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That is a huge advantage for MC then. I understand. Is it measurable? Signal to pops and clicks ratio, I mean. Thanks

Thanks for the review. I will never understand why people prefer MC over MM. Don't all these measured Phono stages perform better with MM? Don't we want better SINAD at all times? There is some gap in my knowledge or I am missing something surely.

8K will become mainstream one day, but I agree, not for long. Immersive audio will never become mainstream. It seems, in this digital domain, that the more resolution and more audio channels develop, it takes longer to take hold. Many people still enjoy 1080p and don't think 4K brings much to...

Would you say that the look of the equipment might have something to do with it? Most Conrad Johnson devices are in gold colour. Just Google Conrad johnson images and the whole page is populated by golden colour devices.

This is the first time I heard this song and to say I was deeply moved would be an understatement of the year. Unfortunately, we lost our dog the day before yesterday and to come across this song... I just didn't expect it. I thank you for this.

I think we are beating a dead horse now. Enough with my joke. Who gets it, gets it, who doesn't, doesn't and all is ok. Main thing is that OP has learned one of two things: Either that burn in of audio equipment is not real and he goes exploring ASR and finding ways to enhance his music...

Exactly! I would add medical field. Especially the diagnostic. It could mean life or death if we could improve the ultrasound or X-ray image by simply upgrading a cable. If that were true, then the price of cable could cost more than the machine and it would still be justified.

Why would balanced output have to have higher distortion then unbalanced? I am not aware of this. The only differences between balanced and unbalanced signal is that balanced will be 6 db louder and it rejects common-made noise. No other property is different. Frequency response remains the...

No, I haven't but I just read about it. Thanks. I still think I don't need emoticon for the absurdity I wrote. Emoticon would strip it of ambiguity. Besides, I am not sure I support this Poe's Law... it is the enemy of creativity IMHO...

I am very much against emoticons. If I need them, then it means my joke failed... or is it a joke?

First of all, that is not a proper burn in technique for transports. You can't just leave the player playing random music because there could be serious consequences. Let's just hope your player isn't ruined. You need to prepare music material in advance and you have to do it in order. Before...

I agree and level matched, in Marantz pure direct mode or similar, they would sound the same. But OP wants to listen the way he wants to and we are not helping with suggestions that external amp is superfluous. So, what you need, and have done so, is to find the amp or preamp with home theater...

Wouldn't it then be AD-DA? If it is just DAC, I am afraid it is just for audiophiles and SINAD chasers. I could be wrong.

Say you have two devices that measurements show exactly the same performance. If you don't know the price, they are rated the same measurement's vise. Take median if you like or audibility level or you could argue any other aspect. But then you find out the price of two devices and one is 5x...

The point is to rate the device performance, not it's worth! I even believe that the price information pollutes the rating, because the perofrmance is objective, but worth is not.

It could be quantified and in other videos, Rick Beato does talk about it: 1. Repetition is more prevalent now then before. It has been shown in research that if you have more repetition in a song it is more likely to be more popular, catchy on the first listening. Now, the problem is that...

I have no doubt that you can make great solutions using ceramics in a way you described, but does this look like any high end application of ceramics and materials? No, it does not. You say, if it is ugly, put a curtain over it. Really? Why make something ugly in the first place? Function over...

I don't know about today's heavy metal, but in the 80s and 90s most metal bands that I listened to, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Metallica etc. had no bass in their recordings or very little of it. Mostly you hear fusion of rhythm guitars with electric bass. Kick drum was never very deep like with...

Awful looking. And it would be so resonant.... What a bad idea.

Thanks for taking the time to explain, but I am afraid I still don't get it. Isn't Fosi Sk02 48 Hz sample rate distortion over 0.1 % around 7 KHz? While Bricasti 48 Hz distortion is 0.003 % around the same 7 Khz. Both graphs show 20 to 20000 Hz. And ok, while 192 KHz (You wrote 92 KHz, and I...