mdalton
Responses from mdalton
| DDC or Better Streamer? oops, did a bit more research. any reason you wouldn’t just go with Laiv Harmony uDDC? | |
| DDC or Better Streamer? here’s a recent, relatively robust discussion re streamers. streamer discussion Re DDC, I have no experience myself, but would simply note that It makes sense to me that Denafrips would make a separate Hermes in part because their DACs are NOS,... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @devinplombier ok, but if you’re playing WFB Jr. I get to play Christopher Hitchens. Deal? | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @devinplombier ? I’ve always referred to it as bile on the soul. Some people just have it. We can talk about them over scotch. | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @devinplombier yes, the proviso is always “absent up/oversampling, dsp, etc.” | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers To the OP: As you can see, there’s an ongoing debate among a number of us who’ve responded to your question that sometimes gets in the way of clarity. So I’ll speak directly to you in order to clarify my position, rather than have it cartoonish... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @steakster You’re joking, right? I responded to the following assertion: “Anyone who’s compared a $400 streamer to a $2k+ streamer will tell you there’s a very significant difference between the two.” Congrats on your google skills, but I do... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @steakster thats a non sequiter. Unless by “measurement crowd” you mean the ability to count and listen to the number of people with whom one agrees or disagrees. | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @soix actually, just on that one thread I sent the link on, there were at least 15 members who expressed some variation on the view that their are minimal differences with streamers above a certain threshold, or that they were not able to discer... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @sns DACs can filter noise in the following ways: 1) jitter - if they reclock signal, they do so to eliminate jitter 2) power supply - DACs typically have filters at the power supply. Extent depends on design. 3) analog output - most DACs ha... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @devinplombier Well thank you sir, very kind of you! You are hereby invited to hang with me anytime. We’ll drink scotch, talk politics - respectfully - and listen to great music on whichever system strikes your fancy. | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @johnsmith55 The logical fallacies abound from our friends. “Anyone who’s compared a $400 streamer to a $2k+ streamer…” This is called the “appeal to authority” fallacy, and it’s not even a good authority. Note in my first post where I linked... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @ricred1 Nope, not directing anything at you. But it doesn’t seem like you’re getting my point. So let me “flip the tree” as they say in statistics. If I told people that my Koetsu is a better cartridge than their cheaper cartridge, and that ... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers With respect to my streamer bona fides, I was an early mover to streaming 20+ years ago, well before I got back into vinyl (which was probably about 15 years ago now). And with respect to listening to streamers, I’ve had 10(ish) different models ... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers So here’s why, IMHO, it’s “dumb” to pay $29k for the Antipodes: Like other high-cost server/streamers, Antipodes talks about its superior isolation and noise reduction. The reason for this is because there is no other credible claim they can mak... |