audphile1
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| Concentration @rvpiano lets say you’re in a Carnegie Hall or in a Lincoln Center. You’re listening to your favorite symphony. What do you concentrate on? How do you perceive and comprehend music? What do you listen to - sounds, music, performance or all of it a... | |
| Pulled the trigger on a Moon 861! Hope it pairs well on my Focals Looking at your setup, you have at least two problem areas. In order of criticality 1. You are using your cell phone to stream to your dac via Bluetooth. This type of interface is completely out of place in your system. 2. Your dac is not on t... | |
| thinking of buying used Dynaudio contour 5.4to replace totem Forest with 2 Rel 9x ‘s. I owned S5.4 and didn’t like them. Clinical sounding, need a big amp and they come alive at high volumes. I would get Totem Wind instead. Much more musical and articulate. In addition I also had to replace both tweeters at different times. They we... | |
| Concentration @rvpiano Depends on what you’re listening to. It’s most likely easier to concentrate on music when listening to classical, especially symphony. If you’re listening to acoustic jazz it’s easy to involuntarily shift attention to evaluating tone an... | |
| Radiating EMI – Continued You deployed some serious countermeasures. my eero node emits a ton of EMU. I just got a 1.5m Ethernet cable and keep my eero node plugged into another circuit and at Ethernet cable length away from the DAC. There are no other components in the... | |
| Meitner MA3i DAC Review @mitch2 I replaced Bricasti M3 and Aurender N200 with MA3i. I bought the Meitner while I still had the other two pieces so that I can compare. I don’t know what Helene DAC sounds like I am sure it is fabulous. I can tell you that the MA3i is very... | |
| And a Happy 4th to all! Happy Independence Day to you all! | |
| Reciever for Martin Logan Source speakers-Two channel I would take advantage of WiiM’s HDMI ARC input. Run HDMI from your TV into WiiM. That’s the only connection you need. Your TV has ARC HDMI correct? You would then use YouTube app on your smart tv, or firestick, or appleTV to watch YouTube and th... | |
| Reciever for Martin Logan Source speakers-Two channel 👍 | |
| Experience with SoulNote Dac2? No one is judging a dac for it’s chip alone. It is a contributing factor though. The advice given here is to audition it. Buying it to try and selling it if you don’t like it ism’t the most logical approach unless you’re buying used at a great pri... | |
| Reciever for Martin Logan Source speakers-Two channel @rickguild WiiM amp ultra is 100w/ch into 8 and 200w/ch into 4 ohm. it has hdmi arc and toslink inputs. You should be ok. And with amazon return policy what’s the risk of trying it? | |
| Chair I finally made it to the store and checked out few Stressless models. One I liked the most was the Opal. I was in a rush and was only able to sit in it for few minutes and it felt really comfortable. Need spend a bit more time there. So far it’s d... | |
| Experience with SoulNote Dac2? Thank you @bluethinker for the kind words. Looking forward to your thoughts on the Soulnote DAC. | |
| Pulled the trigger on a Moon 861! Hope it pairs well on my Focals @dman777 yes. Bluetooth is a noisy and low resolution method of sending music to your DAC. You’ve invested significantly in your components. Get a proper streamer and connect it to the DAC using a good USB cable. Don’t use Bluetooth man. It sucks. | |
| Experience with SoulNote Dac2? Have you heard a dac with ESS chips? I owned benchmark and thought it was a bit too clinical sounding. I never heard the Soulnote though but I would highly recommend auditioning it in your system or have ability to return it if you don’t like it. |