Recent content by mikkoV

You are right, if it truly improves quality I could even consider buying it. But first I wanna read reviews and opinions about pros/cons. It would be nice to hear it myself but unfortunately I guess I wont get opportunity for that.

Sorry for typo, I meant upsampling. So you and chord meaning that upsampling is better option than bit perfect? Hard to believe that's how it is. While I read forums, I can see that some people prefer using it and some are saying that in decreases sound quality and rather wanna keep things...

Bit perfect audio by the short signal paths with minimal wiring. I thought that's on the goal list of all audiophiles but hype about new 3500£ Chord Hugo M Scaler is trying to prove me wrong. As I have understood, upscaling lowers sound quality and if your files are lossy you cannot recover...

Hi, I bought Chord Hugo 2 recently and Im now planning which would be best cable for it money can buy. As I tried to google, Audioquest or Wireworld doesnt produce high end micro usb cables so the best ones I found were Curious Cables Hugo Link and Moon Audio Silver Dragon Usb Cable. I was...

Recommend to try Intona as well. Im planning to buy it cause many have said it to be maybe even better than usb regen. Usb regen and jitterbug combo sounds amazing but havent found solution how to make neither of them working with new usb c cables.

As I suspected, the high quality digital to analog conversion is the most important for the sound quality (after speakers). Cables don't matter that much. So high quality dac would make sense, no matter how you connect. I quess chord hugo would be the best choice when focusing transportable...

Thanks for answer. Yes we we're talking about lossless audio quality and I tried to say that example physical analog connection can be a lot safer with decent aux cable. Friend based his facts that cables just can't handle as much data safe, as even mobile networks are getting new 5g till 2020...

Stupid guestion as always, this time my friends thoughs. My friend says that wifi audio is always better than line in and it's truly lossless. I'm suspecting that's not true and audio quality can be better via line in if you have good enough dac. Isn't it true that audio quality example...

Interesting discussion. Now I understand things better. Ruark MR1 for example do have built in amp as they are active speakers but don't have built in dac so good extrernal dac is most important needed, maybe going to buy Chord Hugo. Anyway.. if sony hi-res players/astell&kern give more out of...

Sony describes high-resolution audio devices as those that deliver audio that’s clearer, sharper and more complex than other music sources and closer to the original. That sounds so unclear because naturally also 16 bit music can sound clear and have high fidelity. How can I get fact that Ruark...

You are right, I keep googling. I have red that hi-res music has higher dynamic range and so on and I have bought some 24 bit files and felt them enjoyable. You are saying audio system can't be hi-res, yes it just means the file. But I was talking about hi-res capable products. Even if hi-res...

I still don't get it that what makes system capable of playing hi-res music and what kind of things will ruin that capability. Few examples: You have portable hifi player and high end headphones (total cost >2000) but the headphones aren't "hi-res" VS cheap player with hi-res capable dac and...

Sorry for deficient explanation and bad english, I try to say things clearer. I was wondering the best sounding transportable stereo system that money can buy (not expecting that me or most have budget for that). I mean system that: -Has two speakers(stereo) -speakers must have battery...

It would be fascinating to find out what would be best possible portable music set up at the moment. Correct if you have idea what would better set up than this: -Files: dsd/hi-res/16 bit lossless -Source: Sony Xperia Z4 (hi-res tablet) / Apple Ipad air 2 / any good quality laptop...

I agree that volume differences is the most annoying thing at hi-res music. I have playlist that has plenty of 16 bit and 24 bit tracks mixed. I scanned all tracks per-file in foobar2000 and added replay gain trying to make all tracks sound equally loud. Result was that hi-res files were still...