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As is just about every year. It is a mess. The world needs more surround channels about as much as Viagra commercials and feminine hygiene commercials. I may end up being a 2-channel person the rest of my life. I bought a pretty nice Rotel processor (no XLR) but never get around to hooking...

Yes, this is the same thing that I have found but the exceptions are a bit more frequent than occasional.

The reviews here in ASR indicate that there is a lot more value for the money in just using a phone as a DAP and if carefully chosen, the sound quality can be excellent. I purchased a Samsung that has a headphone output, however I don't think Samsung makes any with headphone output anymore. LG...

I have OLED at two locations in my home. However some areas in my home mandate smaller screen sizes because of limited space, so no OLED option. For example in one system I have a 32 inch QLED the works just fine.

For turntables, an ordinary (line level) analog input will not work, you need an input that is equipped with a phono preamplifier. So you would want to check whether or not the Pro version of the RME has phono preamplifier (phono stage) and whether the phono stage matches your cartridge (moving...

Yes, the RME has two digital inputs (coaxial and optical) in addition to the USB input. It does not have analog inputs unless you get the Pro model. But if someone has two computers that only output USB the D10s can be used as a workaround to get the second one fed to the RME.

The D10s has both analog and digital outputs and a USB input. If you are concerned about the RME having only one USB input, you can use the D10s to convert USB to coax and then use the coax input of the RME. You would never need to use the analog outputs of the D10s in such an arrangement, so...

Which it most often does.

Fantastic words.

I appreciate the efforts to conduct such a test, and I too would like to see more blind tests. I would be curious to know though, how this particular test would stack up against official protocols for testing by experts such as Floyd Toole and similar luminaries. One thing I picked up on is...

From a comment in the link that @Apesbrain provided: "The problem is that folk who are only exposed to lossy have that as an audio frame of reference." I have long suspected that "frame of reference" is an important consideration in audio that I haven't seen discussed very much. I think the...

I appreciate the info. I don't really tinker, I just listen on internet radios that can either handle the codec or not.

I have devices from the pro audio market that don't do FLAC. I use WAV to keep everything consistent, even so some of my devices can do FLAC.

Perhaps in my next version of the document, I could make it clear that size matters with bitrate when comparing lossless audio files, and that with lossy audio bitrate is only one of many considerations. I think @Killingbeans was hitting on that also.

Well I happen to own both a Rotel preamp and the RME; although I don't use them in the same system. You could use the RME in conjunction with a Topping D10s (inexpensive). The Topping accepts a PC input and then give you digital outputs (both coax and optical) that you could feed to the RME...