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Bought some 14/2 “speaker wire” from Home Depot
Exactly Zavato.Teoaudii, that is why good engineers design for stability and hence properly applied even with a complex load distortion can be much less (even or odd) with negative feedback than so called linear amplifiers which are only somewhat ... 
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
Most audiophiles are old and here that is just fact. Older people have significantly reduced high frequency range almost as a rule. Again just fact.You are literally anthropomorphising an electrical signal not to mention interchanging sound and el... 
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
What do you think aliasing is? Please don"t tell other people they are hopelessly inaccurate when you don’t know the subject matter. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5495907More your level see paragraph 2.https://sonobat.com/understanding-alia... 
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
I have noticed that older audiophiles seem more attracted to NOS DACs.  I suspect the artifacts compensate for loss of high frequencies that can give a sense of space to recordings. It bears out in the subjective opinions given.Remember not about ... 
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
Accurate meaning what was picked up by the microphone, not what you think it should sound like which is the reference most audiophiles use almost all.  
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
It sounds wonderful to you and that is all that matters and yes you very well may enjoy those artifacts though depending on age may not hear the bulk of them. It gives a light and airy sound to redbook. Some love it.  Embrace it but don't confuse ... 
AB Testing Experiences
That post was ignorant level 1. Our whole concept of tone balance is tied to volume. Change the volume, our perceived tone balance changes and no amount of listening experience will ever change that. Increasing volume also brings out detail that c... 
Bought some 14/2 “speaker wire” from Home Depot
It would be pure copper as pretty much all residential 14 awg Romex is. How will tinning the ends change the sound? 96% may have lead may not.  
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
What happens when you feed them 16/44.1?Or are you assuming the music is already upsampled as the vast majority of music is not native 24/192. Not just upsampled but filtered as well.There is not much justification for NOS. None really except for ... 
Bought some 14/2 “speaker wire” from Home Depot
I will go with mainly 4, but high frequency is mainly inductance not gauge of wire so your Analysis Plus cables don't need to be that special to be work well. 
Thinking about getting a R2R DAC
Lots of interesting views in this thread. Modern DACs have more than enough resolution in their digital filters to reconstruct the signal at higher sampling rates, well beyond the analog performance.  NOS DACs are not accurate. They used to have w... 
AB Testing Experiences
Fair amount of experience but almost impossible to do with speakers. If you can't match levels almost perfect it's meaningless. That is very difficult with speakers making true AB difficult. Even comparing DACs I would be surprised the levels are... 
Peachtree Reliability issues?
A switch mode supply should not click 6 or 7 times. That's a system thing. Normal? ... Hope not. Sounds like bad design. 
vinyl versus digital redux
Atmosphere, the op was referring to master tapes which in general will be stored properly for any media company of note and for which my comment applied.  Note my next sentence.The biggest concern is break down of the underlying binder for the mag... 
Amp repair cost — is this right?
Based on the comments I will take that bet. A bunch show evidence of understanding the work just fine. It's the ones that go off on a tangent with esoteric replacement parts that make me pause.