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| Are There Roon Ready I2S Streamers? Key is matching streamer to dac, purchase as package. Lots of nice dac's with optimized usb boards, which means quality clock, dedicated power supply, galvanic isolation all within dac, in this case optimized usb rendering from streamer and you're... | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth I obsessed for years over speaker placement, room interactions, treatments, this with both open baffle and box/ported speakers. And yes, this obsession paid off handsomely. And then a few years ago, some Klipschorns fell into my hands, expecti... | |
| MoFi controversy MOfi’s statement: “utilizing original master tapes” would not be misleading if those master rapes are digital. Only in a literal sense, wink, wink, nod, nod. They know their market is people looking for finest analog reproduction, digital ma... | |
| Dac or Power regen, which gets the better cable? @mceljo I leave it to posters to decide what's best for them, just going with the wave. My use of best in regard to my own setup is used in same manner. Yeah, using best as objective term in this subjective endeavor is a fools errand. | |
| Review: The Audiogon Discussion Forum itself 😉 @mapman Yes, so much better these days! Also starting to notice more new posters with valuable input, perhaps a kinder, gentler Audiogon will entice more to contribute. The round and round endless political crap belongs elsewhere, as well as the c... | |
| MoFi controversy I don't get using digital in analog chain, much prefer my vinyl analog mastered. To pay these prices for analog/digital hybrid doesn't make sense. Get a real nice streaming/cd setup and hear these recordings with both excellent sound quality and a... | |
| Elrog 300b vs we300b Charles, it may be due to the rugged build quality of the 'real' WE's, Makes sense a rugged tube run harder would have greater drive as it may be running in it's sweet spot vs. less rugged which may be on knife edge of performance envelope. If thi... | |
| Elrog 300b vs we300b @charles1dad I can only tell you I've not seen a single instance of premature failure of WE, only other tube meets this threshold is EML XLS. This through years of research of nearly all forums on interweb. I worry about durability of every other ... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming Continuing experimentation with optical continues causing me to reassess its value in all instances. I've been using generic FMC, with lps and quality power cables prior to server for past month or so, thought I had pretty good handle on sound qua... | |
| Elrog 300b vs we300b The Psvane and Linlai WE clones aren't their top of line tubes, wouldn't expect they'd compete with the real WE. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @rrboogie I'm biased in that I believe the preamp should be considered as package with sources, ie. as important as the source itself. 005 potential such that it could benefit from cost no object pre's, I've used 005 straight thru, no pre, with M... | |
| Go get out your pitchforks, I’ve done a sacrilegious thing. . . Test of transparency is between no Loki in system vs Loki. Assuming no absolute transparency, I can see the tradeoffs being in Loki's favor. As with @ghdprentice I have no need, have voiced system to sound best with widest variety of recordings. ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @yyzsantabarbara So I spoke with Andrew at SGC, states they continually receive promises of parts delivery, never delivered, so in process of redesigning OR and OM, who knows when these become available again. These supply chain issues are crazy ... | |
| Dac or Power regen, which gets the better cable? I'd bet best VD power cord on every component would be better yet. Weak links are still weak links, just altering where you place them, hoping weakest link is on least important component. I gave up on this way of thinking over time, now I just bi... | |
| Cables recommendation I've been observing cable threads for far too long. I can never makes heads or tails of them, I'm sure I could collate the entirety of them and find reviews claiming a particular cable or line of cables as best ever, others would state it being te... |