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| Audience FrontRow USB - I’m puzzled Amazing that it retains its good sound quality when it's defective. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio I think that all fits within my current understanding. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio I appreciate your engagement with me in this discussion. I’m not a software engineer either, and what little programming I ever did used audio APIs that were a black box that I just plugged in without understanding all the details... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio One digital copy may exactly resemble another, but you still have to get that digital file from one place to another and then convert it to a convincing analog audio presentation. The server just has to get the correct series o... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @mdalton Sounds very plausible to me. I've read other accounts of EMI creating audible sound effects in susceptible DACs. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio I mean, "grooves are grooves," right? Is one person’s system "broken" because it sounds different from another person’s system? It’s a very different situation because the groove on a record hasn’t been transferred to an abstra... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? I'm using HDMI out of my computer into a receiver. I'm not sure what brand it is. Some very basic HDMI cable that costs about 12 bucks and can handle 8 channels of audio at 24/96 along with a 4k HDR video signal. So I'm definitely not saying my sy... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? What timing smear? Is it correcting something that happened in the recording studio? Phase issues with the mic. and other processing done during the recording? That’s where the low hanging fruit would be. Orders of magnitude more time smear than a... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @dogearedaudio MPD, Minimserver, BubbleUPnP, Squeezelite, etc. All of these offer somewhat different sonic presentations. @audioman58 tip if you want your digital to sound better still Tubulus Audio cables ,they beat cables much more $$ an... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? @mdalton but if it’s a decent streamer, your DAC dominates what you hear. I'm generally in agreement with you here, at least in terms of what I'm capable of caring about, unless the streamer is glitching. All software can be glitchy. I know I... | |
| How does sound influence your appreciation? It could be that a bad sounding system leaves only the musicianship to be appreciated, so it differentiates more than a good sounding system, which also reveals the pleasing sound qualities of the instruments, voices, and the concert hall. Bad sou... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? I used to be a big doubter that there could possibly be any difference that you are actually hearing rather than just perceiving due to expectations, subconscious or otherwise. I now am convinced due to first hand experience that things can get we... | |
| How does sound influence your appreciation? That’s interesting. I can’t say that sound quality has had much to do with my preference for the way music is played by the musicians. The closest match to that I can think of is that it seems my ear is more forgiving of musicianship when I’m hear... | |
| Interaural Crosstalk And Loudspeaker Setup The one single thing that bothers me most about interaural crosstalk is the cancellation dip that occurs at the ears for the phantom center. For a typical 60 degree triangle this first dip occurs around 2 kHz, which is about as bad a place for a d... | |
| Is it analog or is it digital? @dynamiclinearity It's unfortunate that class D amps are called class D since in audio D often stands for digital and the description of how a class D amp works(square waves) sort of sounds digital. Plus class D involves encoding albeit an anal... |