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| What am I missing? Don't mean to drag this out, but I think maybe you don't understand what remastering is. It has nothing to do with bitrate. @mirolab You may well be right, but I’m willing to learn and would love to hear your thoughts. It’s hard for me to ima... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz Your I phone in my case has to download and IFI app and the you would stream your qobuz app for song listings??? Pretty close? @robshaw I guess you could do it that way, but I just went to the iFi website and enabled the connection there. Sorry... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz @robshaw Heh heh. I hear ya and I have little patients for tech snafus myself. If you don’t like the Qobuz interface you ain’t gonna like MConnectHD any better, but I find it at least serviceable. At $399 the ZS provides a lot of sound quality ... | |
| What am I missing? @mirolab Everything has absolutely not been remastered — that’s ridiculous. Switch to Qobuz. My DAC says everything is 16/44.1 or better, and my streaming now sounds better than spinning discs. Tidal sucks as does their absurd and total BS MQA al... | |
| What am I missing? Nearly everything on streamers has been remastered to be very loud and compressed @mirolab That’s just not true. Sites like Qobuz and Tidal exist to stream content in full CD 16/44.1 resolution. And a lot of music is available in hi-res that ... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz @robshaw Goodonya for keeping an open mind on this, and you’ll be richly rewarded for any effort you make toward getting a separate streamer. BTW, totally agree with you on Qobuz, and I prefer the Amazon interface too but not at the expense of sou... | |
| Streamer/CD ripper I wouldn’t worry too much about ripping CDs if you subscribe to something like Qobuz as most of your CDs will likely be available there and some even in hi-res. I rarely spin a CD anymore. I’d recommend looking at the Innuos Zen Mk3 for a stream... | |
| Kal was right! Congrats! I love hearing stories where people hear a component and just “know” it’s right, because it’s very special and rare when it happens. I’m a big Vandy 5a fan so would welcome your thoughts on both if you can. | |
| Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market LOL, we have as many nominees as we have posts. Perhaps testimony to a good question, right? @retrocrownfan You nailed it. The OP didn’t feel it necessary to share what sound characteristics he’s looking for, and the result is recommendatio... | |
| Streamer upgrade? The only thing I’d add is that I now feed my Musician Pegasus DAC (very close relative to the Pontus ll) with a Denafrips Iris DDC to take advantage of the i2S connection and the improvement over USB was substantial — no contest, and this is using... | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? If your ears are happy, what does Asinine Science Review have to do with that? They’d have you think a $100 Topping DAC is superior to Musetec, Denafrips, etc. based solely on measurements. They don’t trust their own ears so they have to resort ... | |
| wanting to take a digital step @charles1dad Sorry, I can’t answer your very good question yet as I’m away from home and so haven’t yet been able to compare one versus the other. But, I have a specific issue that I’m using Qobuz via an MConnectHD app with my iFi Zen Stream (iFi... | |
| Streamer upgrade? Agreed and think you’re gonna be very happy with the N200 and Pontus ll. Looking forward to your thoughts. | |
| Joseph Audio: Perspectives and Pearls This might be a bit of a long shot, but there’s a guy selling his Sapele Perspective 2s on USAM who’s upgrading to Pearls, so I’d think he’d have some very good insights regarding their similarities and differences if you can get in touch with him... | |
| Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market A used pair of Joseph Audio Pulsars would be worth considering, and while I’m no interior designer I think your wife would not be offended by their looks. If looking for new speakers I’d look at the Usher Mini-X DMD that uses the same top diamond ... |