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In Reply to: RE: I am curious posted by Frihed89 on February 05, 2017 at 00:42:09
I like 192/24. I'm sticking with it. Even though it's $20 a pop for albums I already have multiple copies of. It's the better product. Compared to a new $550 reel to reel tape I guess they are a screaming deal. Of course I'm only going to buy my favorite albums in this format, but I have taken some chances with new music.
Hope you get a chance to listen to the Totaldac. I would like to hear you impression of it. Is he going to bring it over to your place? Here's one thing you could do, if it's available buy your favorite recording in 192/24 to play on your friends Totaldac, whether at his place our yours. At least then you will hear it for yourself with a work you know well. Sometimes it's the not knowing. Take the CD too. Something recorded after 1970, maybe small ensemble, maybe with a male vocalist.
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I think he will bring it here. Either way, I will take your advice and pick up some high-res chamber music, if he doesn't have any. My Dacs only play 44.1/16. I didn't know the Totaldac could play higher resolutions. I'll ask him.
Thanks.
Frihed, I meant to add one more thing that may go to the heart of your question.I wrote in another post that I thought that SET amps and high efficiency speakers could easily render the better sound quality of hi-res digital, and I'm going to repeat it and expound on it here for us SET/HE guys.
Hi-res digital is simply one of the best sources I have ever heard for my stereo system. I do think that most if not all SET/HE aficionados could hear the difference. I think it's time for them to consider a new front end for their systems if they haven't tried this already.
To do it though you have to stick your toes into computer audio. For some of us that's easy, and for some the thought is unpleasant. I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be that hard. It can be as simple as buying a $250 PC tower from Best Buy, and connecting it to a DAC with a $15 Belkin USB cable. Install JRiver, load your CDs, download some hi-res,and off you go. Frihed's is a simple set up. There are turnkey solutions that are also easy in the $1,000 range that are very high end.
For anybody sitting on the fence I say give it a try. As a lifelong vinyl guy I can tell you the epiphany doesn't hit you until it's finished, and you look at your tablet and scroll down the hundreds and hundreds of albums on your server, and you realize it's all at you fingertips. It's a good feeling. Sounds great too.
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Edits: 02/11/17
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