soix
Responses from soix
| Cable Quality vs Customer Service I asked a well-known cable company if they would make ever headphone cables as it’s a growing market, and he said he did a few but that some of the connectors are so hard to work with he doesn’t promote it anymore. My takeaway from this is to stic... | |
| Cable curmudgeon I am not prepared to concede, as quite a number here have posited, that exflute's ears are good for playing in a professional orchestra but bad for hearing cable differences. I just can’t — it’s like trying to reason with a bag of hammers. | |
| Offline Music Storage & Playback Options I would reiterate that if it’s at all possible you should hardwire whatever streamer you use to your router. It will sound better and you won’t have to deal with any WiFi issues. | |
| Offline Music Storage & Playback Options I think an excellent-sounding and elegant option would be the Innuos Zen Mk3 server streamer. You can load all your CDs into it, and as a streamer your best sound quality would come from running an Ethernet cable direct from your router into the ... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Big +1 @newbee Bingo!!! I’ve played in a band for many years, and there’s very little from playing live music that translates to assessing individual components of an audio system. And I don’t care how good you think your ears are — being able to ... | |
| Cable curmudgeon I can’t overlook the fact that precious few manufacturers that I know of bother to include anything more than basic well made cables with their equipment. If it really made a difference wouldn’t you want to add a $1000 power cable to you $10,000 ... | |
| Cable curmudgeon @clearthinker Apparently your thinking isn’t as clear as you think as you completely missed the core point of my post, or maybe you just can’t understand it. Either way your comments are meaningless to me as you’re obviously clueless, which the mo... | |
| Changes to older system First and most obvious choice is cabling, but what? Actually, wires are the last thing I’d worry about here, but a lot has changed/improved over the past 30 years so I think a complete overhaul is in order. Start by identifying which speakers r... | |
| Need new headphone setup. I upgraded from my Dragonfly Red to a Singxer SA-1 Class A, fully-balanced amp (still fed by the Red as a DAC) and it was a huge improvement. Then I added a Musician Pegasus DAC that again took the sound to much a higher level, and now I’m waiting... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Having a good ear and being a musician won’t get you very far in terms of being able to identify and discern differences between audio components, and that includes cables. An analogy to your situation would be a very experienced driver who drive... | |
| Need new headphone setup. @rvpiano So how’s the new HeadFi rig working out for you? | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac2 L Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “tubelike” used in any Benchmark DAC review. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing because Benchmark DACs have other virtues, but it is what it is. Given what you’re looking for I’d take a hard look ... | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac2 L What improvements would you like to achieve, and what sound characteristics are most important to you? | |
| Want to upgrade from my Kef 104/2's All this depends on what improvements you’re looking for and what sound characteristics are most important to you. | |
| Sabrina X Anyone Add Subwoofer(s) If you're talking good 2 channel well then I'd have to disagree. That’s cool. How boring would this site be if everyone agreed all the time? I'm really not looking for more base as much as more authority and clarity. Well, you’re going to... |