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| Beethoven Complete Works boxed set recommendations Sorry, I answered as though you asked for Symphony cycles. I agree with @goofyfoot that you might be better off with selections that don't all come in the same box. Though big boxes may be cheap per disk. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC These sale prices from Shenzhen usually last a week or two. There seems never to have been a problem with Shenzhen’s safe delivery of a perfectly functioning new unit. Check posts here at about the time of the 2021 Black Thursday sale. However, th... | |
| Beethoven Complete Works boxed set recommendations The two sets I have enjoyed the most recently are Zinman with the Zurich Tonhalle orchestra and the new one by Savall with his hand-picked orchestra. Terrific sound on both of these. A classic though is the 1963 Karajan-Berlin set. Another that... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @theatro Glad that you have the DAC connected. Sometimes Windows is a nuisance. Please write of your impressions once you have it up and running for a while. | |
| DAC Merry Go 'Round- why I stopped at Weiss No one has yet mentioned that the Weiss 501 uses a pair of Sabre ESS 9018K2M chips, a ten year old design. Each of the chips uses two channels in a monaural configuration for a single output channel. Sabre chips probably have more R & D behind... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @charles1dad In the case of a DAC that one hasn’t heard, IMO there’s still more to go on than one’s gut. A DAC, like any other component, can’t give more than it has. So, with a bit of experience, one needs to look inside, a proposition that has ... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @lordmelton Nice post. About a month ago when some of us early users were being criticized as "salesmen" my response was that most of the favorable comments these days were coming from those who had purchased recently and were sharing. So thanks... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @rc22 Thanks for the kind words. You raise a very good point about the interaction of low level information, dynamic range, and ambient noise. The equipment gets better and better. The recordings get better and better. The Dynamic Range of th... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I realize that, though I’m the OP here, apart from descriptions of its insides and very few well chosen words in the initial post, I haven’t offered a review of the Musetec DAC. I guess I should, but as so much has already been written about the M... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @mresseguie As you know there are not all that many Musetecs out there, so the probability of comparisons especially to other DACs that also are not in very wide use is pretty remote. A review of this thread, @dbb’s comparison thread, and the Mus... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @ja_kub_sz Your DAC adventure continues and we will all be grateful for the information and comparison you will give us. Don't hesitate to tell us that you like the Tambaqui better, if you do. No one ever said that the Musetec is the best of al... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC I also have my grave doubs about the value of the "Enjoy the Music" article referred to. He takes better than 2000 words to say: Buy what sounds good to you. Very low idea to word ratio IMO. Some people get paid, and probably not very much, j... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @ja_kub_sz In this crazy world of audio, preferences might very well not be transitive. So it is possible that a person might prefer the May over the Musetec, and the Tambaqui over the May, but yet the Musetec over the Tambaqui. The rules of logi... | |
| Just a thought here but,,,,,,xlr adapters? Adding XLR adapters will make matters worse. The audio signal will just have to travel through another device. The beneficial feature of XLR connectors is that they are used on balanced cables, which you don't have, and can't have, in your syste... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Persons researching the Musetec and wanting to read everything, and especially Europeans, may wish to know that there is a new thread about the DAC on a German Audio site: Aktives Hören Google the site. In Google click on "Bausteine für aktiv... |