mikhailark
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| dac recommendations for turntable listener? Audio Note comes to mind considering your tastes. You can also purchase one preassembled from kits at ANK site. All tubes, well known "musical" AD chip. https://ankaudiokits.com/product-category/dac/ Denafrips makes excellent DACs, but they may ... | |
| Impact of a DDC using SPDIF (not I2S) Denafrips actually recommends using DAC clock and Hermes can operate on Terminator (DAC) clock - this is my setup. I think DDC effect depends on quality of USB source. You may get biggest value if source is a PC which tend to be noisy. On the othe... | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? @devinplombier - some manufacturers do not recommend any devices between their unit and AC mains. Simply because they never tested their product with all possible "conditioners". Similarly, Pass and Accuphase recommend using supplied power cables ... | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? I primarily use them as surge protection. I have lighting/surge protection for the house, but add more for expensive equipment. Sound improvement? Haven’t noticed. YMMV. There are no a big RFI or EMI sources where I live and mains are clean. Nothi... | |
| Upgrading to a stand alone DAC Denafrips R2R DACs are hard to beat for the price. | |
| Eversolo DMP 8 audition going poorly... @magp19 nothing beats operating Tidal from a PC with mouse and 34" screen. I don't use iPad much. Besides, this allows me to do other things while music is playing, if I have to. | |
| Eversolo DMP 8 audition going poorly... @ossicle2brain - to some extent true - but streaming services do not necessarily stream the same material. I tried (1) LP, (2) same LP recorded into DSD by me, (3) HDTracks 24/96, (4) CD and (5) Tidal. (1) and (2) sounded identical to me via reall... | |
| Lightening damage - any hope? Are you sure it was Ethernet issue and not power mains spike? It is pretty common for storms to cause voltage spikes. This is why I have surge protection for the entire home. Now, have you checked fuses? They may have been blown. | |
| Eversolo DMP 8 audition going poorly... @ossicle2brain I wonder what makes you think that. Streams are not that much different from CD and CDs are not error-free media (bit wise) while networks are. | |
| Stack Audio-SmoothLAN Network Filter- WOW! @milpai - just 100 mbps gives me pause since it means cheap low end components in $250 unit? Why is not capable of 1GB at least. | |
| Preamp for Parasound A21+ with Sonus Faber Venere 3.0 speakers Oh boy, are you are a kindergarten teacher or everyone’s mother. No one asks YOU to be spending of your precious time. There is enough information on what OP is looking at. Even specific model. @OP - Yeah, I would first stick with the same manu... | |
| AI-Written Stereophile Articles Any examples? There are ways to detect AI writings | |
| Aftermarket fuse to tame a bright system? @rhg3 - I recently did a lot of experimentation with miniDSP (SHD). It is a good DAC, but not great. Adding it in analog chain may not be a good idea since EQ is digital so the path will involve AD conversion and back. Now, I also tried adding SHD... | |
| Aftermarket fuse to tame a bright system? But... it seems you were intentionally going the bright way - silver cables, for example. I'd look at replacing main components first. Pass Labs comes to mind - detailed without being bright yet not as warm as tubes. | |
| What’s your opinion about Dali speakers? Are you looking at them b/c of the hybrid tweeter? |