I spoke to Amadeus Meitner at EMM today. He asked me to send an email to Issis about the process of fixing the drop offs. I told him a friend told me about it. When he asked your name, I of course didn't know. I said I'd contact you and perhaps you would be willing to talk to Issis about how you knew it was a network problem. I have no idea about your background. Perhaps you helped Al Gore invent the internet. Anyway, I'm sending Issis an email to let her know about the process of fixing my drop offs.
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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@audio-b-dog the TP Link Deco caused issues my friend has been facing since he introduced this mesh, and these problems were eliminated by replacing TP Link with eero. |
@mclinnguy OCD Mikey is a dealer for PBD. The owner of that system who Mikey solicited feedback from wasn’t going to dive too deep into the sonics and differences. PBD is great stuff, no doubt. But I’d take all that was said there with a grain or 2 of salt. |
@audphile1 Of course It sure would be cool if that fella could post in here to compare the two setups though, relevant to the OP's original question. Some sweet gear. |
But my Meitner MA3i wasn't hooked up to the TP Link. It was hooked directly into the ATT fiber hub/router. The Meitner was on a separate password than the TP Link. Rationally, it didn't exactly fit what I know about networks, although I'm no guru. I worked at HP in computer sales and stuff rubbed off on me. Anyway, it worked, and is working now as I wirte this. I think I mentioned that the guy who wrote the Meitner MA3i review for Stereophile had a dCS stack, the $1/4 million one, and his bottom line was the dCS stack was better but he could happily listen to the MA3i. He dismissed the MA3 as so far beneath the MA3i, it wasn't worth talking about. That's one of the reasons I decided to upgrade early. |
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