sparksgja
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| Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound @toddalin That is good input too, although I suspect the 'being there' at a rock concert slam requires the stack you show in the photo. That level of scale and dynamics needs a room and very special system set-up to achieve that particular greatne... | |
| Favorite Tribute Albums? Being a huge fan of JJ Cale the album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale by Eric Clapton and friends including John Mayer, Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty and Willie Nelson. The album released in 2014 a year after he passed covers some amazing songs ... | |
| Chinese DAC's I’m one of @audioman58 very happy Denafrips DAC customers purchased in the past 60 days, a Venus 15th. If I look at my HiFi components they are from the US, Italy, China (Denafrips and Arendal) Although Arendal is a direct to consumer Norwegian b... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices PSAudio have just announced a new SACD transport at AXPONA for I believe $8,500 and limited to 200 units. Personally I use a PSAudio PerfectWave for SACD playback via I2S into a Denafrips Venus 15th DAC for native DSD playback and that works super... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? From the question I assume you mean the ones I spin the most, so these are my current top 20: Boz Scaggs Elvis Costello Burt Bacharach Burt Bacharach and Daniel Tashian - Blue Umbrella Recordings Chet Baker Bill Evans Pat Metheny & Ly... | |
| Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound Got to agree on the PS Audio speaker shot maybe they were trying to tackle the acceptance factor. @jsalerno277 I really like the addition of timbre it's maybe part of the "You hear details in recordings you don’t hear from lesser systems" section... | |
| Recommendation for an HDMI cable under $200 for audio only @senna27 I’ve recently been through the same search for an I2S connector and decided on buying from Ricable who are an Italian cable company. I highly recommend their SUPREME HDMI MKII Digital Video Cable HDMI 2.0 Bandwidth 29 Gbps and Audio I²... | |
| DAC break-in question @katzenjammer27 l have just purchased a new Denafrips DAC and was informed they ‘run-in’ it in for 100 hours prior to delivery. I think this is also a very good quality control move to ensure everything meets specifications and avoid any QA issu... | |
| Upgrade or Downgrade Changing Bel Canto 3.7 For New Denafrips Pontus 15th? @dickieboy That should guarantee integration but I have tried the PS Audio and didn't love the sound and for just $300 more I can get a new Pontus 15th which is really an improved Venus 12th that's almost as good as end game Terminator. But a se... | |
| Upgrade or Downgrade Changing Bel Canto 3.7 For New Denafrips Pontus 15th? @ucrazykid You are right in what you say but my SACD playback limitations are confusing. The Onkyo is only present in my system as it will play SACDs as a 'native' SACD player outputting an already decrypted digital signal to the Bel Canto throu... | |
| Upgrade or Downgrade Changing Bel Canto 3.7 For New Denafrips Pontus 15th? Thank you for that advice I will try to trial if possible. | |
| SVS SUB BETTER WITH LOW PASS FILTER OFF I have the Arendal subwoofer and set the bypass at 10hz -15 hz above the floor of my main floorstander speakers that go down to 35hz. I read somewhere that 10hz above the low was a good place to start. I too switch the low pass 12hz filter off, as... | |
| Please explain mono @bdp24 makes an interesting point, most live events are mixed in a mono fashion (there is sometimes a little panning in the PA system, but it is primarily mono to ensure the audience hear the ‘same’ concert). So when you go to gig the ‘live’ sound... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh While there will be some consolidation (usually marketing, finance, legal, HR, I doubt they will risk losing made in USA and Italy manufacturing given current situation between US and China) I wouldn’t see this as an asset striping exercise either... | |
| New Eversolo DMP-A10 No I2S is a major ommision in preamp DAC at this price point and the non-standard IS2 is a non argument when other DACs make that an irrelevance with various pinout choices easily selected to suit partnering. Apart from that personal showstopper i... |