surfmuz
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| Schiit Yggdrasil Less is More, is it a quality dac ? I never heard Schiit Yggdrasil but I owned Pontus-2 and construction vise Pontus looks much more serious DAC too me. Huge toroidal PSs placed in separate compartment is big advantage. | |
| What CDs to buy Explore Japanese press CDs. Lots of rare jazz titles not available anywhere else, exceptional quality, nice artworks. Could be expensive sometimes but totally worth the investment. Also CDs from Dabringhaus und Grimm label could worth your attenti... | |
| Tube or solid state Depends on your personal preferences of music choice. By my opinion tube amps couldn’t handle high dynamics of some genres. Metallicas Hardwired Album could be used as a tester. Try to listen to it on tube amp and compare to SS and you’ll understa... | |
| World's Best Stereo System ?... The best for who? R we talking about some standard universal approach here? For that matter we all need to have standard universal personality, hearing, taste. Isn’t it nonsense!? | |
| New Pink Floyd release Is any chance that part of income money from this release will be spent by Roger Waters for his support of Putins war in Ukraine ? If yes, I won’t buy. | |
| Should I buy an SME 30/12A for 15K? Gold Note Bellagio Reference (15-16K new) could be nice alternative. | |
| High-end-turntables @terry9 Yah, the idea to suggest to do not buy anything with wire transfer is pretty helpful to my opinion. If you have any other ideas, please feel free to mention. | |
| High-end-turntables Wire transfer!? To pay for the goods!? Abroad!? R you serious!? | |
| Help optimizing my streaming setup If you have Cat 8 Ethernet cable connecting your router and streamer, don’t use any galvanic isolators like EverStar MI-300, cause using it will depreciate protective porpoise of Cat 8 or Cat 7 cable Shilling. Any shielded cable connecting the gro... | |
| Pontus ii and Hi Res Pontus is not MQA capable DAC. If you want fully unfold MQA you need MQA enabled DAC or use onboard Node DAC. Optimal solution is to switch to Qobus and forget about High res limitations forever. | |
| Apple Music vs Tidal for SQ Unfortunately we don’t have proper reference Apple Music capable streamer yet to fairly compare Tidal or other streaming services to Apple Music. | |
| McIntosh Announces Mc451 Dual Mono Power Amplifier The only thing about Mac I don’t care for is the green light thing- a little much. Certainly, sound signature is on the first place and I really don’t care about colors, but colors matching. Green with blue!? What a funny combo:) | |
| Recommendations for good sounding streamer @soix Uh, no. Just…no. It’s complete shite. There’s a reason they don’t make them anymore. RIP Chromecast Audio. Can you mention that reason, and why it’s “complete shite” for streaming non Hi-Res files? Google's official reason when they d... | |
| Recommendations for good sounding streamer You don’t need $$-$$$ expensive streamer to stream Spotify. Get something like a Google Audio Chromecast, connect it to your DAC with optical Toslink to Mini Digital cable and use it as a streamer from your phone or tablet. | |
| Flat Screen Television behind speakers One of my fellows audiophile, who invested in his listening room close to $80K (equipment excluded) told me that TV installed on a certain level behind his speakers in his room actually enhances mids and makes stage wider and more holographic. |