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| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship This also brings to mind attempts to generalize about usb vs I2S performance. I suspect individual setups could have quite different outcomes, optimized usb at both streamer and dac could surpass less than ideal I2S outputs from streamer. I do bel... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship At some point this winter I'll likely purchase Pink Faun I2S card, or hopefully JCAT comes out with I2S card. Comparison then becomes: 1. Present setup is server-Roon core, streamer-Sonore OpticalRendu-Roon endpoint. Server>Sonore OpticalModu... | |
| Yet another Sub Question Already half way there, get the second T9x. I have two, easily beats any of the single sub setups I tried over the decades. Far better integration with main speakers, simply an extension rather than an add on. Far more forgiving of sub placement a... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I don't know if you'd call it jaw dropping, more along the lines of marketing by manipulation. Seems like every dealer had those switch boxes where they could switch out speakers, amps, what have you. Who knows what tricks they had up their sleeve... | |
| Where does music come from that streams? Bottom line for me, provenance doesn't matter much. Sound quality tells me everything I need to know about provenance. | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Two perspectives here, money vs value. Sometimes money ceases to lose much of it's value when meaningful change comes. I consider the 006, Gaia and Tubulus Ximius I2S cable as a downright steal at their full retail prices. Obviously I can't te... | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Dream System update Even the best of audio systems are equivalent to works of art virtually no one sees or appreciates, what a lonely obsession. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? If we're only talking about audiophile friends, I've had long discussions with friends about every single aspect of audio, everything out in open and we don't have to agree on everything. | |
| Stack Audio-SmoothLAN Network Filter- WOW! Almost forgot, in speaking about SFP, I found Finisar 1475 in Sonore to be a meaningful upgrade, can't recall exact model, also use 1gb net service. | |
| Stack Audio-SmoothLAN Network Filter- WOW! Has anyone opened up this device to see exactly what it does? All filtering not created equal, not saying it doesn't work but I'd like to see the inside, photos at Stack audio only show what appears to be an unpopulated circuit board. I use JC... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? Per actual experiences. I've sold gear locally so in that case the buyers have been pretty transparent in asking for advice. In buying gear locally sellers are more apt to give advice vs take, somewhat ironic when I hear their system and its not u... | |
| Current quality of Rune @flkin I have Euphony OS on custom build streamer, also have Sonore OpticalRendu streamer. Running in bridged mode, custom build contains Roon core, OR Roon Endpoint. I can also go Roon core on custom, Stylus endpoint on OR. Finally in unbridged m... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Both 006 and Gaia have eight modes for pin assignment via I2S. Certainly there are inherent advantages to I2S scheme vs usb in that I2S has isolated, dedicated lines for both data and clock + and - , L & R channels, with usb, dac has to extrac... | |
| LAIV Harmony Seems streamer manufacturers led the way on adoption of usb as 'de facto' interface. Seems logical to me dac manufacturers would prefer the I2S as the interface of choice being the native protocol for d to a conversion. So we have all these convol... | |
| LAIV Harmony Just as an aside, at one point was running Auralic Vega dac and some other streaming devices off battery PS, lower noise floor, lost dynamics. I have custom build streamer assembled by some of the leading members of that forum, I added JCAT O... |