shadorne
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| How Is MQA Fareing? @jon2020 Good article, the author seems to be without a strong technical background (gets a few things wrong or confused and some misunderstandings) but overall a good critique with solid concerns about MQA. A bit wordy. TLDR.Here is a technical s... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD So far I have not found any sound quality problems with Roon - you may want to try it. I have known for a long time that most softwares (especially Amara Jriver and others) tend to colour the sound. I don’t know if Steve is aware but the SRC conve... | |
| How can I tell if I need a better clock for my DAC? This Stereophile AES J-test includes a very high level signal mixed with a LSB (smallest signal) and is a great test for interface jitter and any modulation distortion.Ex 1. Benchmark DAC3 HGC, high-resolution jitter spectrum of analog output sign... | |
| How can I tell if I need a better clock for my DAC? Interface jitter is a fact of life. It doesn’t matter what you do. The only complete solution to interface jitter is to select a DAC device that ignores the incoming clock and uses it own internal asynchronous clock. Note that this will still leav... | |
| odd music times pieces Keep it Greasy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTLX4VxTc0&feature=share4/4, 19/16, 21/16 The Ocean Led Zep 7/8 and 8/8Check out also Karizma Document with Vinnie coliauta and Dave Garfield. Some insanely technical stuff.Radiohead did a bit of... | |
| It's Simple @ieales By recorded music I mean the final format that is used in a consumer system to play back. This is long after countless engineers have busted their asses trying to capture being in the room with the artist.Faithfully reproducing the recorde... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? @ozzy Very interesting. I find that 99% of the comments on Agon by Steve seem to be self-serving. The comments are always ultimately designed to promote his products in some way. For example, Steve maintains that no DAC maker has addressed incomin... | |
| Nad M3 non repairable I use NAD power amp for surround speakers. I never regarded the brand as good enough for a main system. Kind of a good value product rather than a serious one. Bryston is more serious and designed to be long term suppported and easily repaired. Yo... | |
| It's Simple @Dave_b Sure Dave, so happy you are fortunate enough to enjoy your “judicious ignorance”. | |
| It's Simple @ideales You clearly didn’t read what I said. I said faithful to the recorded music and NOT to the singers voice or sound BEFORE it reaches the studio microphone and is modified by said microphone. Nobody but nobody expects recorded music to repro... | |
| It's Simple @ieales. I agree with you 100% that the various recordings and masterings issued and manufactured may not be faithful to the original sound of the band. However a system’s degree of fidelity can be quantified in how faithful it is to the actual re... | |
| It's Simple @dave_b If “Everything matters and does alter the sound to varying degrees” wasnt such a gross generalization you might have a bit of a point. | |
| It's Simple @dave_b It depends on the meaning of “high fidelity”. I interprete that to mean “faithful to the source recording” which means that “more twitchy it can be to the subtlest changes in the audio chain” is NOT high fidelity but “highly finicky”.I und... | |
| Balanced cables The ferrofluid probably dried out in your midrange and tweeter. This happens after as little as 2 years depending on use. That would explain the metallic sound. Are you the sole owner? It doesn’t take much to damage those drivers - a bit of clippi... | |
| It's Simple +1 AlmargIn the end it boils down to the choice of components. Are the components high fidelity or not?Are the components designed to give accurate high fidelity that is independent of the cables used and their length or not?A setup that sounds di... |