Please review my first HiFi setup

[RandomEar]

Oh my. So your theory is if we want to hear music as the artist intended. We need to use oversampling, digital filtering, DSD Equalization and other digital processing. I see

I know enough about oversampling to know it alters the original wave form.

Dude, just read the post I linked. It explains everything with nice graphs and all and gives a clean example in which a waveform is perfectly reconstructed by a linear phase fast roll-off filter. You're simply wrong about oversampling and reconstruction filters. If you're not willing to learn, this may be the wrong forum for you.

Niche product. It’s not relevant something is embraced by the masses if that’s your reference point them McDonalds makes the best Hamburgers in the world.

My argument explained the higher price, your argument is illogical nonsense.

Woah. you said R2R DACs perform worse. Then a paragraph later you say ALL competently designed R2R and Sigma Delta sound identical. The “competently designed” kind of strikes me. If all DACs sound the same as you allege Then the competency of the designer and quality of the parts should not matter You are stating 3 contradictory things at the same time.

There's zero contradictions here. DACs can measure different and still sound the same. I never said anywhere that all DACs sound the same, you're just twisting my words.

So your saying your ears and brain can’t be trusted to distinguish between good sound and poor sound or Natural sound from artificial sound. Highly control testing in a lab is how you make the determination?

For devices which either sound almost the same or totally identical, yes you do need highly controlled testing if you want to get data with any reliability from listening tests. Using precise instruments like audio analyzers would be the far better choice, but some people insist on listening tests. If those are required, then at least do 'em right.

Also, this whole discussion is getting totally off-topic...

 

[Chrispy]

What an odd question. Brand/model of interconnects are important how?

Serious question. What brand and model. of interconnects do you use?

Why did you choose them? There has to be a reason

Thank you

 

[MaxxC]

What an odd question. Brand/model of interconnects are important how?

Those TDAI amps offer that.



That is the biggest bunch of BS I usually hear.
Maybe it is true in some cases, but the artist makes music and they are not generally sitting at the mixing console where the audio/mixing engineer is sitting.
And in many cases they have no input into the final mix.

I agree with you 100%. I was pointing out the irony of one post . Saying the best way to hear “music as the artist intended ”was to modify it digitally.

Artists seem to have zero creative control. There was an English group called The La’s who released one album in 1990. It went gold or platinum. The record company butchered it so bad. It sounded nothing like the original
recording and nothing like they intended. That was an exception then. I suspect it’s pretty much the norm

 

[MaxxC]

What an odd question. Brand/model of interconnects are important how?

That’s why I said it was a serious question Yes it seems to be very odd or stupid question. Brand and model name are irrelevant.

It’s hard to explain. It was a response to the supposition all interconnects , speaker wires and cables sound the same. Regardless of design or quality

 

[somebodyelse]

It’s hard to explain. It was a response to the supposition all interconnects , speaker wires and cables sound the same. Regardless of design or quality

There are some product combinations where it can make a difference, but it requires one or more design decisions to be far from normal. In the vast majority of systems changing cables won't make an audible difference in a properly controlled test - one where you only get to use your ears. Most people won't do that though, so will think they hear a difference for well known reasons unrelated to the actual sound.

 

[davidc]

Wow...this thread is getting way, way to deep for the original question. Far more important than all this littel stuff is room/speaker compensation. Get something with Audyssey or Dirac. THEN, consider everything else.

 

[Chrispy]

That’s why I said it was a serious question Yes it seems to be very odd or stupid question. Brand and model name are irrelevant.

It’s hard to explain. It was a response to the supposition all interconnects , speaker wires and cables sound the same. Regardless of design or quality

No, around here not a serious question. The supposition is the non-serious part. Design in what way? Quality in what way? Those two can matter, but not generally all that important.