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| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Someone mentioned a re-clocker. Here is another one you could try to improve the sound.https://www.amazon.com/Wyred-Sound-Recovery-USB-Reclocker/dp/B01CUTMKYM/ | |
| Are Pass Labs amps probably the best ever you can buy ? There are many good amps. I am No expert but I have liked Mark Levinson during demos as well as Devialet. | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? I think this kind of rip-off ideas are very strange. If it was easy to create a cheap copy of any equipment there would be lots of cheap versions. Manufacturers also has to cover costs for Wales, marketing, support and R&D.Not all small firms ... | |
| Chord Dave Replacement You could try some of the newer dacs that has gotten good reviews. Like the Lab12.https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/a-dac-that-crushes-price-vs-performance-ratio | |
| All in One DAC/Pre/headphone amp vs Separates I think you should start with better headphones, like the Beyerdynamics Amiron Home which are probably a lot better than dt880 and warmer than dt1990. I have the Amiron and love them.For listening through speakers it is really hard to say when a p... | |
| Just got the Focal Scala V2 at a great price I heard Focal speakers with Mark Levinson amps years ago and that worked great. Maybe their latest integrated will suite you.For something French you can try Devialet. | |
| JBL - almost nothing for sale, why? I heard the JBL K2 att a fair years ago. They were kind of hidden in a corner but they played them when I asked. They sounded great but were outside my budget. | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. I like the questions and answers part from Paul McGowan of PS Audio. Here is his answer to this questionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6h4qYxkCc | |
| New iMac, no more Optical out! Help with DAC, best bang for buck? The Dragonfly Black or Audioengine D3 should work. Connect to inputs om you receiver with a 3,5mm to RCA cable. | |
| WHAT HAPPENED TO SONUS FABER? The new Aida seems to be very musical!https://www.stereophile.com/content/sonus-faber-aida-loudspeaker | |
| Files from a Harddrive to a DAC vs dedicated digital player? You may also use wifi directly with some streamers and Still get good sound according to this article. https://darko.audio/2018/08/ethernet-or-wifi-which-is-better-for-high-end-audio-streaming/ That is of course special hardware and I am not sure ... | |
| Cannot find perfect sound Since you speak of timing, have you tried horn speakers or similar that uses on driver for most of the frequency range? Like Avantgarde Acoustics. Should help a lot with timing.Some speakers like the Kii Three has some DSP functions that can be... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers @skyscraper , since you listen mostly to jazz I would also suggest that you listen to Focal Kanta 2. I heard them with an acoustic piece and it was very suitable for them. | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers Some other threads mentioned Boenicke. I looked it up and remebered that I heard the small W5 at a show and they impressed me. You might want to listen to their W11 or W8 floorstanders. | |
| DAC OR NO DAC??? I have a Jitterbug and it works great. Of course, I didn't have any interference problem without it but the sound got better with it. You can also check iFi's filters. Or go all-out and get a re-clocker and then a not-to-expsensive dac. I have als... |