Recent content by Rodolfo

Perfect: my dear brother's name was Victor!

Welcome to the forum, germa! I have read and viewed some favorable reviews of the circumaural Fiio FT1 and am considering at least trialing them; and they are near your budget target and mine. BTW, I tried the Audio-Technica M50x years ago. I already had the Sony 7506s and found that the M50x...

I was a serious wired-only snob until a few years ago when a nephew asked me to try the LDAC-equipped headphones he used with his nice digital audio player. Well, today I find Bluetooth head and earphones very convenient and very satisfactory. I've used Sennheiser and Sony headphones for many...

I gather you meant music. It's stereo 2.0 for me, as it's been since I was 12, though for several years it's been through an integrated with A & B outputs. As a survey researcher, I suggest you always need an "Other" response category, optionally with a fill-in space. These days I actually am...

Agree, but still ideally in black for me: natural or piano black.

It is rather big if your sources have (superior) LDAC CODEC support and not... ;)

No. I might have considered them if they were LDAC-equipped.

Follow-up, not-as-great $40-bargain, same ~2017 year: My Technics RS-M240X cassette deck. I got the cassette bug that year because my brother and I found or dug out some cassettes, especially some LP-trans-whatever-they-were-called that my father had recorded for us, in the '60s, I think. The...

Google: no wonder... ;) I don't know of any caps on the "potential" of Bluetooth or any wireless sound. Readers may want to review the Wikipedia pages of the various Bluetooth hi-res-sound competitors (current ones only) to learn about -not search for- their capacities. LDAC was released in...

It depends on whether you have a good sense for what you want and how to shop for it. I don't have any experience with anything Marantz, but I do own and rely on a Sony CDP-CA9ES which I bought used to replace a (purchased-new) CA8ES that had lasted about 25-30 years. I have a good shop in town...

No iteration of aptX that I know of is "superior to LDAC", except perhaps "on (Qualcomm?) paper", though I have not read that anywhere. LDAC has been available for several years on most any Android device -phones, tablets, etc.- produced with Android 9 and later. Each android device has to be...

$40 for my Yamaha DV-S1800: it's been my dedicated SACD player for years. It was released in 2007, retailing at $449.95. It features four Burr-Brown 192/24 DACs. I bought mine in like-new condition, with its original remote and manual, from the original owner, in about 2017, and it still looks...

From the bright side on the moon, Linda Ronstadt with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, For Sentimental Reasons: Not sure the B&W setup is worthy, but it's been a check/demo for decades.

My Cyrus One integrated (and Mission 700s) just turned 40. I stopped wondering how long they and their aging components would last about 20 years ago. Of course, the superior componentry in its original design and manufacture explain the original and continuing performance.