oddiofyl
Responses from oddiofyl
| From an MHDT to an Audio Mirror, quick impressions Enjoy. It's good to see great products coming from small builders. | |
| Sonore Rendu or similar Boxes were half off on Amazon, everything was less than $90 | |
| Sonore Rendu or similar I used a pair of TP Link media converters. Has a SFP port that accepts an optical module. Works perfectly. Zero noise or problems converting a Ethernet over AC adapter to optical before my network switch | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers Vault / Node is a really good value when you factor user interface, features , sound. Hard to beat. | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers One of the first things I did when I got my Vault 2i was to plug it into my existing DAC. It was an improvement, but like we all often do. I upgraded the DAC. I enjoyed it for a while then I spent a little over $3k on my current DAC. It sound... | |
| To preamp or not to preamp. That is the question. Even in my early days of separates I always spent more to get the best preamp I could . It is the heart of a great system, absolutely without question. Anyone that strongly disagrees most likely has never had a class leading or world class pre... | |
| Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? I avoid tone or EQ for my mains. I use a Velodyne SMS 1 x over / EQ , that is the extent of my electronic room correction. I barely use the sub but using the SMS -1 makes the low end just right | |
| New Sugden mono blocks have arrived. Whoa, those are monsters! Enjoy | |
| To preamp or not to preamp. That is the question. I have tried going direct from more than one DAC direct into an amp and it sounded OK , not spectacular. Put a great preamp in the loop and BAM , everything snaps back into focus, has depth , bass, and great extension. A soul..... If your sys... | |
| Aurender N200 I copied some songs on HDD to the 4 TB SSD I installed and it was easy. I scanned the drive and it got most of the artwork and titles . It actually did a pretty good job considering there were several formats. I am loving this thing more the... | |
| Tube preamp options Yes, do yourself a favor and steer clear of VTL. More like VTHell.... worst customer service on the planet. | |
| Is a femto clock important if you aren't using asynch USB? My best sound is with my Aurender's SPDIF output into my LAB 12 DAC 1's coax input. In my set up it sounds better with the N200's clock than the DAC's internal clock in my set up. Maybe a new USB cable rather than the fairly generic one would... | |
| DAC Chips and Software/Programming I think it has a lot more to do with the implementation. I have one DAC that is fully firmware upgradable, has very good DAC chips and an amazing host of DSP features . Remote control, can record to USB...Its amazing what it can do and it s... | |
| Is a femto clock important if you aren't using asynch USB? Some DACs like my RME adi2 always use their internal clock regardless of input type. It's Femto clock is used also when there is a Coax or Tos. Input, it doesn't just use it's clock for USB. | |
| Is a femto clock important if you aren't using asynch USB? I like buying used but never do it with Digital gear. I did buy a R2R DAC , but I also have a DAC that can do DSD. When I bought my streamer I wanted the latest tech and codecs. I am a late adopter when it comes to everything else..... |