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The Wadax Studio Player is showing the way towards a more reasonable (???) cost for a digital processor that doesn't mess up the SQ ... but no guarantees! The whole system has to be thoroughly debugged for it present a clean rendition of a more complex recording - and the following is an example:

 

When the going gets 'robust', at about 2/3rds of the way through, onward ... it's heavy going! It becomes a endurance test; the system in the video has issues, and having a top notch DAC, etc, in the chain is not saving it ...

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 Latest audio show in Munich shows how far we've come in a few years - plenty of clips on YouTube demonstrating very good qualities in the sound able to be conjured up, with 'better' gear. This one stood out,

In particular, this points out why I laugh when people say you need a surround system to get an immersive experience ... the clip makes it obvious how the sound "fills the room", from just two, miserable speakers, 😄. This is how it works - with capable replay ...

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And, on the other end, good, competent SQ ...

Can't hear a thing wrong, here.

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Oh, dear ... the gear used ticks the boxes, but, the sound?!! An example of where just buying the right stuff doesn't guarantee a good outcome ...

Yes, some aspects are good - but I couldn't live with what this is producing, 😑.

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 Recorded by a What's Best Forum owner,

So much right here ... sense of the acoustic, space, tone ...

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 Just saw this clip being "reviewed" elsewhere,

 

 

Umm, no. The 'smell' of the playback chain is too severe - all I can hear are all the obvious giveaways that this is a hifi system in operation; whether it's vinyl or streaming are, for me, irrelevant - because the signature of the rest of the playback rig is too much in my face ... and I no longer care what the source is, for the examples ...

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https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/visit-to-mike-lavignes-house.1196092/

 

Yes, just another thread talking of what it's like with a rig where the owner has done everything that he's comfortable with to achieve best sound ... the interesting bit for me is the comment of how vinyl compared to digital, where commensurate efforts are made:

The result is more or less same.

Yes. Accurate replay provides an almost identical view onto the captured event, between different source media ... why? Because, the 'coloration' of the mechanism used to store the data becomes invisible; your ears "hear through" the 'distortions' of the playback chain - and you connect to the event that was captured; that is what is uppermost in the experience.