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| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I'm continually amazed by the amount of information contained within 16/44 format. I've yet to have a system or source that's extracted full measure of 16/44. It would be interesting to hear of someone who believes they've heard ultimate limitatio... | |
| Does Formula 1 racing and high end audio go together for anyone else? Yes they do, but then I've long been an auto racing enthusiast, enjoy most forms of racing, ovals and road racing. Same with motorcycle racing, loving MotoGP these days, especially since purchase of my first Ducati last summer. | |
| One or two dedicated AC wire ? I have three dedicated lines, one for power conditioner for everything but the amp, another dedicated for amp, third is spare. All three 20amp, 10 gauge Romex, and all three dedicated ground wire to new grounding rod, All grounding wire must be sa... | |
| Klipsch Forte IV ... what amp ? I've used Prima Luna Dialogue Four, custom built 300B SET monoblocks and Coincident 845 SET amp with my Klipschorns which has impedance drop to around 3 ohm at 100hz, sensitivity is higher at 104db. I've also auditioned Music Fidelity M2SI and De... | |
| Tweaks, money pit or real value? Out with all the 'tweaks,' no more audio rack, footers, dedicated AC lines, AC power conditioners, room treatments, back to generic power cords, IC's, speaker cables, digital cables, streaming out of general service computers and no cares about st... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Rickie Lee Jones, "duchess of coolsville" Ian & Silvia, "The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings" | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Good dac and people, whats not to like! In regard to low level detail and ambient noise levels. Continual improvements to my system since getting 005 about a year and half ago have resulted in ever lower noise floor and exposure of low level i... | |
| Records, CDs, Streaming 95% digital, about 60/40 split between streams and cd rips from my over 2500 cd collection. Vinyl is for nostalgic listening sessions, beginning to doubt whether even worth it to upgrade my vinyl setup at this point. | |
| Where did he go? Well, you'd hope for evolution, and this for entire humankind. | |
| Vacuum Tube TestingI'm TC tube testing out of Minnesota, use Amplitrex. I've had good results with them. | |
| Is Old Music Killing New Music? I find it incredible that people find dearth of new music that is worthwhile. But then I see the threads listing music played last night and no longer incredulous. I'd say my streaming listening sessions split pretty much 50/50 between old and... | |
| How to make small room sound bigger All above plus you may want to try some of the Synergistic HFT. While my room is larger, I've found using these behind listening position on side walls helps to further scale up size of room. This has been added to room treated mostly with diffus... | |
| Usb or Optical People need to keep this conversation on track. Toslink has no bearing in streaming, toslink is inferior optical connection between two digital devices, generally cd transport. This thread is steaming oriented, we're talking about network optical.... | |
| Usb or Optical Just to throw a monkey wrench into this. Another option that hasn't been mentioned is a second ethernet port on server, this way you avoid the lousy motherboard issues with usb or optical. Simplifies network as you can do server>FMC>streamer... | |
| Usb or Optical First thing is to determine best input on dac, generally going to be usb with most. Once you determine this, you then optimize the compatible output on server or streamer. Optimization means both inputs and outputs optimized, otherwise not truly o... |