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| The Great DAC Mystery While I'm not an EE or fully immersed in technical aspects of this hobby, what @shadorne ponders is how innovation comes about in audio equipment. Digital innovations are coming relatively fast and furious, this sort of speculation is what drives ... | |
| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui I seem to be a very unique individual in that I hope I never retire. I'm retirement age and still work 25-30 hours per week. I'm a craftsman in a family business, the pride I have in my work never grows old. Being able to have work that allows me... | |
| Streaming, Getting the Signal, Then What? Good test for quality of streaming chain. Streaming sound quality should be at least equal to cd's played over quality transport. | |
| Streaming, Getting the Signal, Then What? Welcome to the rabbit hole of streaming. At least ten years into streaming, experimenting with so many devices and it continues to this day. In general, every single link in chain important, noise introduced at any point in chain is a loss one can... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship After cooking for half a day, Harmony slaved to Gaia clock via I2S far superior to usb directly out of computer, this is to be expected as Gaia acting as 'buffer' from noisy general purpose computer, clocking aspect playing large role as well\. C... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship @catastrofe In regard to usb I was specifically comparing Laiv to 006, my take based on manufacturer info is 006 takes more pains. In any case, I didn't hear any obvious issues using Laiv usb. Have Gaia cooking with Laiv via I2S at the moment in a... | |
| SR Tuning Discs, Psychoacoustic Bias and Listening Fatigue Whether its snake oil, effective or just plain difference may be difficult to discern. Ultimately, I've come to the conclusion if it stays over the long term a positive difference is being heard. Been through plenty of tweaks over the decades, mos... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship @catastrofe Technically, I don't see anything special with usb input on Laiv. Likely I'll try Laiv in main system this week, need to get up to around 200 hours burn in on this unit, this will continue to be over usb input. I2S will come later when... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Member I'm in contact with using I2S directly out of streamer so no usb. Only 130 hours on unit at this point. I was one of those who tried I2S with 005, Singxer SU6 with pretty inferior HDMI cable, never really optimized it, sold Singxer soon... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Been privately conversing with a member here who's exclusively using I2S input on 006, has no usb capability. And since LAIV Harmony purchase planned on going I2S, I have Denafrips Gaia and two different I2S specific (no video capability) cables c... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship @brbrock Musetec states clocks are custom builds for whatever that means. LKS USB-100 uses Crystek CCHD-957, and this cheapo DDC sells for $280, can't imagine clocking in 006 being anything lesser. Really don't know how Mitch2 does it, doing a... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? There really shouldn't be any confusion about these devices, every computer or purpose built audiophile computer I'm aware of is in fact a streamer or at least has streamer capabilities. Coupling these devices to a dedicated streamer ONLY device i... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I don't get it, Audiogon generally a gathering of subjectivists, yet it seems many streaming arguments come from objectivist perspectives on data being packets of zero and ones that can't possibly be affected by noise, jitter, this is ASR nonsense... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @bill_k This is correct. A DDC is superfluous if streamer has quality clocks, low noise, optimized outputs. Jitter has long been understood to affect sound quality mostly in the sense of what is described as 'digititus'. Even extremely min... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @mitch2 Your results correlate with previous reviews I've seen for most of these dacs. Really appreciate the greater detail and comparative nature of your review vs previous I've seen. Of these dacs, the Mojo's have long been on my list of 'want t... |