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| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? crawfishdaddi I've been down this road a bit and my answer is a little nuanced ... once you have a cable that is: 1. Well constructed 2. Well shielded and 3. Well terminated, you will get little to no improvement in sound quality by "upgrading" ... | |
| Audiophile Equipment Repair? It would be helpful if you told us where you're located and perhaps which DAC you have. | |
| Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"? bobdg2000 When I ask for answers about how they determined this to be the problem, I just get a standard, "We don’t support or troubleshoot Win 7 anymore." I never got any technical answers on my issue. I don’t really think you can fault Tidal... | |
| Sound quality of HD Radio vs CD vs Streamers?? pwerahera ... the very best FM tuners can do only so much to reproduce FM signal which is subjected to noise, hizzing and signal strength whereas HD doesn’t suffer from any of these ... Actually, so-called HD radio is very much influenced... | |
| Subwoofer connection bbarten Tape out. Done! Oh, no, you don’t want to connect a sub to a preamp’s tape output. That would feed a fixed level signal to the sub. In the OP's case, Y-cables connected to the preamp out (which is after the volume control) is the w... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT kairosman Listening to TV either YouTube or Netflix movies using the P1’s internal DAC over HDMI ARC sounds fantastic even though it’s just 2 channel stereo ... Both YT and Netflix use lossy compressed audio - comparable to mp3 files. Many... | |
| Sound quality of HD Radio vs CD vs Streamers?? mahler123 Is HD Radio synonymous with Internet Radio? I had never heard the term prior to reading this thread. No. HD Radio is a scheme by iBiquity/DTS to broadcast digital audio using existing AM and FM channels. Note that DTS acknowle... | |
| Sound quality of HD Radio vs CD vs Streamers?? HD radio uses lossy compression, much like mp3 files. So while it can give you the quiet signal that’s typical of digital, you give up a lot of resolution in exchange for it. I don't take it seriously. | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT nubiann I2S is designed to preserve and separate the Signals so avoiding the timing issues connected with multiplexing. There's nothing magic about I2S, it's simply another interface du jour. And I'm not convinced that there's any truth to the... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS calvinj ... am I the only one that has had it with overly pushy audiophiles that push measurements as the end all be all ... obnoxious ones that talk down to you because of the measurements of your system or equipment is not perfect for them?... | |
| Audiohifistore.com is a SCAM grislybutter I was scammed by them a year ago. What happened? Did you lose any money, @grislybutter? | |
| Favorite scream in rock? James Brown. | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? billstevenson ... how can a digital master, for example make for a better sounding record? ... If it's a truly hi-res digital master and great care is made in making LPs from it, it's possible for the LP to have a much higher extended frequenc... | |
| Which company manufactures this Ethernet switch for the other? richardbrand The Internet can indeed be used to deliver bit-perfect transmission using the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) stack ... However, streaming cannot afford the time to request retransmission of faulty packets... | |
| Which company manufactures this Ethernet switch for the other? richardbrand Ethernet can be made 100% reliable by detecting and retransmitting faulty or lost packets, but this is not what streaming does! Any of the quality-oriented audio streaming services (Qobuz, Tidal) use TCP/IP. If you’re running ... |