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| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. Over the years I've gone back and forth with upgrades to analog and digital in my system. For me planned upgrades to either side need to outperform the present superior side. I'm presently at point where it will take $10-20K to bring analog up to... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @emailists + Yes, it may be a relatively smaller expenditure that improves sound to a much greater extent than that expenditure's incremental or percentage of total system cost. And yes, this much greater than expected performance requires a total... | |
| Objective Opinion? I think I've found it! My male cat has never had any interest in listening session, sleeps well away from stereo, the female loves to listen. Goes to show some women love high end audio. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I've contemplated selling two of my leisure only cars in this market and use the funds for audio upgrades. Originally the plan was to purchase dac in price range of $10-20K, no longer interested in using those funds on digital side of system, 005 ... | |
| Is there any one piece of vintage gear you most wished you owned? I do have two vintage items purchased from my wish list, NOS Revox A77 half track and 80's era Klipschorns. | |
| USBe Perfect A streamer/server that has high quality usb renderer should not benefit from daisy chaining usb decrapifier devices. Problem is too many don't, my take is for the money many spend on servers/streamers quality usb renderers should be built in. Simp... | |
| HFTs? I use them, but required judicious placement with my room and system. | |
| Is rectifier tube arcing a problem? I'm surprised Audio Note would market these amps with what seems to be a design flaw. Are others experiencing same issue, and if not, I'd think it could be improper assembly. | |
| About your music collection Wow, this thread resurrected from the dead. I'd stand behind most of what I said then, although I stream nowadays so music collection is exponentially bigger. I don't think I was saying one has to be an audiophile to be a music lover, I said I was... | |
| any thoughts? I can't see purchasing older and/or well used cd transport. Even if one believed it may provide higher quality sound than today's transports I wouldn't do it. CD transports should be considered as consumable product, defined lifespan. I had a sing... | |
| No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio Recent "Law Of Accelerated Returns" thread presents opposite argument to this. Perhaps each of us reaches a certain peak, at this point we're either motivated or stimulated enough to seek the higher peaks or turn back since the climb already under... | |
| If You And I Disagree About Audio, Who's Right? Roger Skoff tells you who to believe. I rarely respond to queries asking for particular brands and models for purchase because I've always felt self conscious about this. What makes me qualified to answer this question for another, my system, room, experience, ear/brain listening comp... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC The language of audiophiles and/or terms and words we use to describe sound is an attempt to objectify an inherently subjective experience. Melm's one example of descriptions of 'analog like' goes to show how it can have different meanings to dif... | |
| Anyone have experience with Willsenton tube amps or specifically the R800i (92lbs)? I've run 845 SET for years, and yes they get hot, can be considered space heaters. Nice in winter, not so much for summer, I have 300B for summer. I'd imagine Willsenton is likely hotter than my 845's as nearly double the power, power is heat. | |
| Usb or Optical That SMSL is rare streamer/dac with optical input, so optical solution really inexpensive for you. Whether usb or optical superior will have to be determined by you. |