Baltimore MD area. B&M here was Soundscape on Cold Spring Ave. They've been around these parts longer than me.
Fun at the local B&M
For the first time in awhile I managed a few hours at one of the long standing local B&M shops yesterday just to look around and hear a few new things.
Armed with imy new IPhone 6s I spent an hour or so auditioning a few things using my home music library streaming at high resolution via Plex as the source. What a great way to audition new gear remotely!
This is was first time I've used the IPhone analog output with a high res digital source to audiog gear. It was great. Sound was top notch and I was able to audition using any of over 2000 CDs on my music server back home.
I spent most of of my time auditioning new speaker models mostly from B&W and Monitor Audio. Both lines sounded very good! I did not have time to hear the top of the line models but what I did hear impressed me for the cost. My iPhone actually sounded better than a fairly recent vintage Denon CD player that we tried as well.
I reached the conclusion that portable devices like newer IPhones make viable sources for a quality system when the software and source material resolution is up to the task as well.
Armed with imy new IPhone 6s I spent an hour or so auditioning a few things using my home music library streaming at high resolution via Plex as the source. What a great way to audition new gear remotely!
This is was first time I've used the IPhone analog output with a high res digital source to audiog gear. It was great. Sound was top notch and I was able to audition using any of over 2000 CDs on my music server back home.
I spent most of of my time auditioning new speaker models mostly from B&W and Monitor Audio. Both lines sounded very good! I did not have time to hear the top of the line models but what I did hear impressed me for the cost. My iPhone actually sounded better than a fairly recent vintage Denon CD player that we tried as well.
I reached the conclusion that portable devices like newer IPhones make viable sources for a quality system when the software and source material resolution is up to the task as well.