sns
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| Would a DDC (Denafrips Iris) improve my system? Going from an extremely optimized usb chain to I2S via Gaia was a profound change for the better. I2S has a number of inherent advantages vs. usb and those advantages should become manifest with the proper I2S setup. I'd suggest at least the H... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? So how many dac suggestions do we have here on this thread alone? Anyone shopping for a dac should be confused. My overall take on dacs, this based on countless reviews, opinions and my own listening, is that digital as it pertains to A to D a... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? No one claiming usb noisy, just that I2S has a number of inherent advantages. I also don't doubt an optimized usb setup could be superior to a less than optimal I2S setup. I used usb exclusively for years without complaint, discovered I2S simply... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? If you want to believe its only hype than it is. On the other hand, perhaps the reviews are honest opinions. Agree that I2S superior to usb, I2S native signal path in dac's, and segregated legs for data and clock another advantage. Both the Harmo... | |
| Faint buzz in speakers Level of regulation and filtering in power supplies matters, this in regard to resistance to possible external sources of noise as mentioned above. And the more efficient one's speakers are, the more they may expose noise. For instance, I have 104... | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... On one hand I can see high end audio in decline, on the other I see this as a golden age of audio. Recently I've been reading through some of my 1980-90's era Stereophile mags, fears about the decline of audio existent then just as today. There ha... | |
| another one passes. Pete Sinfield, haven't heard that name in years. "Song of the Sea Goat "from his album "Still" Memories from the old stony days. | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... How about promised tariffs. | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship This also brings to mind attempts to generalize about usb vs I2S performance. I suspect individual setups could have quite different outcomes, optimized usb at both streamer and dac could surpass less than ideal I2S outputs from streamer. I do bel... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship At some point this winter I'll likely purchase Pink Faun I2S card, or hopefully JCAT comes out with I2S card. Comparison then becomes: 1. Present setup is server-Roon core, streamer-Sonore OpticalRendu-Roon endpoint. Server>Sonore OpticalModu... | |
| Yet another Sub Question Already half way there, get the second T9x. I have two, easily beats any of the single sub setups I tried over the decades. Far better integration with main speakers, simply an extension rather than an add on. Far more forgiving of sub placement a... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I don't know if you'd call it jaw dropping, more along the lines of marketing by manipulation. Seems like every dealer had those switch boxes where they could switch out speakers, amps, what have you. Who knows what tricks they had up their sleeve... | |
| Where does music come from that streams? Bottom line for me, provenance doesn't matter much. Sound quality tells me everything I need to know about provenance. | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Two perspectives here, money vs value. Sometimes money ceases to lose much of it's value when meaningful change comes. I consider the 006, Gaia and Tubulus Ximius I2S cable as a downright steal at their full retail prices. Obviously I can't te... | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Dream System update Even the best of audio systems are equivalent to works of art virtually no one sees or appreciates, what a lonely obsession. |