moto_man
Responses from moto_man
| Audio Research REF 6 to REF 6SE upgrade. Well, I love my ARC REF6 and I have very little interest in paying $5K to upgrade it. I suspect that as with a lot of upgrades, the improvements might be audible, but not by much. I am sure that there is something that I can upgrade for $5K that... | |
| Jazz like this? Suggestions Magnus Ringblom Quartet is music that I have never listened to. Great mellow stuff! Thanks for the suggestion! | |
| Pass Labs XP32 or XP22? I have a Pass Labs 250.8. As some others here have said, the ARC REF6 has a very sweet synergy with the Pass. I also tried going MSB DAC to amp, and VAC Renaissance Mark V as well, and the ARC REF6 sounded significantly better to me. Replacing ... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable I am hijacking my own thread. Doesn't it make sense that if cables sound different, they should measure different, or the sound coming out of the speakers can be measured as being different? I definitely have heard audible improvements with diffe... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @roxy54, I don’t think that he is actually disparaging this particular product so much as disparaging the high end cable industry, for their lack of objectively verifiable evidence to support their sales pitches. Like you. I read a number of recom... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @roxy54, I think that he was bemoaning the fact that so many expensive cables are sold on sizzle and no actual objective empirical data to back that sizzle up. I too wonder why improvements in sound by cables cannot be objectively measured, or at... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @1971gto455ho , I don’t want this to turn into a cables do/dont make any audible difference discussion, but I agree with you that logically, if something sounds different, there should be a way to measure that difference, either with REW and a hig... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @richmon, I hear you. I read the same stuff, most of it years ago. All I can tell you is that Brad was a perfect seller with me, and the cables really are excellent and an excellent value. If you are really interested, just mention the issues a... | |
| Adding a Dac and Stresmer If you can find one used, I would highly recommend the MSB Analog DAC and Power Base with their renderer. It is a great DAC/streamer and fantastic 3D soundstage. I upgraded to that from a Naim NDX which was also a nice DAC/streamer, but not in t... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable I guess my 65 year old ears weren't fooling! Both @rrboogie @roxy54 heard the same thing as I did. Trying to describe these improvements gives me some new respect for reviewers who try to describe such improvements. Would I say that it was ... | |
| Tidal class-action I am surprised at the hostility being thrown around here. What is the purpose of MQA files? At least for me, I thought that it was a hi-res stream that through methods unknown, was "unfolded" to its former glory by your DAC. I have both Tidal a... | |
| Speaker cable suggestions I started with Audience Au24’s, then moved to Cardas Golden Cross, then MIT 3.3 Shotguns, then Morrow SP7 and finally after several years, my keepers, Shunyata Alpha v2’s. I liked every one of the cables, but as my speakers and system changed, so ... | |
| Tidal class-action @audioisnobiggie, I have briefly looked into the tech of MQA and found it surprising. Here is an excerpt from the article on MQA in Wikipedia: 'MQA encoding is lossy;[24][25] it hierarchically compresses the relatively little energy in the highe... | |
| Power cords known to produce good bass I have definitely found that replacing stock power cables with high end ones improved the sound in my system, especially in the bass, first Audience and then Shunyata. The problem is one of expectation. Hearing an audible difference is a far cry ... | |
| Tidal class-action I don’t know enough about the MQA technology to opine on it, but I know that I paid for the top tier to get access to hi-res MQA files. If the MQA file is merely an upscaled Redbook file, it is false advertising. It is that simple. |