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| MQA is Legit! I have read from many sources that MQA is or can be much better than red book. I think the more important parts are around licensing, costs, DRM (does not seem to be a problem) and monopoly about an audio technology. | |
| MQA is Legit! If someone wants to read more about MQA Stereophile has a long Q&A about it.https://www.stereophile.com/content/mqa-questions-and-answersOne interesting part was this:Many recording and mastering engineers have testified that MQA improves very... | |
| Looking for suggestions on best small footprint speaker under $4K Boenicke W5 is very small. I liked it when I heard it at an audio show and they have some good reviews.http://boenicke-audio.ch/w5_c/ | |
| Budget Music Streamer @jwricci2 Nice find with the Allo!I have just bought a Raspberry Pi with a spdif card and will try to assemble it and try it out with my dac. Cheaper but much more work. Next step for me would either be a better dac or a re-clocker.I don't use Air... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! Sometimes I think that if given the financial resources I would by an all-in-one system. Then all pieces should be suitable together. Active speakers have amps that should be selected to work with the drivers, any dac inside should be good enough ... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? I think the question about audio products being over-prices are pretty meaningless unless you explain your thinking in more detail. If you don't think you can hear any difference at all between a $100 dac and a $10 000 dac you can just buy the che... | |
| Going to try digital Wifi is much more practical if you don’t have cables throughout your house or have the router next to the stereo.@audioengr I am glad to hear that you have a solution, if I need one later I will check your site.I don’t have a high-end stereo yet a... | |
| Going to try digital Regarding ethernet or USB there is at least One more option, using wifi. If the dac has a memory and a reclocker it should be possible to get really good sound with wifi.https://darko.audio/2018/08/ethernet-or-wifi-which-is-better-for-high-end-aud... | |
| Going to try digital Naim NDX2 seems to be good if you want a streaming solution. You can add Uniti Core for ripping if you need that and don't want to use your computer. They also have ND555 if you want state of the art.NAD M50.2 is often mentioned as a good solution... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) I think the problem with asking about the "best value" is that it is almost always the least expensive items in the range. The law of diminishing returns seems to still be in effect. Unless you start counting in absolute money "savings" then a hig... | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? I've heard the Devialet at a show and they sounded good to me. I am sure there are other good class-D amps also.https://www.devialet.com/en-us/expert-pro-audio-system/ | |
| Mr. Obvious (?) - digital source (burn) A dac has to decode the values of the data stream AND the clock signal "built-in" in the signal. The source has to send both. Some dacs are sensitive to timing errors and is therefor sensitive to which transport or source that is used. Others dacs... | |
| Best Phone Stage for under $1,000.000 Why all the extra zeros in the question op?Do you often pay tenth of a cent? Or even care about the cents for anything costing > $100? | |
| Which DAC: Benchmark, Mytek, Audio Mirror, Holo Audio, Mojo Audio? There was a Long discussion about the Lab12 Dac1 SE a while ago. It probably mentioned other dacs as well. If you ignore the click-baity headline it sounds like an interesting option.https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/a-dac-that-crushes-price-... | |
| Dumb file size question. You should be able to choose a compressed but lossless format if you use a pc to play the music. Then you can use FLAC or WMA Lossless and the files will be much smaller. |