duckworp
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| How do you find time to enjoy your $$$ speakers and system? It’s a great question and one I grapple with. I am retired so have the potential for long hours of listening, but sadly I don’t. To really enjoy music I need to be alone and as my wife is also retired and we like to spend our days together I rare... | |
| Ripping CD's to hard drive Take any PC, plug in any cd-rom drive. Download dbpoweramp onto your pc. This is an external program that costs a small amount. Plug in a usb hard drive into the pc. Tell dbpoweramp to rip to FLAC standard. Tell dbpoweramp where to store the rippe... | |
| A Skeptics Digital Upgrade Journey Re streamer without a DAC: I compared many from a few hundred $ to many thousand $. The best in my opinion is the tiny Pro-Ject stream box S2 ultra. It’s good value and sounds as good as some very expensive options I also tried. Also if you are ge... | |
| best external drive for ripping CDs Any cd-rom drive is good enough as long as you use dbpoweramp to check the rip for 100% accuracy. | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? I really am surprised MQA has lasted so long. Back in 2017 I gave it 5 years tops, and it is still going. Very strange. | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home I would suggest an audition fee if you don’t purchase, to cover their costs and time. I auditioned speakers at home from 4 different dealers. One brought Magico and Wilson speakers around on separate occasions neither of which I bought. I of... | |
| HoloAudio STREAMER is out now Is it Roon certified? | |
| Only two tracks to test your system, forever! Lana Del Ray - Venice B**ch. The width and depth of this marvellous production and the layering of the textures will really test the system. Can the system present this complicated production as a homogenous whole? Does the sound completely fill... | |
| Recommendations for good sounding streamer The best in terms of price is the Chromecast Audio. It also has an internal DAC so you could go from that direct to the amp. Or you can connect it to your dac. And it is tiny and can just dangle out the back of the amp or dac. It costs only a few ... | |
| Flat Screen Television behind speakers Having your screen between the speakers is a very good thing: films and TV will sound spectacular. I have a high end system (Vitus Dac/amp plus top of the range Boenicke speakers) and films sounds better than any cinema room I have ever heard. ... | |
| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? If you’re using the ability to replicate live music as a measure of success in Hi-Fi sound, then a flat frequency is almost irrelevant as the sound of music in any venue will depend entirely on the sound characteristics of that venue. And every ve... | |
| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? I do believe that there are other more important elements to your sound than a flat frequency response. Yes, boomy bass or harsh top-end is intolerable, but I would put soundstage, timing, coherence, dynamics, and musicality way above a flat freq... | |
| Cables to settle brightness @bondmanp - are you sure it is not the Denafrips dac - was this in your old digital chain that sounded better? It is unlikely a streamer nor cables that will cause harshness in the top end whereas a DAC can easily be the cause. Having said tha... | |
| Which ones should I choose? Tannoy Kensington Gr or B&W 804 D4 @stevevn - a Naim 552/250 pre/power was the amp. They sound more forward than your amp. I have massive bass problems in my small room (4m x 4.5m). The 804 was really the only decent speaker that worked well in the room without bass issues (till I... | |
| Which ones should I choose? Tannoy Kensington Gr or B&W 804 D4 I have heard both and own the B&W. It is impossible to answer as the speakers are so different. However you should get a good idea auditioning at different dealers simply because they sound so different. Personally I much prefer the B&W. ... |