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| Is it worth it? DAC question Ignoring the broken record poster above. The only way to answer the question is for you to answer it yourself by trying it. Finding someone who has your exact equipment is likely relatively low. There are online threads about setup with an extern... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @ghdprentice +1 @lalitk +1 @sudnh +1 | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @duckworp - Thanks for the streamer breakdown, now again what were the DACs? | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @lalitk +2 , the impact is obvious | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing @wharfy - Sorry that you didn't get a thumbs up from them, but glad that you at least got their honest responses. | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing @charles1dad - I shouldn’t have interjected "I wouldn’t" into the comment as what I would do under the same circumstance that he encountered doesn’t matter. The rest I still recommend considering before shelling funds out. Project’s responses seem... | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing "So, if the issues are corrected, how would one find out, without purchasing and hoping you got a good one? " If it were me before I took another chance ( I wouldn't) I'd call the dealer I bought it from and ask what their present take on the qua... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? @duckworp - Simply for curiosity sake - what were the $1500 and $25000 DAC's you used? | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Lemek - Emergence Incognito - Into You Andy Snitzer - A Beautiful Dream | |
| Advice or Experience with Tube Amps: 485's or KT170's? @gregjacob - I’ll mention this only in the event that you are not aware of this regarding the Mastersound 845 "Tube bias is factory-set and mustn’t be altered, Ferro stressed, except when changing tubes. "Biasing ... is usually unnecessary for the... | |
| Significant steps? (DAC) You have spoken . Volkswagen better fire all of its Porsche & Lamborghini engineers. | |
| Significant steps? (DAC) @tvrgeek "Sorry if you have one, but $140K for a DAC is not perfection, it is pure bragging rights.". I don't have one , don't seek out listening to one because it isn't in my realm of spending on one piece of audio equipment, don't presumptuou... | |
| Significant steps? (DAC) "Would I actually hear a difference between a Pontus and Biftost? Three times the price, is it twice as good? Only slight? A Qutest over my JDS? 16 times the price? How much better? How much more would I enjoy a few hundred more CDs over the elect... | |
| Rumors of CD Demise Exagerated? New Hegel There are several high end companies that make CD players and/or CD transports - here's a few Vitus, Metronome, Neodio, Accustic Arts, Aqua, Ayon. There's more. | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing I have no dog in this fight but I am curious if either of you have "bent CDs"? I can't say that I have a one. And, I wonder how they would come to a conclusion that owners had noise problems because of "bent CDs". |