Errrr. It depends on the speakers you listen to, the overall set up including wire, and the acoustic quality of the room and the coupling of the speakers to said room . With a great speaker system set and source it simply is no contest with imaging detail and realism and will crush any...

I played with the software based BAACH release 3 months ago . I really enjoyed it in the Senior Executive VP of the Los Angeles and Orange County audio society system . Forctruly resolving systems that are mostly single listener its benefits far outweighs its negatives. It’s still in his...

All true. I’m really not expressing what I meant. Perhaps treble boost and possibly because MQA does toss some of the higher inaudible frequencies that Can cause a cascade into the audible spectrum as they are sun and difference frequencies.. Those ultrasonics are removed and in a sense it’s...

Golden Ears here. My thoughts on MQA in part apply to voicing considerations. Every person who designs voices a particular piece of audio gear be it a codec, speaker cable, loudspeaker, or hardware component has voicing considerations. Sometimes it’s problematic. For instance let’s assume...

This is a 6 year old thread.   The only reason I am addig to it now is because I regularly get inquires as what is the best speaker for such and such a price point.- people figure out how to email me- even though I rarely check head-fi.   Since I started this thread  I have been to about 15...

I have an iPhone 6 + , and a CEntrance HiFi SKYN. Would someone try to determine if this noise is being created in the digital domain by hooking up a SKYN to an iPhone and then seeing if it makes noise? Thus would effectively remove the IPhone amplifier and DAC from the chain. then...

Oops,, I missed that other meet. I will reschedule mine in a new thread and cancel this one.

Moderator please add date June 27 9-4pm Laguna Beach to the thread title. For those of you who have already decided on their headphone choice but are still searching for the proper deck combination, or perhaps even a set of many monitors this is the meet for you. I hosted two other meets in...

Just swapped the date to May 9th, forgot about mothers day .

Purrin it would be great to see you, I didn't get to talk much at the Westin meet. You have to check out this La Voce DAC by Aqua from Italy , it lets you DAC roll by having modules you can snap in...pretty cool. Also a phase reversal switch for out of phase CDs and subsequently out of phase...

May 9th I did Head-Fi meets before... And everyone seemed to like them. I would like to do this one, and have. As a focus the ability to swap things in and out of systems to try to put together better stereos than you came with.. http://www.head-fi.org/t/518042/los-angeles-meet-10-16-10...

I design things, I break things, I learn how to design things to avoid parts failure. I have addressed design issues in snowboards and skateboards both the highest performing models costing 3 times more than an average top of the line consumer model. I have taken excellent performing designs...

I ordered a SKYN have the iPhone 6 plus I am hoping it won't be as long sticking out as shown with the iPhone 5 Having the DAC amp section detachable FROM THE BATTERY CASE ...would be simply amazing. My end ideal use for it will be for streaming from tidalhifi.com. Likely I will use some JH...

I don't think a lot of the goo high end gear is far from neutral at all. Over the past few years both high end tube pre-amps and solid state pre-amps are moving towards a more neutral middle ground.   I will say this... and I am sure it won't go down well. When I take an entire system of...

I happen to go against the audio grain of no EQ. I have had amazing results with parametric EQ with the digital programmable settings of analog filters used in McIntosh car audio.    I do wonder why there is not more parametric eq for  the homes. It is extremely rare to wander into anyones...

I also want to make sure that the room with the speakers is "livable" or you make an audio graveyard that seldom gets used.   I do hear very large differences with DACs. I have  tested the Wadia 171, aRcam RDAC, Lynx Studio Hilo DAC, Apogee Mini DAC, Apogee  Duet, Apogee Duet 2, Meridian...

According to that line of reasoning , there is no reason to buy a CD payer better than  midrange consumer Yamaha. Or perhaps that the Analog playback could be bested by a midrange Yamaha CD player. I do see your point from your perspective and accept it.   From my perspective.. A fair...

I only used analog master tape as it is generally accepted as being higher in the hierarchy of SQ...with of course "Live" at the top of the hierarchy . It is also easier to replay a master tape than to gather musicians.    So if you shoot  for an accomplish one goal... Say being able to make...

I haven't really preferred DSD. I like PCM better. I am male.   There are many reasons not to believe audiophiles. not  all audiophiles are chasing after the same aspects of sound reproduction. There are any "audiophile systems " that to my ears do not sound real.   When "Stereo review"...

Then I did not recall correctly. Sorry about that.   Sorry about the long post.   If you read the Phillips link.. you'll see that people were tinkering with 14 bit prior to 16 bit. no necessarily for the CD format though. Clearly... few people able to discern well between audio gear  given...

So many interesting and thoughtful comments.  I am slowly going through them.   I'm one of the weirdos that enjoys hi-end car (there are very very very few cars that qualify) , hi-end home audio (many good systems qualify) , hi-end headphones(very few systems qualify) , and gasp..even hi-end...

True as if someone with a bit rate issue  searched and  hit the old info it will also led them to this thread and they might find the solution is just a software or firmware update. ..good thinking. I nuked mine- but your quote is still up to lead them here.

Now that's great info. Much appreciated for the correction as I don't want spread any false info ever ..as that is totally counter productive to the whole purpose of these forums. ...I'm going to erase  my previous post.. (and this one of you nix yours like me to prevent "thread BLOAT" Thanks...

Note: edited due to updated info making this post currently  irrelevant.