sns
Responses from sns
| New DAC or New Streamer? I agree with others that streamer is most important, but then with upgraded streamer the dac or network will become weak link, and around and around it goes. In the end so many choices, I can't say with large measure of assurance what is best ... | |
| Tune of the Day "La Nevada" Gill Evans from "Out of the Cool" Can never get enough from that album, highlight of last night's listening session, real cooker! | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? I seem to recall reading that thread or another elsewhere with Cary amps of that vintage. I ran Cary SLM100 monoblocks back in day, had the well known issues with Jensen coupling caps, also had issues with maintaining bias on power tubes and occas... | |
| Upgrading to latest router tech, and adding a LPS power No surprise this has improved your streaming. I've experimented with modems,routers, and lps to power them over the years, all can substantially improve SQ. Good idea to provide lps with greater amperage capacity than equipment requires, less he... | |
| USB yet again One can perceive the complexities of streaming as a burden or a delight. I've found it to be much more delightful than burden, especially as the vast majority of my efforts have gone in direction of better SQ. Devoid these complexities I'd be pret... | |
| USB yet again Optimal usb implementation requires quality rendering at both streamer and dac. This means usb boards with nice power supplies powered via dedicated power supply and top flight clocks on these boards. Far too many streamers are let down by less th... | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? @fastfreight I believe that's actually Telegartner switch. I don't doubt that may be switch that may actually do some good, much proprietary engineering here. This would be only switch I'd consider after my bad experience with audiophile switch b... | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? Its not bad unit, Musetec responded to ASR by stating they voice components, measurements may take hit because of this, Musetec also admitted they didn't have the quality of measuring equipment ASR uses. It would be interesting to hear what a ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @charles1dad Very interesting piece at that price coming from Netherlands, home of some of best digital designers, for instance Taiko, Farad. Good find! @americanspirit Either the Mano or Holo would be big upgrade over any PC. I've not tried ... | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? I've owned 005 for a bit over three years now, still waiting to hear the sins of commission ASR measurements allude to. Based on their measurements I should be hearing a distorted tiring presentation, with small sound stage, 2D images, lacking in ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @debjit_g I may try another motherboard at some point, one I'm using at present was chosen by original streamer builder. He and the subsequent owner both compared to many off the shelf streamers, only the Taiko Extreme bested this custom build, b... | |
| When were the best tube amps made? Now. So many choices at so many price and quality levels. | |
| I can't believe this. Theoretically, one could wait forever if not paying the extra and individuals kept jumping the line by paying the premium. Never heard of this with audio repair before, ridiculous. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @debjit_g Very interesting! I've not felt the need to even try the USB cards as I'm so enthralled with using new streamer as server only, Sonore OpticalModule and OR doing rendering duties, thus far beats several permutations via motherboard usb ... | |
| VPI turntables I am one of those former VPI users, never quite did it for me, move from 9" to 10.5i arm not big deal. My issue is belt drive not for me, so DD VPI would be more aligned with what I'd do, and move away from unipivot. |