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| Has Anyone Auditioned an LKS MH-DA004 DAC? "what other dacs do you have experience with? Please share your comparisons based on your experience. Thanks."Almost none. I am mostly into analog.* The only other DAC I have owned is a Lavry DAC a while back. If you want comparisons write to... | |
| Has Anyone Auditioned an LKS MH-DA004 DAC? There’s no way you can judge a DAC of this quality through a youtube video. Good luck finding comparisons.No, my Oppo is factory. But if you’re interested in what Ric has to say about this DAC you can do a search on the Digital Asylum. | |
| Has Anyone Auditioned an LKS MH-DA004 DAC? I finally ordered a unit myself, and am very happy I did. The consensus over at Head-Fi where they are ordinarily into mods (even on earlier LKS models), is that this unit doesn’t need any, though I’m certian Ric will want to touch it up here or t... | |
| VPI Analogue Drive System I used an SDS for many years. A bullet-proof device. As for noise from it; there wasn't any at all. I replaced it with an Eagle/Roadrunner, Performance, as far as I can tell, is identical--but for issues that RR addresses. Odd to hear about a... | |
| MQA according to new Stereophile "loudness button" and "tweaking EQ in presence region" And some heavy hitters are not (yet?) offering MQA: Ayre Acoustics, Benchmark Media Systems, Boulder Amplifiers, Bryston, Chord Electronics, dCS, EMM Labs, Hegel Music Systems, Marantz, Meitner, PS Audio, Schiit Audio, Simaudio, and Soulution, fo... | |
| MQA according to new Stereophile "loudness button" and "tweaking EQ in presence region" The editor of Stereophile sent a recording he had made to MQA to be MQAd. When he got it back he couldn’t readily distinguish this recording, very familiar to him, from the MQA version. He tried, under very carefully controlled conditions.Many MQA... | |
| MQA according to new Stereophile "loudness button" and "tweaking EQ in presence region" Reichert wrote:"Back in the 1960s, I bought every Dylan record . . but all his records sound opaque, annoyingly hard, and overly compressed. Every time I listen to Dylan, I ask myself, Why must they sound like this? I felt this way until I heard Z... | |
| Has Anyone Auditioned an LKS MH-DA004 DAC? Thanks, but if it is what you say, why mod? What is the nature of your mod?I'm near to pulling the trigger. Anything I need to know? | |
| Has Anyone Auditioned an LKS MH-DA004 DAC? Anyone?It’s a new DAC with two mono ESS9038pro DAC chips in parallel (said to be equivalent to 32 9028 DAC channels in parallel).and with fully discrete output stages....no op amps. | |
| VPI Analogue Drive System Running your TT at the right speed (or nearly so) is not a tweak. It's just a very basic thing everyone should do, like leveling the platter. | |
| VPI Analogue Drive System Keeping the speed at 33.3 is an important function of a speed controller, but it is not the most important thing. Maintaining that speed without micro-speed changes is even ore important and is heard in better, smoother, sound. I can vouch for the... | |
| 2nd pivot for VPI 3D I think it would be useful of reviewers of the 2nd pivot let us know which cartridge is being used for evalualtion. I suspect that the pivot would be more beneficial to low compliance (stiff) cartridges rather than high compliance ones. | |
| Outer Platter Rings About 2 years ago I bought NOS TTW 2.5 lb. ring weight. I wouldn’t be without it and use it (with a center weight) on all records, though when they are demonstrated it is often with badly warped ones and it does make some formerly unplayable disks... | |
| Long XLR Interconnect Cables I recently went from short balanced interconnects between preamp and amp and long speaker wires to long (23 feet, 7 meter) balanced interconnects and short speaker wires and I like what I hear. I’m using Mogami 2549 which is VERY inexpensive, and ... | |
| Is there somewhere I can check vinyl sound quality? I agree with paraneer and with fjn04. Good old records in their original pressings are the best. Most reissues disappoint me.For classical music I would suggest also that you go to a used bookstore and find an old Penguin Guide, old enough so that... |