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| Recommendations for 3rd party power supply for Chord 2qute? You probably cannot do better than a 12V SBooster. That being said there are many less expensive 12V LPS units available through eBay and elsewhere. A search on the forums will get you a list of those that have been used with success. As for "c... | |
| "Use your mentality" is the worst lyric ever. " I'm wild again, beguiled againA simpering, whimpering child again" | |
| Are you troubled by the imaging of a symphony orchestra? Harry Pearson once wrote that correct imaging is more important on recordings than in person, as with recordings you have no visual clues.That being said, IMO there is no reason not to have pretty perfect left to right imaging of instruments. I th... | |
| Question about SACD and DSD When you're using DLNA, you're not playing from or through the computer. The files are sent from the server (like a NAS or hard disk) to the DNLA bridge and out to the DAC. The computer is merely the digital media controller. | |
| Question about SACD and DSD formatting limitations? | |
| Question about SACD and DSD Sorry here, a typo: DLNA = Digital Living Network Alliance It is a device used so that your music files can bypass your computer while still using the computer to control the flow of music, as with JRiver. Bypassing the computer is good since it ... | |
| Question about SACD and DSD If you can manage ripping the SACD into .dsf files you can easily play them from a computer into your separate DAC. If the DAC has a USB input that would be the easiest. Otherwise you ca get a USB to spdif converter. Bypassing the Denon and g... | |
| Upgrade in streamer changed my mind on the Tidal vs Qobuz option First, Qobuz offers some higher than red-book resolution files.Beyond that, my own measurements, using MusicScope, suggest that the HIFI files of Tidal, which are advertised to be red-book quality, fall below that standard. They are far below usi... | |
| Victory at Sea - original LPs Vs Remastered LP or CD I just listened to some of it in remastered stereo on Tidal. It sounded rather good. This is definitely NOT elevator music,* but film score by the composer Richard Rodgers. Like many film scores, whether it can be listened to in isolation, or must... | |
| USB cable There are people who lift the ground after handshaking takes place. Others install a small resistor in the ground line. | |
| USB cable Solid core cables are best for USB. All Audioquest cables ae solid core, for ex. Silver helps too. A Hong Kong ebay advertiser of solid core silver USB cables made one up for me that is a great performer. I had been experimenting with USB cabl... | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic @ei001h,To tell exactly what you have, you have to run some of the track through a diagnostic program. I use MusicScope, unfortunately no longer available. I do not know of a similar program.Primephonic does not tell you what the sample frequenc... | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic I have so far tried Tidal and Primephonic for classical music. To see exactly what they are delivering I have run file segments through MusicScope, a program that tells you exactly what you have. Keep in mind that when your DAC registers a number ... | |
| Supra High-Speed USB 2.0 A-B Generally I like Supra cables. But IMO their loudspeaker and power cables are their sweet spot.I used Supra USB cable for quite a while. Following suggestions of others I found it was outperformed by inexpensive cables from Monoprice and Audioqu... | |
| Tariff for used item from Canada to US I am at a loss to understand this. I am in the US. For many years I have been buying electronic (and other) merchandise from foreign countries. Among these 2 cartridges, a DAC, connectors. They have come mostly from Asia, but also from Canada a... |