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| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @teajay What is the name you use for reviewing and where are your reviews published?As I have suggested to others including @audiotroy in the past, it helps everyone when those in the industry sign their posts identifying themselves as such, (e. g... | |
| SOTA vs VPI (or stick with my Rega?) @gritter2 If you haven't decided yet, I have lot to say adding to the get a Sota over a VPI camp, but I won't post it if you are already set. Coming from a former top tier VPI owner. Cheers, Spencer | |
| I'm happy with my cleaning method of LP's but am I missing anything? Since you already have everything you need for doing a post-ultrasonic rinse & vacuum, you won't have to spend more than about $150 to get a good U.S. tank, $300 for a vinyl stack to spin the records in the tank and a few bucks on chemicals th... | |
| Can Streamed Music Sound Better than any other source? This has been covered a hundred or more times here. I suggest you do a deep dive and read similar threads.Long story short, streaming, especially with Tidal & Roon can sound pretty good, but not as good as streaming high rez or well recorded C... | |
| Using Macbook Air as audio source Marcus, you can get good sound w/Mac as a source, but I would strongly suggest better software than iTunes. Audirvana+ is a good place to start w/Mac as source. Rip all your CDs into AIFF format(mac and iTunes compatible) and Buy downloads in high... | |
| Speaker Help Actually that link says the Chapmans, which I've never heard, have front firing woofers, not side firing. I was going to warn you that side firing woofers need plenty of room between them and often sound best when placed on the long wall in a rect... | |
| Super Hi Rez Downloads by Acoustic Sounds You need a NAS, or computer to store the files. You need a network player or streamer that can access files on a local drive or network drive and some software to play them. Read some reviews on computeraudiophile or stereophile's audiostream site... | |
| Speaker Help What did you like or dislike about the ones you mentioned? What's your budget?Vandy & McCormack is a known good combo. 3A or Quatro might be a starting place. Ever listen to Sonus Fabers? If you can afford them Peak Consults are nice and not t... | |
| Better CDP or network player? Bryston & Vandy is a great combo from two of the credible, most solid supportive companies in the game for the long haul. Smart, safe choices.To address your questions in order, first, yes USB can be troublesome but in the last few years much ... | |
| Better CDP or network player? @shadowcat2016 , A couple of things:Schiit Yggydrasil certainly DOES play hi-rez. So do most of their lower priced models. Correct, it doesn't play DSD. Because they don't believe DSD sounds better. I can tell you that ripping SACDs to a server is... | |
| Better CDP or network player? In the same boat a couple of years ago, although I didn't have more than a handful of SACDs. I am still very happy with the decision I made to go to a server. computeraudiophile had much helpful info from those who seem most informed on the topic.... | |
| When did AudiogoN become a Showcase for The Music Room? @aolmrd1241 Same thing happened to me about a month ago. Even asked me to fill out the form on their site after talking w/me about it. Never contacted me. I won't be calling again. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Backert Labs Rhumba preamp @atmasphere Ralph, when I said "voice" I certainly wasn't implying that you are doing anything to taint the signal, but rather that when listening and developing designs your judgements are coming from a musician's perspective. For example, trying... | |
| Backert Labs Rhumba preamp Since I know Andy really well, and sorta know Ralph as a former customer, I won't go on in any detail here, but wanted to point out that it's pretty cool that both the Backert & Atma-Sphere gear is voiced by performing (in Andy's case -- profe... | |
| if I buy an ultrasonic cleaner for my records will I be able to hear the difference? @rollintubes Amen, bro. What he said. Except for being too cheap to being a Cyclone to do the drying, I'm doing the same. I bought a 3D-printed attachment with velvet brush that slides onto a shopvac. With my lazy susan-based manual drying station... |