moonwatcher
Responses from moonwatcher
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? As others have mentioned, LAIV has been having build quality issues lately. They are new, so might be going through growing pains, so buyer beware. Holo May and Cyan are "the" DACs every reviewer has loved. The Denafrips Pontus 15th is indeed (upo... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh @howardlee get it while you can and while you know it is "good". I kick myself every time I record concerts, wishing I had bought some AKG-C480B mics when I had the chance... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh @tkrtrb125 just that we’ve seen this movie before, and the ending isn’t pretty. The same thing happened to AKG, the originally Austrian brand that made studio quality microphones. Once they were sold, the brand name recognition was used to market ... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh Can't wait for all those McIntosh Bluetooth headphones and speakers at Best Buy for $29.95. Those will definitely be screaming "quality". Maybe they can put a green LED on them for branding purposes. Ugh. | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC, why did they change it ? @decooney thanks for that input. Nice to know it (the Bifrost 2/64) isn't a "rolled off" dark sounding DAC. I'll take all that under consideration for its price point of under $1K. Other reviewers have mentioned that to "best" it, you do indeed ha... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC, why did they change it ? I'm considering the Bifrost 2/64. Do any of you have experience with it compared to the Yggy versions? Does it too sound "dark" similar to the Yggy LIM or would it be more neutral? I've heard good things about it, but not sure I want a DAC that is... | |
| What is your favorite budget streamer? In your $350 price range, I'd order both, the Bluesound Node 130 which as @coronado2 said, is on "special" now for $349 since it will soon be discontinued for the three new models of "Nodes" they have come out with, AND the Wiim Ultra. Test them o... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Might want to check out Steve Guttenberg's experience with using SUTs. Sounds (no pun intended) like an interesting pursuit. Have fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAPAPmfscc&t=28s | |
| Physical degradation of CD's Just know that the "energy" of the laser reading the pits and spaces is nowhere near the energy that was used to create them. So, no, you can play a CD a million times and it will be just as good as the first time. This was indeed one of the "sell... | |
| Can't get Bluesound Node to connect to DAC via iFi iPurifier2 ? Just to be clear, from the instructions for a Node N130, the USB "input" can indeed be used as an OUTPUT. "USB OUTPUT (TYPE A) The NODE is capable of transferring digital audio (USB Audio 2.0) through to an external DAC via the USB Type-A slot. ... | |
| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui Congratulations on your system and retirement. I hope you enjoy them both very much for a very long time. It seems we have reached a point where DACs like the Tambaqui, and others at similar price points, have reached a pinnacle of sound quality ... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery I think most of us might agree with the OP that maybe there is a legitimate electrical engineering reason that some DACs sound better than others, but ultimately it is almost a fool’s errand to try figuring out which is the "best" DAC. I mean, yo... | |
| Microphone recommendation for recording 2 channel demos @smodtactical as @asvjerry mentioned, you can rent mics from Guitar Center and try several, but their selection is limited. While I like my Rode NT5 matched pair just fine, (for $429), if I had to do it over again, I'd likely have moved up to a... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? @terry9 this isn't the forum for it, but there is a huge difference between "climate change" and making the assertion that it is caused by mankind contributing a very small change in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The United States coul... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? There probably has NEVER been any "objectivity or sincerity" in ANY print magazine reviews. We were all just a bunch of naive kids in the 1970s and 1980s reading these magazines and Cream and Rolling Stone. Well, we aren’t so freaking naive anymor... |