A3s just shipped! 

just ordered A3s!     

A3 or V6-S

  Hey just some advice for the future: converting all your existing files to lossless won't do you any good. If the music file has already been compressed, it has already "lost" the information one would retain by using a lossless format originally. You cannot decompress a file and get that...

K701s + Schiit Valhalla + what DAC? (not Bifrost..needs to be USB and I don't want to sink an extra $100 bucks into it just for a USB pathway...)

Quote: Cool beans. Thanks for your input. I think I'm gunna go ahead and get the M-Stage w/ USB DAC and use that with the K701s i will also be getting. If i had the cash, I would go for Bifrost + Valhalla, but hopefully that will come later. For now, the m-stage should do more than well...

Anyone here used the m-stage with USB DAC? Just wondering how good the DAC is....

About to pull the trigger on one of these combos for the K701s (my laptop as a source) 1) Matrix M-Stage w/ USB DAC 2 Schiit Valhalla + Schiit Modi (my wallet can't stand the blow from the Bifrost)   so...which one should i get?

Anyone know anything about the new-ish USB DAC combo version? As in, what chip it uses and how good it actually sounds...?

  Quote: ^ much better explanation   He already seemed confused, so I just gave him the watered down version for simplicity's sake    

  Quote:   dB (decibel) is the unit used to quantify sound levels relative to a 0dB reference. It's basically volume. SPL stands for Sound Pressure Level.  

Quote:   Ok great, thanks!

  Quote: Where did you buy the DAC/upgraded case version from? I can't seem to find out anywhere... and what chip is on that DAC?    sorry, I know this is the Q701 thread, I don't mean to distract y'all from its original purpose...

Ok so back to the point head injury made awhile back about recording and mastering being more important than bit rate or depth... what exactly goes on the process of "mastering" a recording? What's the general purpose?

Loving the back and forth going on. I just wish I understood half of what you guys are saying lol

  Quote:   Hahaha excellent point

  Quote: Ok that's pretty much what I was expecting.   Well thanks so much for the info. I really appreciate a supremus like you stopping by to inform a little head-fier like me 

  Quote: Oh it's not that I'm craving hi res files, it's more based on simple curiosity.    What you said about recording/mastering quality makes a lot of sense. So even then, the quality of music that is available to us is limited by how accurately that music is produced.    ...

Ok cool. So basically, we the consumers are limited to how hi res we can listen to our music based upon what resolutions record labels want to release their music at. That kinda sucks.   But then again, there may not be much of an audible difference anyway...   Salm0n, you mentioned...

  Quote: Yah, I understand. It's a very subjective subject and in my opinion, any benefits heard through higher bitrate files is probably placebo. But in any case, if CD's are only 16/44.1, what is the source of 24/96 and 24/192 files?    

Quote:   So where do 24/192 files originate from?   Mischa23v, thanks for info. It explains everything perfectly.

I can't find a straight answer anywhere. Does 24/192 refer to a specific file type or all file types? How do I make sure that I'm ripping 24/192 with EAC?    So confused!

So your goal is to hook the CD player up to the receiver? If you have RCA jacks for your phones, you could experiment with the outs on the CD player and see if you can get good sound out of either the front or surround (labeled in the second pic). Or even better, use the optical out. Im no...

Got my RoCoo P today! So excited. Because of some problems with shipping and getting my information,  HiSound included a pair of HiPhone 4 IEM's along with the PAA-1s that come standard with the RoCoo P.  Haven't had a chance to listen to them critically yet.   Anyways, I charged the...

Has anyone compared this/s:flo2 to the Rocoo P?