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Lo-Fi, Mid-Fi or Hi-Fi- What's your system and why?

I've got a Mid-Fi system. Parasound A21 and P3, Vandersteen 2 CE Sig II speakers, Rega Apollo CD player for transport and Schiit Bifrost Uber for a DAC. Sounds very musical to me, but I could go much farther for sound quality
Rate is your rig- Lo-Fi, Mid-Fi or Hi-Fi. Why do you rate it that way?
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kijanki
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Hi-Fiish sounding means to me artificial sounding.  Natural sounding is High End.  One can find plenty of Hi-Fi gear in Best Buy. Atrocious sounding SS amps, sold in 70s, were also called Hi-Fi since they met German DIN 45500 standard. 

I cannot call my system High-End when the most expensive part of it - "The Room"  is "Mid-Fi".
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mitch4t
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zmanastronomy
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willywonka, I've tried most of what you are talking about, even had the multi-bit in my system. It's a good $300-$600 dac (however you have it configured) but the NuWave DSD DAC is so much better there is no comparison. I new I could never achieve the liveliness, energy and dynamics that I new could be achieved by staying with the Bifrost system.

 It's a good dac to get started in computer audio, but for me it's not the end all.


williewonka
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Zman, I’m ot surprised at your findings, considering the Nuwave is over twice the price of the bifrost.

But it would be interesting to compare them in my system😆

Looks like the Gungnir multibit is probaby a better choice as a competing product

Having said that, I am a big fan of PS Audio gear. Great power supplies.
jesusa0
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Lo-Fi, definitely.
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