wrenth
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| Grimm findings on streaming audio Yes, the degradation is audible. The more decent equipment you have the easier to catch it. In case of 44kHz 16bit very. MQA has near CD quality but not the same. I hear it as roughness mostly without the clear echos and thinner soundstage. It bec... | |
| Is Class D Analog or Digital ? :) it remains me the situation I asked my friends what is the patefon and in the answer I got everything except the true. It is not the problem when the end user make the mistake. We can correct him and gain +1 to reputation. However when the sale... | |
| Funny thing happened after my neighbor moved. Wow, if you noticed that, he had to use some really crap electric device and if you are lucky he taken it with him. If not... the noise generator is still there.In second case you have one solution only: take a look at what PSAudio offer. Such aud... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! I hope it will find its happy owners. The equipment like that has no acoustic value in a sense of output audio quality for money, however if treated as industry art objects can be seen as attractive. Looks good, I can imagine sounds great, but cos... | |
| McIntosh MC611and MC1.25KW-how do they sound compared to 601's and 1.2KW I have them from 4 months. I had doubts during listening and then I paired them with C1100. That was the key to heaven. Those two was meant to work together. Both are state of the art, class in its own. I wish I did not tried 611 in this combo but... | |
| Balanced vs RCA between amp/preamp This is simple. If both devices was designed for full balanced support then it is clear that XLR is preferable solution. If one of the device is single ended then RCA is perfectly normal.I tested many cables and devices. This rule is in general pr... | |
| Chord Dave Replacement The best upgrade for Dave... easy. Tellurium Silver Diamond USB and Chord Blu. It will kick your ass. I was upgrading it in this order and still could not believe every time it sounded better. I still did not found better audio source. It is worth... | |
| Anyone hear Vivid Audio Speakers? Considering Vivid Giya G1 Series 2 from Magico S5 MKII I have G2 in my room. I heard in the dealer show room... and take it. Truly it is hard to find bad things in those speakers. Perhaps the visual appearance that is very personal (for me the shark like profile... love it!!!). But it was not the look... | |
| Is there a difference in sound quality when streaming TIDAL Vs CD player Hello, in short words "yes it is". I am playing with Auralic -> Chord Blu 2xBNC (~720kHz) -> Chord Dave -> MC2600 (NOS tubes, old and great Telefunken and Siemens) -> MC302 all with Tellurium Q Silver Diamond) application between. The ... | |
| Focal Utopia Scala Evo Just finished with 3 days test session with Focal Scala Evo. Astonishing tweeters. Correct and neutral mid-range (not magical, but detail and spatial). Rock solid bass. 30m2 at least. I was able to temper them in my room 20m2 but it was evident th... |