sns
Responses from sns
| To Battery Or Not To Battery (12 Volt) Back in the day I had N.E.W. (Nirvana Electronic Werkes) class a SS amp that ran off 4 wheelchair 12V batteries. My Merlin VSM BAM runs off four 9V batteries. I've tried various battery packs/inverters to run some source equipment. There is a cert... | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? @theaudiohiffle This is true as far as it goes in reference to bass on any one particular recording. Playing a multitude of recordings over a relatively long period of time will expose tonal imbalances, non pleasing tonality will rear it's ugly he... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments I'd never use dsp on an all analog system, except for subs which is practically a necessity. My experience is all the dsp software I've tried has negatively altered the presentation such that it sounds less 'natural'. Roon dsp atrocious, HQPlayer ... | |
| innuos pulse compared to denafrips gaia 12th audioman58 is the Denafrips guy to talk to. Downloading Windows drivers is a rather simple process, foolproof, very little chance of bricking your computer. I've downloaded plenty of drivers over the years on Windows computers, no big deal even fo... | |
| Buyer Beware First I heard of usb cable incompatibility, didn't think it possible. | |
| Critical listening and altered states @bolong Part and parcel of the human condition. Is reality too much or not enough? | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes If you want to get into switches that are something more than repackaged off the shelf check out the Dejitter Switch X, they have some pretty interesting perspectives on how networks can affect sound quality. | |
| innuos pulse compared to denafrips gaia 12th If you insist on I2S output not too many, most will use usb out of their streamer into a DDC in order to use I2S, this what you'd do with Pulse. As for streamers with I2S just off the top of my head Holo Red is reportedly very nice. | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? All good advice above. You will hear natural sound staging, not this over precise image placement we hear with so many recordings. Natural timbre, micro and macro dynamics should also impress. Hearing non amplified instruments with little or no ... | |
| Accuphase e5000 and EQUI=TECH Latik provides good advice. I have Balanced Audio Technology 3.5 Signature with diy mods, this transformer based conditioner, tried class A SS, push pull tubes, 845 and 300B SET, every amp has performed better straight into wall. In every case I'v... | |
| innuos pulse compared to denafrips gaia 12th I'd easily choose the Pulse over Gaia with computer as streamer. Next to the dac, streamer is most important streaming component. Using a general purpose computer as streamer means high levels of self generated noise, poor clocking, and once you'v... | |
| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? When you have red plating with tube amps until one measures plate voltages you won't know for sure if its tube failure or amp issue, you may be damaging more tubes if amp is the issue. Tubes going bad without red plating likely lost vacuum, someti... | |
| Does your DAC sound better through the S/PDIF or I2S inputs than through USB? @magon Presume that very nice cable, like silver for my digital cables, use AQ Diamond for my usb cable. The one thing I'd say about using HDMI vs I2S cable is one may be paying for unneeded runs of wire with the HDMI, silver is pretty pricey. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes And we have a most obvious comparison. How does one cd rips in local storage compare to their streams? Many report, and I agree their streams are equal to the cd rips, what does this say about the importance of server farms, clouds. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes In order to test for this one would need to directly connect their streamer to a server with locally stored files, no storage in cloud. This means server with original files at some record company/mastering concern/etc. Ain't never going to happen... |