soix
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| 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... | |
| Streamer creates a Wow experience What DAC(s) are you feeding the iFi, and do you feel it is now close or even better to your CD playback? @blisshifi I’m feeding the Zen Stream into a Musician Pegasus, and its not even close — the streaming is now far superior to CD. Didn’t se... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? Are there a substantial number of well recorded performances recorded on CD which can’t be found via streaming services, or where the streaming version is sonically inferior to the CD? No, but the ones that I have — probably around 20 CDs or so... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? My streaming now sounds better than playing CDs. The only reason I keep my transport around is to play stuff that isn’t available to stream. | |
| Preamp/DAC Suggestions Looking for something that will give me a really quiet background and more soundstage. I owned a Bryston BP6 and it offers these qualities in spades and could save you $$$. I wrote a review on Soundstage and bought the review sample if you want... | |
| Basic question about power/watts Yeah, I think it’s likely your amp isn’t up to the task. As far as Watts, it’s about headroom and allowing the amp to work in its comfort zone. Many amps will not be at their best when being pushed to deliver near their max output level, and it’... | |
| Purifi v Gan amps? It’s pretty clear both technologies offer some high performance potential. To me, I wouldn’t worry so much about the technology and just focus on whatever amp offers the sound characteristics you’re looking for. | |
| Joseph Audio Pulsar2 vs dynaudio confidence 20 vs tad-me1 I worked for Magnolia and got to spend a lot of time with the 805 D3, and I’m also very familiar with the Pulsar. The 805 is a nice, clean-sounding speaker, but to me the Pulsar does just about everything better and just plays at a higher level o... | |
| 12 inch subwoofer overkill for desktop setup? Depends how big the desk is. |