Glad I could help you with Mendelssohn. It was reviewed in an old Stereophile and I sometimes use those reviews to be introduced to new music. I think I will start by contacting Meitner because my networking situation is so unusual, connecting directly to a fiber hub. Thank you for your help.
Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?
I have a good analogue front end. Not stratuspherically good but good enough for this comparison. VPI Prime Signature 21 turntable, Pass Labs XP-25 pono preamp, Pass Labs XP-30 preamp and Hovland Radia amp. It has a lovely, very involving sound. On the right recording, I just drop everythng and am drawn in to listen.
My streamer, on the other hand, is decent but not spectacular. It is better than my CD player, but it is not jaw-dropping like my analogue front-end. My question is this: does anyone have a high-end, tier-one streamer (dCS Bartok Apex, Lumin X2, or something like them) that can rival a good analogue system?
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Sounds good @audio-b-dog just keep an open mind… AT&T fiber comes into your house and into the router/hub they provided, correct? from that hub, you connected your TP Link Deco using Ethernet cable. That’s your gateway mesh node. It now broadcasts wifi to other mesh nodes. If you places your tp link nodes around the house, you should be able to test your wifi speed using something like ookla app on your phone or even just by typing speed test into google search. If you stand next to the mesh node that feeds the Meitner, what speed do you get on wifi? |
I doubt that my system would qualify as being extremely high-end, but my digital system (Eversolo T8 Streamer Transport wired to my router with USB connection to my Hegel H390 Integrated Amplifier and a legacy Nakamichi CD player with optical connection to my Hegel H390 Integrated Amplifier - all connected with Analysis Plus cables to my Treo CT speaker) does sound often as good as my analogue set-up (Technics SL1210G turntable, Ortofon MC Cadenza Bronze cartidge, Hegel V10 phono preamp, Hegel H390 Integrated amplifier and Vandersteen Treo CT speakers). My caveat is that strings sound a bit "warmer" with my analogue system. |
My mind is completely open, although it closes a bit when it comes to spending hundreds of dollars. Right now, the Meitner is not on a TP Link connection, though. Okay, so I have Meitner looking into it. They had me upgrade Mconnect and the Meitner MA3i. It still didn't work. I'm testing Qobuz connect and rather than stop at the third track of Mendelssohn Enescu, it jumped the fourth track and went to the fifth. Let me work with Meitner for a while, and then I'll go down your networking route. |
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