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| Class D Amplification Announcement and if a reviewer was to say anything negative about a piece of equipment they are reviewing, wouldnt that hurt the company that made it as well as the review company ? @riley804 Having written professional reviews for 15 years or so, I was nev... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience If I had the budget I would’ve jumped on an Innuos Zen Mk3 not only for the streaming quality but also because I could just load the rest of my CDs not available for streaming and have everything all in one place. Alas, for now I’m still quite im... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement The journalistic integrity of TAS is unquestionable. Furthermore, I have never heard of Mr Valin being proven wrong. @psag You have got to be kidding me. TAS reviews are a joke, mainly because they never put their balls on the line and bother t... | |
| Basic question about power/watts I’m afraid at a $1000 budget you may be doomed to failure. Not only because of the amp, but also because you apparently also need a preamp — do not neglect the importance of the preamp. Your most cost-effective option is probably an integrated a... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience I just wanted to do a separate post for those who may want to stream Qobuz through the iFi Zen as Qobuz as of yet cannot stream direct to the Zen. At first I thought maybe I made a horrible mistake getting the Zen as my sole source for streaming i... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience BTW please ignore silly comment that a LPS for digital audio is snake oil. Utter nonsense. Best wishes. @charles1dad Yeah, I know. I was just trying to be nice instead of my more normally cantankerous self. I use the iFi iPowerX power supply ... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience @charles1dad I use the SPDIF from my Oppo as a transport so obviously could be better. But I will say that steaming with the Zen Stream is vastly superior in every way over playing CDs in my current setup. Not even close. | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? but I have a hard time seeing a commensurate increase in sound quality from a good DAC/streaming setup to a $5k CD setup. @tylermunns I did too until I actually got my dedicated streamer up and running. My streaming quality now far surpasses... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience LPS for digital is snake oil. That is not the impression I get. I read plenty of reviews where using an upgraded power supply greatly improves the performance of the iFi Zen Stream, including several posters here. | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience @pdreher Nice system. I’m using the iPowerX and haven’t had the courage to pull it out to make a comparison, but by all accounts the upgraded power supply makes a big improvement. Love to hear your thoughts if/when you get the new PS. | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? @sbank That’s an excellent idea that I will definitely pursue at some point. | |
| Musician pegasus DAC or Denafrips Aries 2 @vthokie83 Please do update. I’d be very interested, and frankly I’d be surprised if this doesn’t produce a relatively large improvement that results in near end-game performance. But that’s just a guess. | |
| Purifi v Gan amps? Although from what I have heard Purifi amps do have a sound and it is characterised by by sounding veryclear and detailed but also quite flat/2D and having very poor timing and musical communication. Heard from where? I heard the world was fla... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? One thing overlooked is all the time, money, blood, sweat and tears it can take to assemble a fine streaming set up. Mastering that, how could anyone say it's not as good as playing a CD? All I did was add the iFi Zen Stream (with upgraded powe... | |
| Musician pegasus DAC or Denafrips Aries 2 My Pontus II was better than every DAC up to $6,000 that I tested or heard.....including the more expensive Venus II. @vthokie83 Yeah, I recognize there are some superior parts/design advantages of the Pontus ll over the Pegasus (not to menti... |