Recent content by nodoubt

do all tube preamps have a bit of noise to them ? i just got a pretty well reviewed, fairly cheap, tube preamp, to warm up my sabre dac, and it produces a warm fuzzy hiss when its turned up half way or more. darn thing really has impressed me besides this though. it added some overall warmth...

ibuypower, mine has been a solid machine for close to 3 years caught it onsale for 1400 bucks i-7 5800k, 16 g ram, ss boot drive, 1 tb hd, gtx 980 card , etc etc can never even get this thing sweating 8 core- 16 thread aint no joke https://www.ibuypower.com/

lol ! you said that right old-timer... like i said, i tried the totally uncompressed flac setting in poweramp, 0% compression, and it is a wash at that point. with it at the recommended # 5 setting, like 30% compression, the diff is there for me, no matter what song, or how i listen to it...

hopefully mature as ill ever get. just turned 54. wish i could roll the clock back 20 years sometimes.

lol nahh! just been blessed, or cursed, with a good set of flappers i guess.:smile_phones: ive always heard stuff, even as a kid, most other people never heard. drives my gf crazy sometimes , tweaking my stereo, speakers , etc

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dont have to... everything ive a-b listened to sounds better on wav files, whatever the music is no headphones i should of state that. just a good hi-fi set up with a good dac. i did try a few at the max settings on flac, o% compression, and they are too close to call. guess ill do all of them...

lol ! too funny astro!

jbl 305s and call it a day... you wont find a better pair of speakers for 300 bucks trust me:wink:

i just got into this few months ago, and i cant for the life of me get my flac files to sound as good as my wav files. ripping in db poweramp sorry to bump this old of a thread, but it came up on google.