mapman
Responses from mapman
| What has your audiophile experience taught you about yourself? That I love music and understanding the technology well enough to make proper choices to help assure the music sounds as good as it can as well. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Music is a much more interesting topic than fuses IMHO.But plenty of appropriate threads to talk about that or you can always start a new one. Better than than water down one about a technology/product,.The music might sound really good without a... | |
| Dac that produces music I've heard high end DACs and don't know if better or not, (have never A/Bed against the best) but otherwise a used mhdt Constantine fits the bill you describe if you can find one used for not very much. Could save a lot of money that can go else... | |
| Pros & Cons of Buying an Integrated with Built-in DAC? If simplicity and convenience matter along with good sound, there are some very good choices available out there.I bought a BelCanto C5i (true digital amp with DAC and phono) as an experiment to test the downsizing option in my second system and g... | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC Enjoy and Happy Birthday. 🎂 | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Enjoying the weather out on the deck listening to Hot Tuna "Burgers" on the, Minimus 7s. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Was just listening to and reading about Morrison Hotel as well. 👌 | |
| Synergistic Research Atmosphere Power Cords. 😝😁😬😒🤗😏😑😽 | |
| The best separates between $2500-3000. Moving on from the original Rogue Sphinx Intg.. Yes, we are.I know you always do your homework.... :^) | |
| Magnetic isolation Even Foxnews and CNN sometimes agree on some things. :^)You’d think it would happen more often considering they both advertise as news not opinion channels. | |
| The best separates between $2500-3000. Moving on from the original Rogue Sphinx Intg.. FWIW I would hesitate to replace a newer amp based on switching technology (Class D) with any older ones.The technology has improved immensely in general in recent years and has not yet peaked in terms of bandwidth possible.I heard a current ARC S... | |
| Upsampling - but seriously folks The technology is always worth knowing and understanding but in this case I would just listen and compare. Either way can be done well or not. What any individual will prefer soundwise cannot be predicted.FWIW I have both oversampling and non ... | |
| Magnetic isolation One thing I thought of that I saw pointed out on other forums is that magnetic fields and phono carts and associated low level phono lines do not mesh well together.Just something to be aware of. My guess would be tht there is not close enough pro... | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC Buying a Swiss amp is like buying a pair of Italian shoes. Very nicely crafted but not for everyone. There should be a very good reason to go that way because nobody has cornered the market yet on top notch sound or nice shoes. | |
| Synergistic Research Atmosphere Power Cords. Yes I agree the warm to the touch observation was a very useful one for clearly determining if things might be working better than they are.Also the comment about how simple commercial grade in house wiring seems to be up to the task as described ... |