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| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? dCS certainly makes very nice gear, but in my experience it always sounds a little bit "artificial" compared to some of the other top brands. I can respect it, even appreciate it for what it is, but in the end I don't quite love to listen to it. S... | |
| Esoteric N 05 xd There are various settings you can choose on the N-05XD. See page 27 of the user manual, it explains the options including OFF, FIR, and RDOT, plus your choice of modulator frequencies. As usual for tweaking digital filters these are not drastic ... | |
| Ceriously, it all started with a power cable @ghdprentice Don't feed the trolls. There are so many people floating around here trying to pick fights or slam an entire userbase of audio lovers, just because they have a difference of opinion about cables. I'll never understand it. I personal... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found I still love my Veritas Connexa Ethernet cable. I get distracted easily though, and recently found myself picking up a few other Ethernet models to mess with. I had a Nordost Heimdall 2, DH Labs Reunion and a Network Acoustics Eno 2. All of them... | |
| DAC and Amplifier Synergy? I find that you really need to experiment for yourself. Unfortunately you can read all you want from reviews and forum posts, what you hear in your own room with your own ears won’t always agree. I tried the easy route and used Luxman for my DAC... | |
| Esoteric N-01XD SE vs N-01XD As far as I can tell the SE version came out early last year. I've read some feedback saying it was a pretty big improvement but hard to know for sure. I think those were people who sent in the original, and got it back with the upgrade, so no cha... | |
| Question about Break in of Weiss DAC 204 That's just the way of the internet nowadays. Everyone is an expert in everything. | |
| Millennia Media imersiv D1 Interesting, I was just reading about Bob Katz listening to a prototype that he seemed to love. I'd post a link but I lost it, surely available by googling though. I'm still not convinced better specs have anything to do with better sound once yo... | |
| Thinking about buying new Grado Headphones If you are open to the 2nd hand market I would look at the original Meze Empyrean. Beautiful headphones and most people seem to agree they are way more comfortable than Grado. Original price was $3000 but they can be had for well under $2000 these... | |
| I Was A Skeptic Now I'm Not So Sure I wish it wasn't so, I would have saved a lot of money over the years. | |
| Bryston Bdp3 Upgade Agree with the Simaudio Moon recommendation. When I was exploring options recently I really liked their gear. If I didn’t want separate streamer and DAC, I would have probably gone with their Moon 681 streaming DAC. I bet the 280D is also really g... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found The other day I asked about speaker cables and if there might be something higher up than the Aperta. They told me there is a new special edition version Aperta coming soon. I don't know if that already was discussed here yet. I plan on waiting fo... | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole That really depends on the transport (some only have USB, some have a bunch of options), the DAC (some have much better USB implementation than others), the coaxial cable, and the USB cable involved. Sometimes coaxial is the better choice and some... | |
| Yamamura cables? Yamamura? That's a blast from the past! I used to love the set of 5000 interconnects I had from them many years ago. Not the last word in resolution but very smooth and great tonality. Sorry, don't know anything about the SE version though, I woul... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found Just went for it and grabbed two sets of Argentum R interconnects for my main system. Now I am using Veritas Praesto power cables on all components, Connexa for network to my ZENith server, and soon to have the Argentum R going from DAC to pre and... |