djones51
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| Streamer opinion.. Pease comment on validity. I agree with one part that if a DAC can’t clean up noise and jitter it’s poorly engineered especially those built within the last few years. I don't have extensive knowledge on tons of CD players but those I have heard recently running through the... | |
| Truly High Efficiency, High Quality, Nearfield Usable, Affordable Speakers, Do They Exist? Have you looked at Omega Super 3i or Decaware speakers? | |
| Basic Tidal streamer to USB DAC The OP is trying to eliminate the PC in the chain. I don't use a PC either. Small black box about 6 inches square hooked to my dac contral with tablet, done. | |
| New Place - What Would You Do? You're not the guy I was reading about the other day where the ex wife took a bunch of LP's and embedded them in her new kitchen floor? Might want to count them. | |
| Power Conditioner I've seen some Tice power and Richard Gray on Ebay. | |
| Higher End DACs Cal3713 thanks for the info I have been wondering about the Matrix ElementX as it is a one piece streamer/ dac. I use a benchmark dac3 now which some consider very neutral and not very engaging, they both use ESS chips, which is what I look for ... | |
| Higher End DACs If you go with the Esoteric streamer/dac the top of their line is the N-01XD. The older version is the N-01 they are built around different DAC's. The N01 uses an AKM 4497 chip which is a few years old AKM 's newest chip is the 4499. The N01XD use... | |
| Higher End DACs If you don't have CDs I would go with streaming. It would take a lifetime to accumulate the music you can access. | |
| Higher End DACs In the first place you don’t need a computer to get excellent sound from digital. At least not the type of computer we’re talking about here a lot of things like phones and tablets , streamers are ’computers ’. True if you want to use room you’ll ... | |
| Higher End DACs I know roon needs a lot to run but I don't think it needs 40 threads and 48 gigs of ecc. I transitioned from vinyl 20 years ago. Once again the OP is looking for a DAC and streamer not a 100lb block over built to the point of absurdity to do th... | |
| Opportunity to Purchase Sony DAS-703-ES DAC If you like vintage equipment it's probably a good deal but a $99 Schiit Modi 3 help your streaming sound better. | |
| Higher End DACs The OP was asking about DAC's and streamers not an over built boat anchor computer running some modified windows OS. Anyone who thinks tossing a server computer in their audio rack is about 5 years behind stick the thing in another room. The only ... | |
| Disappointing On Mcintosh......help Some say the Paradigm Persona speaker is bright and hard to listen to, I heard the 3F paired with a McIntosh and it sounded anything but bright very detailed smooth sound I loved it but I am sure others would hate it that's what makes the audio w... | |
| Higher End DACs Servers do heavy lifting in heavy lifting environments, streaming music files is not one of them unless you're Tidal or Qobuz. You’re better off keeping the server side completely away from the audio components connecting to a good streamer DAC l... | |
| Higher End DACs The SGM Extreme doesn't even have a DAC for $20K and no DAC I don't know. I read the thread posted on it and from what I gather he built the thing as overkill. The reasoning is this computer which could run a midsize company basically runs i... |