audphile1
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| Asymmetric Room @signaforce covering the TV will most likely not solve the issue. I would try: 1. Toe in more towards listening position - this will minimize reflection on the right from the window 2. engage the warm filter on the Qutest DAC. I remember this ... | |
| Streamer vs. Cart upgrade (here we go again…) WiiM is only OK. I would look jnto something better. What’s your total budget for this? | |
| Anyone tried the emm MA3i? @charles007100 I’m not big on tweaks - after trying footers, network filters, tube damping rings, etc. I find these to be bandaids. Component quality can’t be substituted or improved by these in-between gadgets. Get the best possible DAC you can ... | |
| Streamer vs. Cart upgrade (here we go again…) @ghdprentice that’s why my analog setup is gone. I doubt I’ll ever play a record again. Need to sell my vinyl collection. It’s a PIA from every angle you look at it. Streaming, when set up properly with good components, beats CD and vinyl. | |
| Streamer vs. Cart upgrade (here we go again…) My take…. I had Hana EL and upgraded to ML. Incredible cartridge and it sounds great. But records are indeed expensive. If you want to have a virtually limitless music library at your disposal and buy a record or two occasionally, spend the money ... | |
| Giant ads on threads Bumping this up as the problem still persists. Audiogon team I still get those giant Prime ads. It’s very annoying please look into it. | |
| Wireworld Series 10 I have Starlight 10 Twinax ethernet cable and it’s very impressive both in build quality and the sonic improvements it brought to my system. Haven’t tried any other WW cables recently. | |
| What would you do? Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke. Get a nice cartridge and enjoy it. | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s also watermarking, remastering into high resolution, compression. It then gets to our streamers where proprietary DSP takes place ingesting and processing the incoming stream. Some would endless... | |
| Denafrips Pontus 15th, Pass Labs INT-60, and Wilson Sabrinas That is a little tight but it could work. You never know. FWIW I found mine to produce better bass in both quantity and quality when further away from front wall. But if space is limited you gotta work with what you have. | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. PS Audio and EMM Labs/Meitner upsample all incoming signal to DSD. Latest EMM and Meitner DACs upsample to 16xDSD internally in real time. That’s DSD1024. PS Audio DSD MkII upsamples to 20xDSF. I believe Playback Design upsamples to 4xDSD. | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. I see you’ve been doing some research now :) Can’t recall hearing any difference between DOP and native DSD with Bricasti M3 when I had it. In any case my Meitner DAC upconverts everything to DSD. Interestingly enough it doesn’t support native ... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @retiredaudioguy to your point my Meitner MA3i DAC has a pretty high quality built in network card. I’m using it as a Roon endpoint so the only connection into the Meitner is Ethernet cable. This DAC replaced Aurender N200 and Bricasti M3 combo wh... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. I believe Aurender will output DSD via SPDIF as DOP. Some other streamers might as well. Native DSD probably only via USB I believe there are SACD transports that can output DOP via coax. Zenith is one. https://www.musicdirect.com/disc-player/o... | |
| Anyone tried the emm MA3i? Never heard MSB Premier or PBD. I’m sure these are very nice DACs. I have MA3i and like it a lot. It replaced two components - Aurender N200 streamer and Bricasti M3 DAC. |