williewonka
Responses from williewonka
| DAC connection preferred? I agree with Onhwy61 - for instance...I bought a Bifrost DAC with the USB port to stream from my iMac.In order to mitigate the obvious USB related issues, I tried a couple of USB cables and settled on a double cable that is joined at the DAC- one ... | |
| Proper Room Designs/Dimensions for Best Acoutics An acoustics guy - see...http://www.acousticfields.com/author/dennisfoley/Regards | |
| Proper Room Designs/Dimensions for Best Acoutics Handy - don't let yourself get hung-up on 90 degree corners - they are easily remedied - you can probably make a very effective bass trap with sonotube and soft coverings, like carpet- a solution I currently employ was to build two panels almost f... | |
| Proper Room Designs/Dimensions for Best Acoutics Handy - if you have any good audio stores near you, you might want to take a look at what works for them.One audio store I frequent that appears to have a very good setup for their very expensive systems - has one room as follows- 16ft x 30ft with... | |
| Audio Research DAC 7 vs Primare DAC 30 Gasherbaum - I tried to acquire a Primare Phono Stage a while back and got messed around by both the retailer and the Distributor - both in Canada.Net result - I bought a Simaudio Moon LP5.3RSJust a note of Caution :-(Regards... | |
| MC Cartridges Under $1,000 Another vote for the 103 :-)Then I bought a DL 103 modified by Soundsmith - it's AWESOME!!!- better image- more detailed highs- tighter bass- nicer control of sibilanceAs long as it's compatible with your arm.But I still keep the old Denon 103 aro... | |
| Schiit Bifrost with USB & Uber upgrades GH - thanks for that - spot on.Ottoa63 - I have tried several different power adapters and also a USB rechargeable battery.I could not tell any difference in performance between the Enercell or ASUS power adapters, even compared to a high power US... | |
| Music Fidelity V DAC vs Cambridge Audio Dacmagic I've owned the Dacmagic and I own the MF v-link192 USB/SPDIF converter.Given how the 192 transformed my Bifrost from very good to outstanding, my money would be on the V DAC.MF seems to know what they are doing when it comes to most things related... | |
| KLE Innovations zFLOW Cables: REVIEW Yping - please refer to my last posted response above to Jafant dated 09-17-15I think that about says it all.If you want to try them I'm sure KLE Innovations will be very happy to sell them to you :-)Regards... | |
| A month of tweaks Electroslacker, here's a link to the construction details of the DIY Mark V's."The Mark V" DIY Interconnect.Give them a try and let me know what you think.Regards | |
| Upgrading - what amp to choose Ghosthouse - I've just completed my final incarnation of my DIY cables... "The Mark V" DIY InterconnectIt turned out to be something really quite special and using it as a SPDIF from the V-link to the DAC resulted in the best SQ I've ever achieved... | |
| REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC B_limo - I'm in Canada and subject to conversion rate and maybe even duty.I priced the multibit and took into account the time taken the ship the unit there and back, plus the price of the upgrade and shipping cost to and fro and possibly duty. It... | |
| A month of tweaks Electroslacker - You are on a slippery slope :-)I started with the Stagers, but I thought they could be better.- I upgraded the RCA's to Eichmann Silver Bullets - more details and better bass control- I then upgraded the Silver Bullets to KLE Inno... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin Geoffkait - it was during a burn-in I noticed this effect and I had music playing through the cables, but the amp was turns down.Yping - I too heard of the saturation issue, but wondered if "overcooking" was the real issue - perhaps notDefinaitely... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin Lak - an observation derived from the link you provided...Over-Cooking can reduce the performance, at least temporarily. The characteristics of this are a reduced or diminished soundstage and a dull, lifeless quality to the music. If this situatio... |