mitch2
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| Six DAC Comparison After finishing my initial comparison of six DACs without coming to a final conclusion about which of the DACs I enjoyed most, I decided to devote the past month or so to listening more intently and forming a more definitive conclusion. I s... | |
| How do I edit my system? Once you make your changes, be sure to go to the bottom of the page and "Save Changes." If you abandon the post before saving your changes then they will not have been accepted and will probably be lost. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? If you feel compelled to make any comments at all, I would ask them questions like, "how do you like the sound of your system, and what do you like most about it?" "how often are you able to listen?" "how do you like the source you are using ... | |
| Should I use Audiopoints under Aerial 10T spikes on hardwood floor? Not sure how the whole spike thing got started and why people like them. When using four, no matter what I did to create even support would eventually end up with a rocking motion where one spike would no longer be in contact with the floor to the... | |
| Should I use Audiopoints under Aerial 10T spikes on hardwood floor? Townshend platforms (if you want to spend the money) Individual springs sized for the weight and damped with foam inside or thin heat shrink loosely applied outside Platinum Silicone footers by Hudson HiFi or Sound Addicted Sound Anchors stan... | |
| Are the Anthony Gallo Reference 3.5 still up to it? Off-topic (sorry) but I see you have Gato monoblocks and if those are the PWR-222s, how do you like them? I have been interested in them ever since my speaker manufacturer (Michael Kelly with Aerial Acoustics) became a Gato dealer (for a short wh... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @bluethinker - Years ago, I owned a LampizatOr DAC 4 and thought it sounded pretty good except the deal-breaker, to me, was that the soundstage seemed overblown or larger than reality, sort of like an image imprint on Silly Putty that had been str... | |
| Six DAC Comparison Benjamin's take on clocking can be found in here - scroll down to Myth #1-Clocking. Regarding I2S, it was primarily designed for internal use - short runs inside of equipment, which may be a reason there is still no universal standard. When I ow... | |
| Six DAC Comparison I believe Benjamin has spent quite a bit of effort on the quality of the USB input in his DACs and especially since his newer, Mystique Y DAC offers only a USB input. In my case of owning five different Mystique DACs, I heard pretty much the same... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @zmann007 - you are correct about the XMOS receiver chip, although JLsounds is apparently still involved wrt drivers for Windows. I used to see JLsounds come up when I opened mysonicorbiter but since I now run the USB into a DDC and then use S/PD... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @debjit_g -Below is a quote from this review article. “Along with all the premium parts mentioned above, the X SE employs JL Sounds’s USB–to–I2S input module. In macOS’s Audio MIDI Setup, it was nice to see the unit listed as “JLsounds Hi-Rez Au... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit I can offer three suggestions to consider that are not the usual candidates. All three can stay powered up all the time: SMc Audio VRE-1C - This is one of the most natural solid state preamps out there. Unfortunately, it is above your price r... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Little Feat - The Last Record Album | |
| Holy Holostages!! I am certainly no expert (unless you consider I have had Shakti Stones sitting over the power supplies in my equipment for years - too lazy to sell them), but my dumb, common-sense logic makes me believe anything to be affected by crystals would n... | |
| Holy Holostages!! Marketing word salad from the MC write-up: The exact content inside each Holostage is proprietary(1). But it is fair to say it is a complex(2) matrix of piezoelectrically(3) active crystals(4), nano size(5) rare earth elements(6), and cryogenica... |