Thanks! It has moved up in my upgrade list already.
We added some more tracks for your listening pleasure!
So much music⊠so little time.
[Open Qobuz 21]
On October 16, 1976 this song hit number one on the Billboard charts, and I had tears in my eyes. As a matter of fact every time I hear this song I have tears in my eyes.
Never before did a song have such an incredible beat!
Listening to this song through the MKII and BACCH is the epitome of true Audiophile music.
It is âdy-no-miteâ, and if you donât like it âup your nose with a rubber hoseâ!
Enjoy,
Steve08226
4/1/23
Exceptional!
Just looked up Flash of Light c/o RoonâŠ
I have this single (Tidal 24 bit FLAC version) thumping over the lowly iMac speakers as I type this.
First impressions are great and I get a distinct big-stage, live Talking Heads performance vibe.
Fun, energetic stuff (even sans BACCH hardware and software)âŠ
Thanks for the tip, Al. One of my favorite things about this forum is I am always getting exposed to new (to me, at least) music and artists here. (Her debut album was way back in 2005 â who knew?)
Cheers.
Slightly off topic, but something perhaps worth considering. I donât have Bacch yet, but when I had Qobuz (in another system I set up away from home) I found that like in my main system, flac sounded nowhere near as lifelike as WAV files. This was the case with the MKI/BII and now with the MK II via usb as well, and the small system based on a Hegel H190. What I found with that system was that by setting bubble upnp to decode on the fly to WAV, sounded much better than sending the flac stream to the Hegel.
To my ear, in my system, flac sounds like very good Hifi, while pre-converting the files to wav sounds like the musicians are in the room. I thought perhaps it was unique to the MKI/BII, but hearing the same thing with the MKII via usb confirms it for me.
I have been re-ripping everything to AIFF. Anything new is purchased or ripped to AIFF.
I am just doing it and donât have much of an opinion about it or any concern one way or another. For my portable devices I stick to FLAC so I can have more music.
I also (long ago) settled on AIFF as the best general, all-around lossless format. It allows for all the meta-data and does not take up as much room as WAV. At the time, its compatibility with Appleâs (iTunes) default format was also convenient as I incorporated all of the music my wife and kids had accumulated via iTunes.
I have never noticed a difference in sound among and between the lossless formats for âCD-resolutionâ files.
FWIW.
Your Daughter has wonderful taste⊠itâs added
She really surprised me.that was her first song choice. It was just ripping the trumpet set at normal Bachh listening level at 12 watt peaks. . Towards the end of night I played her Edgarâs Binaural demo tracks. The cringe look when Dr Chesky whispers into her left ear was priceles as was the look of disbelief with the counting track.
With BACCH4MAC intro Dr Chesky whisper is about 12" away from the ear. Iâve been told w/ Audiophile itâs in the ear?
Yes that has been my experience using head tracker she turned to get away and it followed her really freaking her out. Her head transfer function was more flat than mine too. It really changes based on ear shape and height.
I noticed my in room images really jumped forward and separations incresed with DSMK2 3.5.1 and Antero208 firmware. Did you upgrade yet?
OMG, no we didnât!
Can we upgrade via Ethernet yet?
We only see v2.5.1 on line