ghasley
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| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @ptss did you make a purchase based on someone else’s words or are you just bothered by someone else’s words. I don’t know anyone who did make a purchase based on MQA being present although I’m certain there is a long line of Meridien owners who m... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @ptss On the dac end of things, MQA is simply the unfolding of their compression technique in order to feed its reconstructed pcm signal to a given dac’s pre-existing pcm dac. My dac has it however I have never “heard” a MQA track. I can underst... | |
| KT 88 with Leben cs 600 The 600x ships with el34’s or 5881’s. I prefer these two varietals. Ive listened to kt77’s and some prefer them… | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @ptss When you demo’d multiple MQA recordings vs th 16/44 versions did they all sound better/worse/the same to you? | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. @ghdprentice How does one bias the tubes in the I50? Is it user performed or take it back to the dealer? | |
| KT 88 with Leben cs 600 @mdrone Plate voltage on the Kt88 is dealers choice. With the switch in the “up” position the KT88’s will be slightly more resolute. With the switch in the “down” position, the KT88’s will be slightly softer. You may or may not notice much differe... | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. @pennfootball71 if you want a decent integrated amplifier, you need a budget of at least 10-20 grand. I’m sorry anything under that your getting av receiver Best Buy level parts. Respectully, the above statement is untrue. Certainly there are... | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. Perhaps a Sugden? Phono stage, no tubes but you would never guess there isnt a tube in there somewhere. | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice Hi @mclinnguy , I hope you are well! I go from router to a Network Acoustics Rubicon Switch, Audioquest Vodka ethernet cable to Grimm MU1, Shunyata Sigma V2 AES cable to DCS Bartok Apex. I also have another Vodka ethernet from switch to Bartok... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice @zpatenaude37 Perhaps you might check out the Grimm MU1 (disclosure: I’ve onwed one for 2+ years). With the introduction of the MU2 (MU1 with inboard dac) a few preowned MU1’s have popped up for sale. At the time of my purchase I compared with o... | |
| Holo Audio May KTE vs DCS Rossini Player / Clock @rooze Seek out the opportunity to hear the Apex upgrades...stunning. | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision @soix Someone above mentioned the yellow board was the old board so perhaps the brown board is the new one? The brownish/yellowish board was the first Ref5se and the green board was the later version. I've owned both and there was no discerni... | |
| Integrateds: Luxman vs. Ayre? @erik_squires Ive heard the 507ux (but not the II version) as well as the Ayre ex-8 2.0. They are both exceptional amplifiers and you can’t go wrong with either one. Below are my opinions, which are completely worthless because it all depends on... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @tonywinga To further refine: if two tress fall, one after the other, and with the first one you had an ethernet filter in your pocket and the second one you did not and yet, they soundeded identical….well, then the filter makes no discernable d... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ Digital transmission (external to a chip) is typically an analog waveform which “simulates” the ones and zeros over a cable. Most believe it is either a one or a zero but the fact is the analog waveform is a voltage approximation (the better the a... |