GUTB gonna GUTB

Sure ...

• Chord Mojo
• Auralic Vega
• PS Audio DirectStream Junior

And likely adding a Kitsune/Holo Audio "Spring" Level 3 for the raw entertainment value of it shortly.

Would you like to list your catalog of NATIVE (i.e. never been through a PCM conversion step) DSD recordings?

 

Might as well make a copy of your respective bank account positions, short of dick pics. You'd both save time and frustration.

 

Willing to bet I have more original versions of just Beethoven's 6th symphony performances on vinyl than the guy-under-the-bridge has total DSD recordings. Between different venues, conductors, orchestra, recording AND mastering engineers, I have to have at least 40 (which is, incidentally, how one gets to 12,000 or so albums of worthwhile music).

And yes, that's my single, stand-out, favorite composition of all time. I might choose Mahler, or Wagner or Mozart more often from a general listening perspective, and if I had to listen to just one composer forever, it'd be Mozart (with some Salieri snuck in for good measure), but "big B's" 6th is my all-time favorite.

 

Stepping out of this thread for now; @frenchbat makes it clear that it is devolving into little more than a willy-waving exercise.

If I'm going to go on a willy-waving extravaganza, there are lots of places in Seattle where that would be a lot more rewarding than here (as much as I "love" you weird bleedas ... well ... some of you ... well ... one of you ... maybe ...) ...

Looking forward to @GUTB list of native DSD recordings ... otherwise, see you in other threads!

 

And favorite recording of Big B's 6th?

 

Damn ... that's a hard one ... so many good choices ...

I'll say, off the bat, that I'm a big Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic fan

But ... well ... in this case, probably Carlos Kleiber conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra.

Probably a bit alien to hardcore Karajan fan, tempo/cadence/pace will almost certainly seem off, and a definite departure from more, well, classical portrayals (e.g. Bruno Walter), but you asked for my favorite and, this would be that.

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Edit: If you read music, and do some research, Carlos' version is probably closer to B's original intent.

 

Of course ... now I have to ask ... what's yours?

 

I'm afraid that's going to be a dead end street . I've not paid much attention to classical until recently, the extent of it was buying "Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium", a 20 disc set about 15 years ago with some vague intention of developing some 'class'. I listen to a wide range of other music but classical for some reason just never got traction. Then recently I bought a pair of IEMs that were better than the shit that came with my phone and popped on Vivaldi's Four Seasons to see what that sounded like. For the first time I could hear the technical prowess of the 1st Violin and started to 'get' it.

So it's a new journey for me, and one that I'm happy to be starting out on...creeping towards 50 it's refreshing to have something new and unexplored to get into.

 

I think it is someone who got thrown out of Computer Audiophile for being just too crazy.

Actually, I think it is hands off fire-raising. You know, the arsonists who set stuff alight just for the "fun" of seeing the flames and watching the firemen at work. Mentally sick. Now it can be done by writing idiocy on the internet and just waiting until someone tries it.

Virgin copper. Never mind that, leave out the copper, just use the virgin. I suppose male bits fit fuseholders better than female bits. I hasten to stress I suppose, because no, I have never tried it.

Exploding heads. Maybe the guy enjoys them as much as burning buildings.

Jason always says that encouraging people to open the box just means law suits and dead companies. Now I see what he means.

 

THIS. Thank you.

I wince at the phrase "audiophile recording". If the first thing you talk about is the quality of the recording rather than the music, you may well be someone who likes to always listen to the equipment rather than the music. There's only so much xylophone-heavy "Jazz At The Pawn Shop"-style lift music that one person can stand.

Obviously, it's fantastic to have first-rate recordings, but I am enough of a heathen to prefer well-recorded music that's actually interesting. Otherwise, it feels a bit like choosing a restaurant on the basis of the quality of the plates, rather than the food.

End of rant

 

That kind of stuff where you can hear every movement of the double-bass string as the bow is moved across it?

 

Sorry, widely reported to equal or beat the Yggdrasil? Other than one ot two guys in Whatbestforums (also has the same nick on head-fi), no one does. As the one who have spent good amount of time with Gustard X20u and Gungnir Multibit, I strongly disagree that kind of opinion. Gustard have big sound, big soundstage, decent tone, not offensive like some lesser ES9018 DAC but when comes to high treble, the Sabre sound is there. It also has good macrodetails and with the sharp transient, the details can flood excessively to you. So, I can see the guys in whatbestforums like it. But it really sucks at real microdetails and can't produce properly real timbre of instrument. In test with some classical music, all instruments (especially brass and woodwind instrument) are rendered by Gustard sound like each other, and what you hear is only kind of electronic instrument. Compare to that, even in the most complex passage, Gungnir Multibit always produces accurate timbre of real instruments. Considering that the purpose of DAC is reproducing the sound who is closest to the real life, Gustard X20U for me failed miserably here. And I think you should go to live concert frequently, hear the real instrument, and choose DAC based on your real taste rather than blindly fall to hypes and some random unproven "knowledge" in Internet

P/S: The Gustard X20 is not mine. It owned by my friend, who believed in the hype in whatbestforums and bought it blindly. After 3 weeks, he couldn't cope with that poor timbre rendering anymore and sold it.

 

Only post yet that seems more real than surreal.

 

Is that the first gen Mjolnir?

 

If people can't resist responding, that's our problem. An unanswered thread is a forgotten-in-24-hours thread.

 

Interesting tidbit: "Mjol" is basically flour in old norse. "Mjol-nir" is what you do when you crush grain into flour. But it's not meant literally so the translation is more like "crusher" or "grinder".

 

Well, since you're moving on I won't obnoxiously continue to go after your suspect DSD experience. It's not like you actually care about learning about the truth of the matter anyway.

Let's be honest here -- I know that my treatment here is basically a continuation of Reddit. Many poor objectivists hated having it pointed out that their mass-consumer plastic junk is lo-fi, and my "fans" on Reddit continue that here.

Do you appreciate the irony of attacking my lack of experience with the Yggdrasil using your lack of experience with both the Yggdrasil and X20?

I don't have any experience with Yggdrasil, which is why I never claimed to and instead pointed out that it was "wildly reported".

 

Please see the words in bold. it is not your experience he was disputing.

 

OK GUTB, empathy was yesterday,
today you are just a troll. This is clearly about you and not the equipment, this would be the same if we were talking about a license for your pet fish, Eric. Go back to Reddit.