8th-note
Responses from 8th-note
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? Indignation about expensive luxury products that we can't afford is completely relative. You have contempt for someone who would pay $300,000 for a turntable. Imagine how a subsistance farmer in many parts of the third world would feel about the a... | |
| Cd player I have a Teac 701 and a Jay's Audio CD3 Mk III. They both sound great. I'm not sure I could tell them apart in a blind test but they are both excellent pieces of gear. The Jay's is built like a tank and it uses the latest drive mechaism that Phil... | |
| Digital with same soundstage as analog I can share my experience which is quite different than yours. I happen to have the same cartridge (Hana SL) on a Denon DP 47f turntable. For digital I'm running a Jay's Audio CD3 Mk III transport with a Berkeley Alpha Reference Series 2 MQA DAC a... | |
| A.I. music @falconquest I stand by my opinion that there has never been anything truly original in music composition. Going back to the great classical composers, they often used folk melodies in their compositions and they built upon religious music that wa... | |
| A.I. music I just finished a very interesting book on A.I. by Mustafa Suleyman titled "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilema. I highly recommend it if you are interested in this subject. I guarantee that it will sharpen y... | |
| Not enough outlets Just a note about hospital grade outlets. At AXPONA several years ago I met Caelin Gabriel from Shunyata and we had an interesting discussion about various power issues. The subject of outlets came up and he told me that it is not a good idea to u... | |
| You tube hifi influencers. Love them or hate them? I have found YouTube videos quite valuable when I am considering buying a new piece of gear. One of these days I'm going to buy a dedicated streamer (I currently use a laptop) and I've watched videos on several different models. A video is an exce... | |
| Better cd SQ I've owned quite a few DACS and CD players over the years and I now have a state of the art setup (Jay's CD3 Mk III, Berkeley Alpha Reference Series II MQA DAC). My system sounds better than it ever has but the addition of a single digital compone... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? I have one more theory. Amps differ in their ability to provide current into low impedance and phase shifted loads. The type of amp (class A for example) doesn't tell you how well it provides current. If the speakers in question have an impedance ... | |
| It's your streamer, not your modem I'm doing eveything wrong. I stream through my Asus ROG laptop computer which is connected to my network through wifi. I hook up the laptop to my Berkeley Alpha USB/Alpha Reference DAC Series 2 MQA, via cheap USB cable. When I play a Qobuz file a... | |
| Audioholics I've watched a bunch of Audioholics' videos and I met Gene at the 2018 AXPONA. At that same show I also went to a Synergistics demonstration and saw Mr. Denney in action. Here's my take..... I think that Audioholics is about as reputable as any o... | |
| Let the best be your guide @rvpiano It looks like our brains are wired the same way. I do exactly as you describe. Many of my favorite recordings are from decades ago when the technology was quite primitive or later recordings done by independent artists who had a low budg... | |
| Intermittent audio dropouts when streaming Qobuz Hi Res files on Lumin streamer FWIW I have similar experience with 192/24 files on Qobuz streaming through my PC. I have 100 meg fiber and I'm hardwired to my router. I have tried a different cable with no effect. It only happens on 192 files and I have assumed that it is on Qo... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be I'm a geezer and have made many digital upgrades over the years. In my experience you are not going to achieve a "Wow" improvement by upgrading your digital gear or even your preamp. Expectation bias has been mentioned and I appreciate your though... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @erik_squires What makes you think that Qobuz is meddling around with lossy compression? Do you have any evidence of this? Qobuz is very clear that they are using FLAC to compress the data stream. Why would they do anything more than use FLAC? T... |