Recent content by Vincent Kars

As you need a UPnP enabled renderer, have a look at WiiM or EverSolo

The PX8 is a Bluetooth headphone supporting APTX Adaptive. Get a Bluetooth transmitter supporting the same codec and connect it to a line out of the Pioneer VSA-LX805

IMHO a box that colors is simply not true to the recording and will never be. Its coloration might enhance a bad recording but at the same time spoil a good recording. That is the problem with one trick horses, they color all the time, needed or not. Better get something neutral and use DSP if...

CD-S300 is from 2009 R-N600A is from 2023 I expect the R-N600A to have the better DAC, simply less distortion, lower noise floor, etc. as DAC technology improved over time.

Manual says output impedance of the phones is 220 Ohm. A damping ratio of 8 is recommended as a bare minimum. So you need a 1760 Ohm headphone impedance? Manual also says >500 mV into 8 Ohm. If the impedance drops, the voltage drops too???? Wonder if this manual is correct and if it is, you...

An easy one. If there is a house sound, it is not true to the recording. Don't buy it.

You might try WiiM. One unit converting the analog input to digital and send it over the wifi to the second unit

Standards like S/PDIF specifies a 75 Ohm impedance. Don't mistakes this for DC resistance. Hence you can use a S/PDIF cable as an analog interconnect without any issues. In principe you shouldn't do the reverse but in practice a "analog " interconnect will do as a S/PDIF cable if the length is...

R2R often has a substantial amount of distortion. The solution is to call this coloration "musical" e voila, marketing problem solved. However the Ares 2 performs surprisingly good. So good it makes you wonder if is musical at all...

I prefer a true woofer

You might wonder if it make sense to use an external DAC. The manual says when playing using the analog 3.5 mm connection: Why must it be powered? Very likely the analog input is converted to digital again. DSP like ANC, EQ, etc. is applied following by a conversion to analog to feed into the...

https://keith-snook.info/riaa-stuff/Lipshitz%20AES.pdf

Maybe you can find the article mentioned below but 1979 is before internet.....

What about Fidler? https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/michael-fidler-spartan-20-phono-stage-review.61993/

A bit like the great British motorcycles?