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| Well ..This Is Interesting...What Do You Think.?? Food For Thought..Or BS? It's extremely interesting, but like pretty much every aspect of audio ignores the fact that absolutely none of the equipment we enjoy listening music and speech through makes any sound at all. Just as everything is invisible in the dark... suck t... | |
| Streaming resolution 24/44 or 24/48 for me. They are indiscernible. Any higher sample rates require harsher filters, and that has a negative impact on the ‘natural sound’ my system can produce in abundance. Node Nano - HHB CDR830 - Trio W-41 tube integrated - Rogers... | |
| Recommendations on a Warm Sounding DAC under $1100.00 Google this: why the HHB CDR830 makes such a good choice for a DAC unit. | |
| Who here continues to regularly use a CD player? My CDR is at the heart of my system. I rarely play any CDs though, I stream through it's DAC and also use passthrough monitoring for my TT because I can attenuate everything to the same level for my preamp tubes. No more changing volume for differ... | |
| Effective recommendations to add warmth & smoothness while keeping bass control I like the combination of a push pull class AB tube amp and sealed parallel subs and speakers. so no open ports. punch and warmth. | |
| Things that “blow your mind” Every time I look at a driver cone moving in and out, it blows my mind that this then somehow becomes music in my brain. I am a simple human. | |
| What does “musicality” really mean? My take on it is: how much emotion is conveyed. Music is ultimately in existence to convey human emotion. If a piece is recorded, produced, mastered and reproduced with the intended emotion fully intact, then all the electronics have done their jo... | |
| Your oldest gear? My Trio W-41 integrated tube amp is 62 years old. I refurbished it 6 years ago. My ears are 4 years younger. | |
| Thoughts on DAC option Once you have bought your latest heart’s desire, you could have a bit of fun for next to no expense.. Find a second hand Japanese made HHB CDR 830 Stick it in ’monitor’ mode and use the DAC in that. It’s 24bits of top end, all your ears will n... | |
| Do you consider preamp input gain control? That sound very interesting pindac. How about attenuation if a source is too hot like my phono stage output? | |
| Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc. Yes I do! Born out of a desire to experiment and restore on a budget... https://www.audiogon.com/systems/11941 | |
| Has it all been worth it? Only you can answer that as it's a singular perspective that we all have. For me, with my small budget, DIY speaker builds and skip rescued tube amp restoration, and repurposed 90s sampler as a DAC, it's been very 'worth it' ! Confirmed in full ... | |
| Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc. inna, It’s 20 watts per channel with 8 and 16ohm taps off some top class and quite substantial output transformers. I have built my own speakers: A pair of 15ohm LS3/5As from Falcon Acoustic kits, and to run in parallel with them, I converted a pa... | |
| Upgrading specific components in a tube amplifier Having overhauled a vintage tube amp from the chasis down, I would say the 3 most noticeable component improvements were the big smoothing caps, any old wax caps and the big one... tubes! It was obvious when it happened but it took me 4 years t... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? I use a modified and expanded Yamaha A3000 sampler I bought in 1997 as a DAC because it is simply the best sounding piece digital conversion kit I have ever heard... A sampler is after all; a DAC on steroids. |