shadorne
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| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Yes for me it is low jitter, better differential linearity and less noise with 6 bit sigma delta DACs that are the reason for recent improvements in sound.Upsampling helps randomize differential non-linearity. As usual, noise is always assumed to ... | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally @celtic66 All pale in comparison.My experience exactly. I have been using ATCs in various forms since 1994. I keep auditioning other speakers - most recently a top of the line Monitor Audio. Other SOTA speakers are indeed extremely good and I co... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Totally agree. DACs are finally getting things right. Although upsampling has been used for at least 20 years it is only recently that the higher quality of the upsampling/filtering has improved enough to really make digital more analogue sounding... | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally Welcome to a rather exclusive club. There is nothing quite like Active ATCs. Revealing, immediate and yet entirely natural sounding.You join the likes of Diana Krall to Mark Knopfler. Jack White to Coldplay to Sting to Enya to Pink Floyd. Countles... | |
| Music similar to Mike Oldfield Check out Jean Michel Jarre. Walter/Wendy Carlos. Try also early Rush 2112, hemispheres and a Farewell to Kings (Xanadu). Depeche Mode Construction Time. Jethro Tull. | |
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| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! It sounds to me like many of the contributors here have consumed quantities of mind altering substances and that accounts for the confused, disoriented, juvenile imaginings here!LOL. Confused. Disoriented. Yes.Hardly Juvenile though.Music is far f... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! @geoffkait Agreed. It is frustrating in a way. May be Carl just got carried away by his enthusiastic dreams. We are aware of our universe and billions of galaxies but nevertheless at our current level of understanding we can only watch and appreci... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! @dave_b Thx. Great post. Reminding me that Sting is such an intellectual. In these lyrics he really expresses the connectedness we all feel at times. I am as far from being a hippie as it gets but I still sense the connectedness in absolutely eve... | |
| MQA is Legit! Well, in my case I tried it, and can’t hear a difference. What’s more, the consensus of the SF Audiophile society that I talked to was the same. No one could hear anything. I find this astonishing. I wonder if most setups do not preserve phase acc... | |
| MQA is Legit! There is most definitely an audible difference with MQA. Phase distortion causes the imaging to be less accurate.Apodizing changes the timbre of transients.Easiest thing to listen for is the hole in the middle of the soundstage. Second easiest thi... | |
| MQA is Legit! MQA introduces a bunch of distortion. I have not heard a single MQA file that is an improvement on the original file. Phase distortion from minimum phase filtering is one issue. The second issue is apodizing filtering (loss of resolution). | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) @gosta Interesting. I have tried to like Monitor Audio. Certainly the detail is there but the lack of driver integration makes them sound so artificial. Just so obvious that you are listening to two or more drivers. | |
| DAC Bandwidth settings Slow roll off may lose a bit of audible high frequency and it may suffer from aliasing. It really depends on how slow is slow....as there are many degrees from fast to slow. | |
| Do $2k speakers + DSP = $50k speakers? @johnk +1 but fancy cables, re-clockers, mats, power cords, fancy fuses etc, are ALL BANDAIDS. If one has to resort to bandaids then it means the components are inadequate to begin with. |