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RE: IF you indeed end up with the HD-800 S....

Posted by John C. - Aussie (A) on August 27, 2017 at 16:10:07

In Reply to: IF you indeed end up with the HD-800 S.... posted by Ivan303 on August 27, 2017 at 11:39:45:

I'm surprised at the negative comments about the HD800 as, although not as smooth as the 800S, they sounded very good to me.

Forgive me, but I must hark back to a mantra I keep beating like a drum. Money spent on hi-end headphones might only reveal flaws about the input so will sound unacceptable. In particular I feel the DAC is critical, and have been surprised to learn this year that digital cable quality is also vital as it can be responsible for jitter. I hope to have avoided that by recabling (for balanced mode) with Canare DA206.

And I'm using an Auralic Aries streaming bridge between the Roon systyem and the YGGDRASIL DAC as it is reputed to have excellent jitter control.

As for the earlier query about Roon, no it is far from perfect but is generally better than the Meridian Sooloos system I came from. In many ways is is not as user friendly as the Sooloos system and is fundamentally no better at handling classical music meta data - they are all bad in that respect as they were set up for popular, not classical music so we get stupidites like showing Beethoven as the artist performing a work! If only.

What can be more subjective than music? It reflects our personal tastes and preferences.

Edits: 08/27/17

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