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it's about the revenue from music whether purchased on CD, digital download, or streaming No, the image explicitly states it's the combined revenue of the artists and the copyright holders (labels etc). It shows how much the people involved with the music itself are making, not the...

I have directly compared NOS and OS in a blind test on the same dac and found the difference to be significant. The idea that a reconstruction filter is worse than unfiltered PCM is subjective and I find your dismissal of people preferences in a subjective hobby to be extremely rude and...

Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Napster was released in 1999, Limewire in 2000, and Kazaa in 2001 and led to a significant drop in people purchasing music

it's extremely good filter on top of it's already great performance in other areas. btw that link doesn't seem to work, opening it takes me to a 404 page

and yet years later they didn't realise the threat from the internet that actually did end up damaging the industry irreparably

Sad that very few people know about this track. Wild bass stuff https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/gegcgeghecedchcohdhtdodtotot-2

My assumption would be that he is used to hearing natural timbre in a room and found that those "reference tubes" reproduced the timbre in a way that sounded natural and realistic to him which is often the praise tube amps get

I'd personally recommend the Chord Mojo for your use case. If you just need it to go back and forth between home and the office and you've already got something else to cover the journey I'd highly recommend the Mojo. Generally you're always going to get better performance out of a dedicated dac...

Remember to also open another terminal while that's open and run "sudo alsactl store" which will save those settings otherwise it will reset on reboot

measuring a tube amp (or any piece of audio equipment for that matter) just tells you what you're measuring and doesn't tell the whole story about the sound unless it's horrifically broken and getting like 3dB SINAD. They're worthwhile measurements don't get me wrong but judging a piece of gear...

I mean, it's not snake oil. It sounds very different which a lot of people prefer and are capable of doing NOS which is impossible with a DS dac

enjoying music is nonsense? Well, maybe if you're using Topping dacs since they're miserable experiences but this hobby is about the music and enjoying it

never heard of audiogon, I'm just enjoying the music I like though products I think sound good. Sorry if that hurt your feelings, I'll do my best not to offend you :)

ah, sorry, I wasn't aware, I'll edit it welp, since all my posts have been forced here for no real reason I'll say what I think on the topic. DAC measurements do not tell the whole story and have been cheated by incompetent designers at topping and similar companies (not all similar companies...

Personally I'd not recommend Qobuz, they've been caught lying about the quality of their files on more than one occasion. They served me MP3s re-encoded as 48kHz 24bit FLAC and upsampled the music of someone I know from 44.1kHz to 192kHz without their consent

there is no objectivity in this hobby, everyone is after a sound they prefer and there is no one best piece of gear for everyone, that's why we all use different gear. We can measure different aspects of gear but those measurements do not tell the whole story of the sound and will not tell you...

I'd highly recommend just going with local flac files. You're going to get far more quality, reliability and value for money by just using local files. Music streaming is extremely unreliable, expensive, and an album can disappear overnight and there's nothing you can do about it. With local...

it's a new Topping DAC. Topping products are generally terrible both in sound and quality and their support is terrible

Cables can make improvements even if there isn't a significant fault with the original

I mean they're hardly solved, there's lots of different ways to do dacs and they all sound different. If you're referring to the fact that topping and other companies like them are making dacs that measure really well that doesn't mean anything, Topping dacs are some of the worst I've ever...