jjss49
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| Streamers - Auralic, Aurender, Lumin, others... agree that the volumio rivo plus is an excellent streamer in an absolute sense, and an excellent value too eversolo t8 is a terrific new one too, just a whole lot of streamer for the $, i haven’t tried a t8 yet but my experience with the dmp a6 m... | |
| Streamers - Auralic, Aurender, Lumin, others... auralic is out of business maybe their ip will be bought by another concern in time, but for now the company is kaput and their website is non responsive their sold units in circulation will continue to work but owners should be prepared for no ... | |
| Time to upgrade Mac mini 2014 I’m using the Mini HDMI out to the Oppo for its DACs, then feeding the Pre-pro. The WiiM is listed as Roon ready, which the Oppo is as well, so it is not a server, correct? mid I use the WiiM, then I have streaming, but not a Roon server a new ... | |
| Time to upgrade Mac mini 2014 get a used sonic transporter, and older gen one will work fine as a roon core machine, then get an ethernet cleanser, like an etherregen or its ilk to make sure the network feed is clean, and then, finally, get a decent cost effective streamer/DAC... | |
| Streaming questions with the widespread availabilty of power supply upgrades for the nodes i have set up several friends’ systems using them (as well as my own second system), as the sonic performance is greatly raised by getting the internal smps out and affording a... | |
| Mojo Audio Mystique X SE my 2 cents a few years back i tried a mojo (believe it was a mystique v3) and after extended listening i ended up returning it to ben... it is a very suave very smooth sounding dac, but in my system it I felt it lacked some drive, openness, and u... | |
| Power cable for digital sources op sounds like you are well down the cables and accessories rabbit hole in our lovely hobby i personally don’t spend big bucks on power cables, i tend to get well made quite reasonable cost stuff from smaller makers who don’t spend $$$ doing mar... | |
| Outboard Dac for Bluesound Nano I am impressed with the dac in the Nano, but I consider it the weak link in my system. Your thoughts? op i do not see your nano with s booster as the weak link in your setup (i think it fits right in very nicely) although i would say that wit... | |
| Jack DeJohnette R.I.P. he is a wonderful musician and wonderful person saw him just 18 mos ago at sfjazz, was full of vigor, gave a thrilling performance rip jdj with gary peacock gone a while back, now jdj, and kj debilitated, the great great piano trio has been sil... | |
| Streaming questions as per the above comment... bluesound node (or node nano), with a linear power supply to feed the power (there are plenty of modded nodes out there, get a n130 or n132 generation node, don’t get a node 2i or older) no regrets/no brainer move to ... | |
| Recommendations for a integrated amp hegel for sure musical fidelity perhaps possibly naim if you can find a good condition primare i-30, snap it up | |
| DAC upgrade op i concur with the suggestion to try an m scaler in front of your dave, it is an obvious thing to do ... the scaler typical adds a sense of richness and relaxedness to the sound of the chord dac it is connected to the denafrips dacs (venus and... | |
| Interconnect recommendations op your current system is quite nicely assembled you have gotten a lot of input already (maybe too much as it is) I would suggest two things 1. remove the bhk tube pre from the system and replace with an equivalent level solid state pre ... I ... | |
| High current amp search hegel h20 is an excellent value, clean sound, excellent grip, neutral highs and mids better/bigger odysseys also excellent value and terrific (a bit warmer) sound pass and coda class ab’s also beyond reproach albeit at a higher price point | |
| Leaving tube amps on. Does turning the amps on / off throughout the day / night do more harm than leaving them on ? in my view, no |