Yomanze
Senior Member

Some people are more old school and prefer phone, no big deal, chill out and get on the blower. Snapchat is a popular form of communication too, but...

He he he, or: 'are you sure that your Isobariks are set up properly? No one really knows how...' I've heard crazy things like 'if you move them,...

No excuse. BBQ in the street if you have to. ;)

The St. Agur cream cheese spread, on water crackers. Insane.

He he, same with Dolly Parton's Jolene, the 45 sounds great at 33.3. :)

Hi Colin, a shame, get well soon. Should boredom get the better of you and you want to start producing again, don’t worry about a company, a website,...

Yup, especially new vinyl, which is clearly digitally mastered, indeed remastered in a lot of cases.

Yes I can hear 20kHz, it’s not exactly a tone I hear though, more like a presence. It’s there though... Also, don’t forget that a NOS DAC will...

Interesting because for me a TDA1543 can have quite violent dynamics and drive, at the expense of sophistication at the top end compared to a...

Yes. I used to do blind tests with my DAC in NOS vs 2x oversampling (88.2 kHz) to correct the treble droop, which at 44.1kHz is -3.2dB at 20kHz. The...

Ah, my old DAC, very natural sounding, makes digital sound like analogue - no mean feat!

With optical, the incoming clock signal needs to be extracted from the datastream, of which things like cleaning up jitter is DAC dependent, and the...

Clever yet elegantly simple design, looks like treble diffraction issues and time alignment are well taken care of, which is rare. Also, those...

What DAC / USB front end are you using?

No issues at all with a 5M length of USB cable. Lindy do properly specced ones for not much money. :)

...or if your DAC already has a well-sorted USB front-end, use USB.

If you have a galvanically isolated, asynchronous USB connection, then it'll spank optical. Otherwise, things can be more variable, so try both. ...

There is something very musical about a well-designed, simple 2 way. :)

Glad that the results are improving. Set up right computers / USB beat CD transports IMO. I agree with Gaz, have always gotten the best results...

Any joy?

Yes, a good point. :P

Pretty sure you’d be able to buy a cheap A/D converter and use something like Audacity to achieve pretty much the same thing...

I’ve also noticed some sort of weird ‘detached’ nature to having separate amps for woofers and tweeters. I find one amp per channel more cohesive....

Best thing to do would be install Foobar2000 and follow this guide: http://newarchive.cambridgeaudio.com/media/windows_7_wasapi_setup-1353494368.pdf

I would get a Lindy cable, as they are guaranteed to be properly in spec and are very cheap compared to ‘audiophile’ cables. Also, is your...

I have a feeling that USB would sound a tad more open than TOSLINK, only one way to find out. And yes it’s the older Hugo and 2Qute that were not...

He he and I believe you, components such as capacitors can take a while to ‘form’, and indeed, my HiFi is a little touch brighter cold, maybe needs...

Without a doubt, this is a big part of it, adjusting to the new presentation. People mistake this as component burn-in all the time.

The amplifier is obviously the 'heart' of the system because this is what 'pumps' the required power out of the signal (the blood) into the speakers...

...it won't up the SQ. If you are concerned about SQ, then what is way more important is that the DAC is galvanically isolated, and if you're...