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| 15k for streamer and dac....how much on each? You could get a Grimm MU2 streamer/DAC. I have the streamer only and it is excellent. | |
| Sweet Sounding DAC If you are looking for something warmish, sweet even then Lampizator can produce excellent results. I had a play back designs MPS 5 sacd/dac which was replaced with a Lampizator golden gate, much better. The GG was tunable with different valve c... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? The DAC is important, however improving the streamer/source I think is just as important. I have owned a few DACs and they all sounded different but all were improved when supplied with a better digital supply. | |
| Do I buy an upscale TT? I had a Kuzma XL Dc, 2 arms, 4pt and ref 313 , various carts including an atlas. It was my ultimate TT , carefully isolated, it sounded great. Along the way I built a sophisticated streamer coupled with a lampizator dac and it sounded as good, so... | |
| Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig? I found the quality of the streamer used made a huge difference to my digital set up. Moving away from a standard mac or windows computer/laptop was a big improvement. | |
| If you had $12k / £10k to upgrade your analogue front-end... The technics SL1200G is excellent for the price. I managed a comparison with a Rega 10, I preferred the direct drive. I did have a very expensive Vinyl set up with a Kuzma XL dc and 4pt arm which I had to sell due to moving house. The Technics ma... | |
| Want to add vinyl to my system. I can only but agree with mijostyn. I am a record collector from the 70s, have reduced my collection to around 1200 or so now. I would not bother with vinyl now if strarting from scratch. I had a superb vinyl setup, kuzma XLDC, 4pt, Atlas, Ypsil... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? I used to think that CD was better than using a streamer having a playback designs SCAD player and this was the case for some years. However I built a dedicated 2 box computer/streamer following the audiophilestyle forum for advice. It took a whil... | |
| Analog vs. digital 👍 | |
| Analog vs. digital ha ha yes indeed $75000 and $16000 - crazy that we spend those amounts!! | |
| Analog vs. digital I had a $75 analog set up and my digital gear with diy streamer and commercial DAC (together $16) equalled, sometimes bettered, analogue. However LPs that were recorded in analogue eg 50s, 60s, 70s jazz were generally preferred depending on the m... | |
| If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs The audio desk CD lathe is excellent. | |
| Suggestions for a streamer only (I have a great DAC) The innuos statement streamer I believe is very good, depending on your budget the Taiko SGM extreme is as good as it gets https://taikoaudio.com/taiko-2020/sgm-extreme-music-server/ I have also read good things about the Grimm audio streamer MU1... | |
| If Steve Got You Last Week... I don’t have Tidal or Qobuz to compare, I have been thinking about trialling one or the other to do a comparison.Others on Audiophile style, using a similar setup to myself, report local files generally sounding better than streamed services - eve... | |
| If Steve Got You Last Week... When people are talking about streaming here I assume they mean the likes of Tidal and Qobuz. I find streaming files I have ripped from CD and play from my diy streamer sound much better than when played from the CD player I had. |