yesiam_a_pirate
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| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? It's the first deadly sin: Pride. "I'm better than you so how can you have anything better than I have?' Clearly you cannot, therefore do not. Greed: "I want what's mine- even if you think it's yours" Lying: to themselves and others about wha... | |
| I Cried Today God bless you for your kindness and tender heart toward your fellow man. | |
| New DAC with streamer I have a PS Audio DSD Mk1 and ditched the card for a separate PS Audi AirLens Streamer. Night and day difference. The card was a pain in the arse- dropping signal and needing to be rebooted all the time. Plus the sound sucked on almost all music.... | |
| My High End Audio Gear As A Long Term Investment!!! Audio gear is not a good investment financially. It depreciates. Rapidly in many cases. No matter how much I love a piece (I'm an ARC fanboy) the used ones go down in value each year- and why shouldn't they? Caps wear out. tubes fail, pots get wor... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! Changing houses makes me change speakers. My end game speakers become unsatisfactory as the room they are in changes. I've given up believing that I can build the ultimate end game rig. I've embraced the reality that swaps and upgrades are part ... | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. It's both and something else too. It's a lot of fun to tinker, learn, design, and grow in the hobby. Add to that the love of music faithfully reproduced and !Viola! A payoff for your hard work. Most HiFi guys are aesthetics- lovers of beauty, s... | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing I bought the new PS Audio Air Lens Streamer to replace their Bridge II streamer and mated it to a PS Audio Direct Stream Mark 1 DAC and the improvement was fantastic. I'm very happy with the sound, detail, bass and easy operation. Airlens: $1600 ... | |
| LessLoss C-Marc Entropic Speaker Cable I think the HiFi world is running out of superlatives to describe the latest thing's transformational-therefore-you-must-buy-them items. | |
| Importance of the Preamp in a system I have experimented with using my DAC as the pre-out to the power amps and using a preamp. Of course louder volume is achieved with the preamp, but also a lot more "music" as the preamp added detail. At least that's what my system revealed. The wi... | |
| HAVE YOU ARRIVED AT YOUR FINAL SYSTEM AND WHAT’S IN IT? WHAT ARTIST IS YOUR GO TO? I'm happy with what I have (finally loaded in my profile) and can't imagine that I'd stop upgrading. It's a lot of fun buying "the next thing" used or new at a deep discount. I think I have under 15K all-in at this point. About 1/3 of retail. | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! https://imgur.com/a/WAjzRtA Here is my experience as of yesterday 10/23: I bought a PS Audio Direct Stream DAC with the above bridge card in it. I love the DAC- way better than my other DAC experiences. The Bridge II was a disappointing experi... | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! https://imgur.com/a/WAjzRtA | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! My experience so far: I bought a PS Audio Direct Stream DAC/ Streamer with the the Bridge !! ethernet adapter about a month ago. In short the DAC is great but the Bridge II card left a lot to be desired. The music was dull and flat. All but the r... | |
| ARC amp differences. I'm not sure why jasonbourne is so exercised about ARC. Maybe it's because he can't get a set of Ref 160 monoblocks in his Mini Cooper :) Tube gear is fussy- like a Ferrari is fussy. You have to pay to play. My experience with ARC has been very ... | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/how-to/how-to-make-a-50-pair-of-high-end-xlr-cables?_pos=1&_sid=64203f5ff&_ss=r I feel your pain. I have purchased Morrow, and Audioquest XLR interconnects at what I consider a tidy sum- over $1000 f... |