Isolation is key to reduce/eliminate noise. The streaming hardware and associated processors along with all the switching noise are isolated...
Don’t think so. The dacs I have are not popular here so any comparison would not be meaningful to people here. I may write my impression if I ever...
I ended up buying another unit to use as CDP. The second ET3 is connected to a digital converter that converts AES to Playback Link (ST fiber) and...
I believe studios use rack mount version of Weiss dac 1. Sounds fantastic (only heard prior version) and looks utilitarian. I have a suspicion...
Typical audiophile would almost never go for Weiss because they are all D/S chip + opamp output. You ask some WBF guys to pay $22k for a dac with...
Seeing Weiss is a hit, may I suggest another seemingly horrid and budget D/S dac that actually sounds musical and dynamic with reasonably good...
PMed.
I had few weeks to compare Pietus Maximus amplifier against many of its contemporaries and past designs. The amplifiers in comparison were the...
I am finding Grados sound the best on HIGH gain - better to my ears than mid and low gain. I always try to use the setting with the least amount...
How do they compare to HP1/2?
Oh…that changes things.
I can give my 2c on the Multibit DAC. The dac sounds "digital", diffused, grainy, lacking macro and micro dynamics, lacking resolution, soundstage...
Both new units and same chain. Unit variation is not anything new with cans.
“The funky thing that I mentioned (subjective): HD600S2 has more edge or is more prickly than either” This was my experience as well. Unit...
I found the best use for ET3 is using it as a streamer using mconnect and separate network DLNA server or Qobuz/Tidal. For my use case (Emm Labs)...
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