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| Quobuz subscription Why don't you name a track or two so folks can tell you if it's you or Qobuz that is the problem. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @rauliruegas I go regularly to concerts of un-amplified music. I don't regard that a home music system is good because "I like it." I regard it as good only to the extent that it reproduces acoustic music in real space as close as possible to ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm There are too many people who have heard this arm and say that it is terrific, to write off this arm. Just as in electronics, the ultimate test is your ears and not some measurement. This having been said, horizontal tracking angle error may be ... | |
| Advise on buying electronics out of-the country I believe I bought a $12,000 DAC from China for $3000. If the OP wants to pay the $12,000 it’s his privilege. I have purchased from Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and China over the years and have never paid a duty for shipment to me in the US. Many ye... | |
| Advise on buying electronics out of-the country I too have bought from all over the world without a problem. My last large purchases from overseas were DACs from what is now branded as Musetec, the latest being the Musetec 005. Much has been written about this DAC here on this board. It's be... | |
| Musetec Audio MH-DA005 ES9038 Pro x2 DAC VS the Lab12 dac1 reference Tube Hybrid Dac Notwithstanding my respect for @yyzsantabarbara I disagree and find the Musetec 005 neutral, though I agree with slightly smooth. In that regard it is unlike the conventional wisdom of DACs using an ESS chip. It is, though, very revealing of the d... | |
| SOTA Cosmos turntables Perhaps you should take this over to "Analog." | |
| VPI Scout 2 Tonearm What are you looking to gain with a different arm? Have you considered the dual pivot accessory for your present arm? | |
| DAC recommendations I'm glad you put "accurate" in quotations. If you want a piano to sound like a piano, you might consider the Musetec 005. There's been so much about it discussed here that I needn't elaborate. | |
| New Mercury Living Presence Mastering @rvpiano You might want to look here and here for openers For an audiophile board discussing classical music, you're in the wrong place. | |
| New Mercury Living Presence Mastering This was discussed extensively on another board at the time of release. The consensus IIRC is that they are indistinguishable from the original CD releases supervised by Thomas’ mother. As such it was considered a disappointment. However, there ma... | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? In the view of some of us it isn’t that measurements don’t make a difference in sound quality. It’s that sound quality is the ONLY important consideration. The designer/manufacturer of this DAC has produced several DACs over the past 12 years or ... | |
| Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind? @jc4659 I honestly hope its reliability is as good as its performance. The Musetec 005 has been out for about 4 years. It has been written about extensively by many owners during this time on two English language sites, one here with more th... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit I agree with you that the USB to I2S conversion is best made within the Musetec DAC. There it will find SOTA conversion and about as good a power supply as can be (and unique to this DAC), using a bank of super capacitors for the... | |
| Best Alignment Protractor? "'perfect theoretical alignment' to the scheme used by Mint" is, I'm afraid, an oxymoron. There is so much misunderstanding about setting up cartridges that is only enhanced by such statements. Mint probably uses one of the usual standards, Baer... |