p05129
Responses from p05129
| No God No! Say it Ain’t So! McIntosh makes nice products, maybe Bose wants McIntosh to help them get better. Most people don’t realize that high end audio is an expensive niche hobby. The sell maybe a few hundred a year compared to lower level products that sell thousands. ... | |
| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? SQ pecking order: DSD, then MQA, then hi res, then cd quality. But it also depends on the mastering process. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? Make some suggestions that might help the sq like setup changes, room treatment, etc. But if you know that the speaker/amp combo will never work (for example a cool sounding amp with analytic sounding speakers or warm sounding speakers with a warm... | |
| DAC connection to computer Travelinjack-I agree with you but some of the other posters are way off base. My server running Roon will never be hooked up to a dac. When I was using this Mac straight into the dac, the server was in another room and I used Ethernet to the dac.... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! Why? I have friends that had the 3.7’s and the 20.7’s and they don’t anymore. I never liked the sound. Lean bass and these friends tried to get subwoofers to work with them with no luck. They filled their respective rooms which is probably the bes... | |
| Streaming, Getting the Signal, Then What? Wrong again. More and more of your better dacs don’t use usb and more and more are adding i2s and Ethernet. USB is flawed, never meant to provide good sq. I did all of that 10 years ago or more with usb dacs and all the gimmicky reclockers, femto ... | |
| Looking for my End Game Speaker Of course speakers from audiotroy are amazing and he just happens to have them in stock. You have a small room so I’m curious why you want to go with big speakers? I had a pair of larger floorstanding speakers and moved to a new house where my ro... | |
| DAC question - is music streamer DAC better than mcintosh DA2? All dacs/phono stages built into an integrated amp or separate preamp are comprises vs a good standalone. I had a newer high budget McIntosh preamp a couple of years ago with a built in dac and phono preamp, which didn’t sound anywhere close to my... | |
| A brief review of GR Research Bully I didn’t say you need a sub to get good bass. I don’t have subs in my current setup nor did I have subs in my large dedicated audio room. But I had large speakers with 11” woofers and used the Cardas/Jim Smith speaker positioning to get maximum cl... | |
| A brief review of GR Research Bully A couple of things. IMO, The OP tried to do the impossible in the beginning, no passive speaker was going to provide decent bass at low volumes, and IMO the only way to get even bass at low volumes is to get 1 or many powered subwoofers. GR makes ... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? Why ask this to a group that uses usb to the dac? The sound is already compromised by using usb. What do you think your streamer is? It’s a computer running probably a tainted Linux version. You think Linux is better than OS X? Try again. Some ma... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move Sorry but the Revels, Magico, and Wilson’s are in a much higher league than Klipsch, and especially any magnepan speakers. If you want the more current technology at a $10k savings, look at the Revel f328be speaker instead of the Salon 2s. If you... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? Why would you ask if a cable would improve your system? Nobody has your system, or your room, so how can somebody know how your system will sound with a different cable? Only you can tell if a cable will make your system sound better. Also, what’... | |
| Do high dollar mono blocks truly improve the Sound Quality over the mid tier amps I’ve had many Classe pieces in the past: ca-200, 3 of their preamps last 1 being the cp-60, and the last amps being the ca-m600 monos. I didn’t like the newer Classe products and I didn’t like the thinking of Classe was going to be in business tom... | |
| Borresen X3 vs Harbeth 40.2 -- my impressions Nobody can evaluate a speaker against another in 2 different systems, in 2 different rooms. System synergy and room acoustics come into play here. when I looked at Harbeth speakers in the past, I went with another brand mainly because of the sound... |