Well I'm interested. After this very thoughtful and informative post, I'd really like to hear more.

Thanks for the review, S1rrah,  took me a while to read it! very complete and full of info!

Wow, great thank you! I'm off to read your detailed review

Hi s1rrah,   Thanks for the all the usefull info you've provided so far. Really looking forward to your in-depth review and comparisons with Stockholm. I couldn't figure out from your photos and video, which flavor of 1704 is in the Pagoda? Thanks :)

Yeah, but at what price? and will it sound as good as a Padoga, which neither of us has heard?

For me, I buy most of my CDs in the 5 to 8 € range, which is like 6 to 10$. Sometimes takes some patience for prices to come down. I'd pay about as much for a CD quality download, in spite of having to do CD archival myself. CD quality is 4 to 5 times the bandwidth of mp3s by the way.  HD...

Okay. The good news is, the engine has exploded and we're all going to die.   Yeah but try your favorite guitar distortion on a really good, phase-correct DAC. Take Garbage for example. I mean the group. The seemingly low-fi suddenly takes on new meaning.

Warning - On-Topic and Long - Warning   Some more thought following BackToAnalog thoughts on Jason's thoughts. The problem with streaming is that it's licensing of music, not sale of music. You don't own anything except the right to listen as long as the company can keep its end of the...

  I think it's hardly fair to compare the price a fully assembled product to a kit. Would you assemble A.N. kits for free for anyone who asks here? Unless you consider that your time is worth nothing, then you need to factor in labor for things to become comparable.

Thanks staxfreak for posting these!  I didn't realize Charles had taken the page down... Not sure why he wouldn't leave at least the frequency and square wave response graphs for the Tera, I know I waited to see these before pulling the trigger back then ...

Nice

Straight from http://www.ponoworldtimes.com :   "Some big news - PONO headphones are coming, and that will be a big deal. They are not like any other earphones you may have tried or may now own. Your PONO phones will sound the best by far with a revolutionary feature never available in a...

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On the plus side, your cat is now color-coordinated with the Tera. On the minus side, the Tera's price has been multiplied by 4 since I got mine a couple years ago... Not sure what's up with that

Irrespective of Ragnarok's handling of speakers, I got curious about KEF LS50: a 85db sensitivity is indeed pretty low. However, the really important parameter to consider to evaluate if a speaker is an easy or difficult load (for any amp) is the impedance curve.   Both Soundstage Network and...

Oh yes.

You're supposed to reply: nope, and don't call me Shirley (ps no spring chicken around here) edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_rXO3wdUs

Surely, you're not calling me baby?

Oh good, a clue about the dac in the form of a coded message!

I suppose an algorithm could also simply use the content of the page (that you're reading) to adjust ads in real time, after all google is plugged everywhere in the web, if only as a web crawler.

Well, that explains the whole Oppo / Lexicon debacle around 2009-2010, where the same player essentially got certified only in its rebadged high-end, installer-provided, form... THX lost the respect of a lot of people on that one, by showing itself as little more than an extortion system (on...

Mikologism:   Ad nauseum: museum-quality nausea-inducing repetition.     (edited for clarity)

Cool !! I think the fact that we can quote someone directly but we loose what they were quoting is what creates the misunderstandings.... we'd need quotes embedded in quotes... (but then redundancies pile up)

Huh?     I'm calling Jason a tease because he's not telling us what their plans are for DAC implementation.   Maybe it's a problem with multiple quotes of different people? I'll try to use a clearer form then...