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| Music for Working Creatively – I need your help! Any Steely Dan. | |
| Recommendation Request: Headphone Amp/DAC combo Personally at that level I’d be looking at a separate amp and DAC instead of a combo unit. | |
| Need help, what am I missing??? Why not run the USB from the streamer into the Hermes and have it and the Elite feed through i2S? Not sure what to say about the Brennan, but why not just feed that too into the Hermes and have it go through the i2S with everything else? Maybe I’... | |
| The end of physical media is neigh Not surprising Blu-ray is going away. With CDs there will maybe be enough die hard audiophiles to keep the market afloat because they think it sounds better. My take is that streaming can sound as good or better than CDs (plus you get hi res in ... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps Well, I had a good conversation with Pat this morning and it appears it would be unfair to malign him or SMC audio over this incident. It looks like this was probably more the result of a miscommunication with a seldom-used outside sales person t... | |
| Suggestions for replacement speakers Your big limitation is only having the speakers 2’ from the back wall. That pretty much eliminates ML as they’re dipoles, and the Vandy’s also need some space to fully open up and exhibit their excellent 3D imaging capabilities. Sure, you can pl... | |
| Question on Speaker Placement Echo others I’d think you’d hear a volume imbalance given the reinforcement from the wall in the one speaker, but apparently it’s not affecting you. You might consider trying some sound absorption behind that speaker just to see if you get an imp... | |
| Upgrade from Revival Atalante 5s The Joseph Audio Perspective 2 would be worth a good look. | |
| ATC SCM40A speakers Couple thoughts — if you can get the v2 version as apparently the tweeter has been greatly improved among other things. And I’m surprised nobody mentioned the midrange dynamic capabilities of the ATCs. They will absolutely stomp the B&Ws in ... | |
| Streamer and DDC (I need AES/SpDif output) I’d think an Innuos Zen/Zenith paired with a Denafrips Hermes could be sublime. Great sound quality, OCXO clock, and, importantly, you get Innuos’ outstanding Sense app. Just my $0.02 FWIW. | |
| EverSolo DMP-A8 with Denafrips Pontus 15th, both have i2S One thing to keep in mind — i2S was not designed to travel distance and the signal degrades rapidly so you want the HDMI cable to be as short as possible. Optimally it should be no more than a foot, but if you have to go longer go as short as pos... | |
| Do I Really Need a Dedicated Streamer? I tend to disagree with @jl35 a little bit on this. While I agree Tidal/Qobuz will sound better than Spotify given good enough equipment, my improvement with a streamer over the iPad was so large I have to think you’d still notice a significant i... | |
| Do I Really Need a Dedicated Streamer? Ok, I’m gonna answer your question directly. I started streaming with my iPad and it sounded fine but CDs sounded better by a good margin and I was disappointed. The good folks here encouraged me to get a streamer, so I got an inexpensive iFi Ze... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @rubicon15 Hey, he was berating a reputable business unfairly and I called him out on it and I was right. Sorry if that hurts your little feelings. | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @cheeg I think it depends on what version of the upgrades you have. Mine was done a couple years ago and my power switch is just a dummy light — not my favorite feature. Should be pretty easy to tell if your power switch is active just by turni... |