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Re: streaming recommendations for newbie
Couple of Blue Sound nodes over on TMR for around $300 and a Bel Canto DAC 1.7 over on USAM for $550.        
If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?
Quagmire Central  
Aurender is finally Roon Ready?!
Use Roon for non-critical listening, using its world leading music discovery algorithm, then once a song requires that last (you pick the percentage increase in sq) flip over to a different app, in my case squeeze, to hear it in all its glory. ... 
Replacement Woofer for Polk TSI 100
@gkelly Thanks for the tip After dragging these out i remember that both woofer cone appears to be frozen in place and when tested no sound comes out of either speaker.  What happens to cause a cone to be frozen? These speaker were connected to a... 
Amp hum.
Charles Mingus: Amp Hum Sorry, couldn't resist/  
Aurender n200, talk me out of signing on the dotted line
@wlutke add the below link for the RadioParadise FlAC link with Metadata. http://stream.radioparadise.com/flacm   mother earth converts vinyl to high res digital https://motherearth.streamserver24.com/listen/motherearth/motherearth    
Please help with Roon server/core issue
@mapman  Why not judt buy a decent fedicated streamer ?  I like this:  combination between federated and dedicated. 😎  
Noob question about streaming . . .
Listen to Tidal for a bit before making any more moves just to get a baseline. Helps to understand the improvements in each addition, if any.   How is the Tidal stream getting to the Pre?   Note: ROON ain't a streaming service. Its just softwa... 
Please help with Roon server/core issue
When I first read OP post I suspected router.  Maybe you can open a ticket with service provider and have them run a check on modem/router to see if its kicking errors at their end.  Other good suggestions here about connections as well.  If possi... 
Roon vs OS and Native Players - Impact on SQ?
Another cool thing about ROON is the control app can function as an endpoint. Sometimes I will take a set of blue tooth headphones to bed a listen to a little music via the iPAD to relax. The desktop app the same, it sees my little Audio Engine D1... 
Streamer only
@pal If you have an apple iPAD or iPhone you can go USB into the 585 and use the native Qobuz app to test out streaming to see if you like it before letting the peoples here talk you into spending a wad of cash just because you got a nice integrat... 
BAT VK3500 vs. Hegel H590
I had one of the Hegel entry level integrated in my house for a weekend and thought it sounded great.  If I was going to collapse my separates Hegel would be at the top of the list.   
Aurender n200, talk me out of signing on the dotted line
@cleeds said: The Aurender was never really stable and after months of back-and-forth with Aurender’s only tech guy, I gave up. I dumped it at a loss for a Bryston BDP-3 and I’ve been happy as a clam every since. Just to reinforce this (Brysto... 
Streamer/DAC combinations
Don't know if the Moon Ace would nock your C42 off its perch but ListenUp has them marked down to $3.5K.  Collapse the streamer,DAC and pre into one tidy unit.   
Qobuz vs. Tidal
I tried them both and could not tell a difference in SQ so I went with The Qobuz cause I didn't care for the history of Tidal the way it came to be.