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| Digital Room Correction: Where in the chain? @mattsca I agree that doing the DSP BEFORE the DAC is ideal. The MEN unit likely allows your vinyl to also be used with DSP. Since you are a ROON user you should talk to Mitch Barnett at Digital Room Calibration Services, Convolver, Headphone Fi... | |
| Streamers rabbit hole The Nagra streamer is likely a repackaged Playback Designs streamer. The Nagra is likely $5k and the PBD is maybe $3k. I owned the older PDB STREAM-IF and it was an excellent streamer. I sold it to someone who owned the $25k PBD Dream DAC. Do some... | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ Just bought 2 50-foot XLR cables from Benchmark. Had to take a huge loan. | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ The US Justice Dept. should investigate Ansuz Cable Co. for wire fraud. :-) Nice. This is one audio company I do not ever consider, whatever the make. They seem to be taking it to the extreme now. | |
| God, I hate to ask this… @williamjohnston Sorry to hear of your medical issues. A good friend of mine is also dealing with Stage 4 issues. I read the following article in the WSJ last week about Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and sent it to him. Maybe there is something there t... | |
| Speaker recommendations welcomed Electronics: Really considering Michi P5 S2 and S5 amplifier for electronics, some sort of streamer as yet to be determined. I also like Coda and Pass Labs. @hk_fan The CODA is my preference over the Mich P5 and any PASS (a bit too warm for me)... | |
| Giga Stack vs Integrated amp ($8k-ish) @v-fi The people comparing the Gugnir (latest) to the Yggi+ are saying that the sound is in between the Yggi+ LIM and the MIB, sounding more towards the MIB. There are also supposed to me new features in that Gugnir that the Yggi+ does not have. ... | |
| Giga Stack vs Integrated amp ($8k-ish) Jason Stoddard, the designer of both amps, said on Head-fi that the Tyr are a more relaxed sound. While the Wotan has more bite to it. I think he said the bass was stronger on the Wotan. A new version of the Tyr is coming out soon, so that is why... | |
| Giga Stack vs Integrated amp ($8k-ish) I will eventually replace the Kara F preamp with a second Benchmark HPA4 preamp. I tried it on the setup, and it improves the sound a lot, but the $800 Kara F preamp is good enough for a few more years (a bit of faint praise). I also tried the Sc... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? No, except speaker cables (Audience FrontRow on both systems). I found some gear are immune to RCA and XLR magic. On my headphone gear the cables made a massive difference. However, there was actual math behind the headphone cables from RAAL-R... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? RUSH in Toronto around 1983, Great show. BTW - for you folks that mentioned Led Zeppelin, check out the BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN on Netflix. Zep is my fav band but after seeing that documentary they moved up to another level. | |
| Validation I love my Livingroom system and consider it my end game done system. However, I had a friend who is a musician and audio hardware vendor come over to listen. His hearing ability was written up on 6moons.com and I had also noticed the same genius ... | |
| DAC suggestions? Wait until August for the new Schitt Byggi. It is supposed to be their best ever DAC, and I owned the LIM, MIB, and the latest OG. Still have the MIB and OG. I am going to convert the MIB to the Byggi. These guys sell direct to consumer so a big... | |
| Full Audiophile system for sale in Chicago TMRAudio.com Audiogon.com USAudiomart.com | |
| Does Chat GPT just give you the answer you are hoping for? Just need to watch out for AI Hallucinations (a real thing). |