c when you connect to it over a local IP network as a Roon target. Everything is fully contained in the D&D 8c - DSP, ... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates @vonhelmholtz I read through the link you sent. It speaks about clocking at both the source and at the target. I have to say I'm mystified as to why clocking at the source is an issue. Data being transmitted from one device to another is brok... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates @mgrif104 You write: "I completely agree that the digital data received from a PC vs a streamer (a type of PC optimized for audio quality) will be identical." This is where it doesn't make sense to me. If a DAC receives the exact same digita... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates @mgrif104 You write: "Digital data travels in analog wave form. EMF and other noise is carried along for the ride." So what you're saying is that you don't believe that the transfer of digital data from a PC to a USB DAC is inaccurate and that i... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates When you rip a CD to disk, you’re copying data off the CD. Do that 10 times and each file copy will cksum exactly the same. If it doesn’t then your data is corrupt. That’s what I mean by bits is bits. Call it a streamer if you like, but it’s still... | |
| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. The perfect loudspeaker is no loudspeaker. Go listen to live music. Even better, go record live music and then listen at home. How close to the original experience is your playback? Everything else is BS. | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? OK folks. Listen up. Here's WHY active crossovers are so very much better than passive. A single loudspeaker driver is an inductor, and provides a frequency dependent, reactive load to an amplifier. Looking at the image here, the blue line on the ... | |
| Why on earth? Listening to YouTube is 100% useless for evaluating the sound of someone's system. You're hearing mp3 quality over earphones or your desktop rig. To think that anyone could get an idea of what a system sounds like through that brings to mind ver... | |
| WiFi Streaming Versus An Ethernet Cable Connection What you've got is already as good as you can get. "Audiophile" network cable is for suckers. | |
| Why whole house surge protectors are not enough This Belkin surge protector in front of your gear rack is all you need. Less than $45. | |
| dac and streamer or seperates Bits is bits. That is the blessing of digital. If you don't trust a computer to accurately transfer bits from one place to another, then you should be very, very worried about your bank account, because your money is nothing more than memory bit... | |
| Affordable SS that sound like Tubes Look for a used Sumo Andromeda power amp. Affordable and exceptional. | |
| Help me select few vinyl LPs An absolute MUST HAVE recording is one simply titled: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Look for it. |