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| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? Also, Joni Mitchell title song from Night Ride Home and Passion Play...well recorded and mixed. And another shout out to Radio Paradise! | |
| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? CD: Convergence, Malia and Boris Blank. Terrific headphone album, great base lines/effects, in-ur-ear, enveloping vocals. especially... Fever, Smouldering Ashes, Tears Run Dry... | |
| Package Has Disappeared in USPS System I'd just like to point out that the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, appointed by a Trump appointed Board of 9 Directors was a major Trump contributor who in 2012 published his plan to run USPS thus... from Wikipedia: In March 2021, DeJoy ... | |
| EverSolo DMP-A8 with Denafrips Pontus 15th, both have i2S A followup....I'm fluxomed, cause I use the OPPO HDMI output to the breakout box to get I2s into the Pontus so as to enjoy the DSD DAC in the Pontus to hear SACDs with a better DAC than the OPPO...depending on the recording it can be the Best Soun... | |
| EverSolo DMP-A8 with Denafrips Pontus 15th, both have i2S I'm no electrical or sound engineer but consider: This visual comparison to Denefrips DDC clocks is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbK2kxg7X0 Alvin calls both Hermes and Gia clocks Oven Controlled, though I wonder if t... | |
| why is it such a PIA to post a bloody photo here ? this platform is cranky as hell ! Test....Nope, with Safari the image ikon only takes a URL (online address); no cut & paste here. | |
| What is your top sexy song? I know it was “Top Tune” but being a single old goat I’m ignoring Voltaire’s advice that “once is passion, twice is perversion”: 1. Melody Gardot & Sting say there may be “A Little Something”… 2. Roy Buchanan tries to control “Mr... | |
| Solo streamer "Reality only exists because we invented Time"...Oppenheimer So, thanks jazzman7 for sending me down a Tech rabbit hole of "clocks" for 3/4th of my day... lol. Back in the good ole Air Force pre-GPS, analogue days (1970's for me) we alwa... | |
| Solo streamer I'm a month late to the party here but to: jazzman7 and @monowatcher, Clock source can depend on the DAC. Maybe not normal synchronous I2s protocol but according to my Owners Manual for Pointus II, "incoming signals are all stored, buffere... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 OP, I was just reading up on Ayre products...pretty nice/expensive. I guess the essence of my posts is that an I2s input port on a DAC will usually provide a step up in sound quality over USB/SPIDF/AES connections...YMMV. | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 BTW, the Denifrips USB port from a new MacBook Pro can also provide just as good sounding Hi-res binaural downloaded files as the I2s CD/Blueray connection. The Pontus handles all the buffering/oversampling and re-clocking functions you need rega... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 I've repeated this post a few times...here's the article that was published Jan,2021, that describes using an OPPO player to output SACD content via an HDMI cable to a cheap I2s breakout box and on to the I2s port on the Pontus II. I duplicat... | |
| Youtube audiophile hi res sounds MUCH better than my Eversolo streamer So a bit of googling shows U-Tube at 750p maxes out at 128kbs AAC and YouTube Premium (old Red) maxes at 256kbs ACC. YouTube accepts hi res up to 96kbs Flac lossless, but these are transcoded to the above levels. They recommend submitting t... | |
| Yello - Reel to Reel The Limited Edition Dolby Atmos Blue Ray "Point" is really fun. I don't have height speakers but the "stage" changes between front and surround speakers. Very high quality recording for my 7.1 surround system. | |
| Transport Recommendations Tweak1, The ET3 has I2s (HDMI) output, but doesNot do SACD for lack of license, but are working on it. Here's a Darko review: |