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| 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... | |
| A brief review of GR Research Bully @moonwatcher +1 While I've not heard any of his upgrades or speakers, his analysis of faults spot on. I've been doing my own mods to speakers for decades, so many manufacturers leaving so much on the table, and this to save a few bucks, I don... | |
| Six DAC Comparison Based on my research the Mojo dacs have the technology to be top tier, chokes in power supply, nude Vishay resistors, I use both choked linear power supply for some of my streaming components and nude Vishay in my present 300B amps, have used them... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I can see where using a general purpose computer in bridged mode could make sense. In this case the computer is used as a server, this means something like Roon core only on computer, this connected to a streamer, various companies make these, in ... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship @dbb What you're hearing now much more in line with what I'm hearing and have heard all along. On to last nights listening session, now at just over 200 hours. Every listening session is revelatory with this dac, I constantly and consistently ... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? If the usb in DDC is superior to the usb in your streamer you have a pretty poor streamer. As for I2S in general, many of the best streamers don't even offer it, they concentrate on usb and in some cases AES/EBU. I agree with deep_333 in that... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? DDC effectiveness generally with I2S, I2S input on many dacs allows local or host clocking, host or DDC clock may be superior to dac clock. I don't see the point of adding DDC for usb unless streamer usb really poor. I agree with prior poster ... | |
| Open baffle speakers I ran various model Alon/Nola for years, certainly a different presentation vs box. Open baffle need to come out from front wall and likely need more absorption on that front wall vs. diffusion for box speakers. I actually preferred the way they i... | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it I find it hard to believe the issues mentioned here with app itself are inherent to Roon. Vast majority of issues I've seen with Roon on various forums are outliers, otherwise we'd see same issues with mass numbers of users. Best I can come up is... | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it I use rips from Synology NAS, streams from both Tidal and Qobuz, Roon radio stations, have library along line so 12k albums and never have issues. Again, I suspect OP has some kind of OS issues causing conflict. @jji666 Curious as to whether ... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I started streaming with a general use PC laptop, then went to stock Mac Mini, this setup to be used solely as streamer, therefore max services disabled, this was easily heard improvement over the laptop. Next was a newer generation mini, this one... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move Certainly there are certain designed in limitations with wide baffles of stock Klipsch Heritage. All the more reason to really pay attention to physical setup of system in room. Close to wall positioning in order to reinforce bass will compromise ... | |
| Isolation transformer question The only time I had intrusive hum on the Plitron within my BPT was when I had an over voltage situation with my provider, 125-126V. I also had noisy power trans. in my Art Audio 845 and Coincident 845 amps, I ended up building bucking trans. to qu... |