radamel
Music Fiend
My wild guess is that the designer doesn't suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Mytek Brooklyn DAC
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My wild guess is that the designer doesn't suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Julf
Facts are our friends
Of course there is no such thing. You will never get *everybody* to agree on anything.
Remember the debate on evolution between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, where both were asked "What would cause you to change your mind?", and while Bill Nye answered "Evidence", Ken Ham answered "Nothing"?
The reason we do blind test is to prove things to *ourselves*.
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
Julf,
Bill's reply was OK, but I'm gonna give Haldane the point for awesomeness of response.
Joe
When asked what evidence would destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution the great biologist J.B.S Haldane replied, "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."
Bill's reply was OK, but I'm gonna give Haldane the point for awesomeness of response.
I've done blind tests several times and it's shown me that (a) my hearing isn't as amazing as I had thought and (b) since stuff isn't as different as I thought might as well buy the one I like the look of or whatever.
Joe
Julf
Facts are our friends
Yes, I have to agree, that is an awesome response (and I would assume that rabbit fossil would be the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
That was pretty much my personal conclusion too. It did make me question a fair bit of accepted audiophile folklore.
adamdea
You are not a sound quality evaluation device
Quite difficult to perform; but why worry about this when there are other comparatively easily performed tests of distortion levels, volume differences etc with experimentally determined detection thresholds?
radamel
Music Fiend
It could perhaps be an interesting experience for people who think that if they aren't able to clearly spot a difference in a double blind test it means that the difference doesn't exist or is very small.
If they still aren't able to spot a difference that they know exists that could help them better understand double blind tests.
vln
Shuns mooks. And MQA.
My thoughts precisely.
JTC, have you gotten round to try out some MQA recordings (as downloads, either from 2L or ECM, or whoever might offer them)?
Cheers,
Samuel.
jamesd
pfm Member
sorry, i'm sure this has been talked about plenty before, but I never had any interest in MQA until I purchased a device with the capability.
Do I have this right? MQA is similar to HDCD. I can purchase MQA albums and listen to them as if they were normal audio files, without MQA decoding? What I'm wondering is, if I purchase a handful of MQA album and MQA never takes off, those files are still useful/listenable?
Do I have this right? MQA is similar to HDCD. I can purchase MQA albums and listen to them as if they were normal audio files, without MQA decoding? What I'm wondering is, if I purchase a handful of MQA album and MQA never takes off, those files are still useful/listenable?
radamel
Music Fiend
Yes.
Timcat
pfm Member
My Brooklyn arrived from Mytek in Poland yesterday.
It was immediately better than my ailing MDAC (bulging capacitors), which shows that I was right to conclude that my MDAC is now junk (well a donor for an MDAC2 at some point in the future). After 2-3 hours the Brooklyn was pretty awesome. I think that it is already a lot better than the MDAC ever was; I am hearing things, like a singer's breath on a microphone, that I never heard with the MDAC, and the bass seems far better controlled than I remember from a young MDAC.
The Brooklyn is very detailed, not at all harsh and appears simply to be transparent. According to Mytek, it should continue to improve over the next few days, so things are looking good.
So far I have only used it in my digital system consisting of an Aries Mini feeding the Brooklyn via USB, Acoustic Imagery ATSAH 500 mono blocks (NCore NC500 based power amps interestingly these use switching power supplies, but lets not go back there!) and B&W 804D3s, so I dont know what the analogue input is like yet. I will find out at the weekend when I try the Brooklyn with my LP12 (with Ittok and Benz Micro Wood).
One thing I have noticed on the analogue front is that the digital volume control seems better (more detailed) than the analogue one, but this might change with use.
Oh, and I am currently using the internal PSU.
It was immediately better than my ailing MDAC (bulging capacitors), which shows that I was right to conclude that my MDAC is now junk (well a donor for an MDAC2 at some point in the future). After 2-3 hours the Brooklyn was pretty awesome. I think that it is already a lot better than the MDAC ever was; I am hearing things, like a singer's breath on a microphone, that I never heard with the MDAC, and the bass seems far better controlled than I remember from a young MDAC.
The Brooklyn is very detailed, not at all harsh and appears simply to be transparent. According to Mytek, it should continue to improve over the next few days, so things are looking good.
So far I have only used it in my digital system consisting of an Aries Mini feeding the Brooklyn via USB, Acoustic Imagery ATSAH 500 mono blocks (NCore NC500 based power amps interestingly these use switching power supplies, but lets not go back there!) and B&W 804D3s, so I dont know what the analogue input is like yet. I will find out at the weekend when I try the Brooklyn with my LP12 (with Ittok and Benz Micro Wood).
One thing I have noticed on the analogue front is that the digital volume control seems better (more detailed) than the analogue one, but this might change with use.
Oh, and I am currently using the internal PSU.
JTC
PFM Villager...
Hi Samuel, alas no, as I'm still a bit of a luddite using Logitech Media Server on my NAS drive and Squeezebox Touch. My understanding is that there's no support on that system for MQA. In fact, as I happen to be at home today, I've been spending the past hour and more re-installing LMS so that I can get the plug-ins to work properly and add DSD support. Nearly there.....
JTC
PFM Villager...
My thoughts exactly. I am loyal to the MDAC2 project, and will certainly get the MDAC2 board, but facing facts, the Brooklyn is in another league from even my modded MDAC L2 Toy, which was very good. I'd go as far as to say that it's a way ahead of (what I recall of my limited time with) the Auralic Vega, but that memory is a bit unreliable. What is for sure is that my system has NEVER sounded better. VERY impressed and although I was skeptical about spending that kind of money on a DAC, given that I could have waited for MDAC2, I have no regrets whatsoever.
JTC
PFM Villager...
I take it that for MQA to work, then, I need to have compatibility throughout the chain, i.e. in my case both Logitech Media Server AND my Squeezebox Touch would need to be in some way MQA-aware? Obviously the Brooklyn is, but I would not hold out much hope for LMS/SBT enhancements due to the fact it's now a legacy product....
