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| DAC diminishing returns Shouldn't preamp, analog volume control be considered part of price/performance ratio. Many dacs don't have any means of volume control, others strip bits. In order extracting maximum potential from these dacs requires some form of volume control... | |
| Don't do me any favors Whoopie, we need another political thread disguised as audio thread. Put on repeat. | |
| Holo Audio Titanis Interesting discussion on clocks. https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/upgrading-a-dac-clock-is-a-fool%E2%80%99s-errand.19185/ | |
| How did you get started in this hobby Long and winding road, far too long to get into here. Can't recall a time when music and audio sound quality didn't intrigue me, was taking apart cheap junk audio equipment at early age, trying to figure out how it worked, doing stupid things like... | |
| New equipment I'd have to agree with slaw in that I can enjoy both as well. Likely every listening session of mine has a bit of the analytical as I'm still experimenting with entire streaming setup, changes constantly ongoing so my attention is purposely direct... | |
| Uptone Audio LPS-1.2 Failures Uptone is great company, Alex great communicator and John great designer. Uptone supports their products, as stated previously, many LPS 1.2 sold, bound to be some failures, and amperage produced relatively low, means its going to run hotter vs hi... | |
| Holo Audio Titanis I hadn't realized that. Phoenix obviously designed for dac with top flight usb board installed. These boards have high quality OXCO clocks, adding another clock would be redundant. | |
| Mono block Preamp Coincident Statement linestage is true dual mono, to get all those parts into one chassis would require it to be quite large and affect performance, what with emi/rfi. Two chassis, one control unit, signal path only, other for power supply. I thin... | |
| New equipment I'm sure you guys realize one get both tone and texture along with greater resolving capabilities these days. Some amazing equipment out there, and getting better over time. You can have your cake and eat it too. I'm at point where I'm unsure ... | |
| Holo Audio Titanis Not surprising in the least. Like I've been saying the rendering capabilities of the vast majority of servers out there second rate. Nearly all usb, or any port rendering will be improved by various filters, decrapifiers or external streamers. The... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I think I've previously seen it. I'm really done with usb rendering upgrades at this point, OpticalRendu sound quality so amazing, no thought to any more upgrades here. I'd suggest you try the OR so we have comp to an optimized I2S setup. | |
| Turn down the Volume! @dain +1 on jjss49. I suspect what you heard was superior micro dynamics of horn system at low volumes. Extreme high efficiency of many horns makes them come alive at much lower volumes with extremely low power amps. Amps in sweet zone at amazingl... | |
| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? @holmz I get that. In my admittedly rare case with dual mono volume selectors one would have to rig up gear system to synchronize selectors, and then you'd lose ability to alter individual selectors. My other argument would be that stacked ste... | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? I built both mercilessly revealing and golden glow systems in years past. Golden systems could play only certain recordings, mercilessly revealing system certain others. Choices of recordings played was often imperceptible, it would only be in the... | |
| New equipment Sounds like new equipment syndrome. Initial insertion inherently brings on analytical mode of listening. Generally, we give new item at least 100 hours for burn in or adjustment of perceptions, could be more hours in some cases. We then, over time... |