mgrif104
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| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cerrot The sound quality of USB is highly system dependent. There are plenty of high quality DACs for which the manufacturer is recommending USB as the preferred connection. Certainly, If I were using a traditional computer as a source, I would a... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cleeds sorry to hear of your experience. My own experience has been quite good. I found the system more stable than the other servers I own and updates effortless. I’m at a loss to explain the difference but it should be noted by the OP. | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please There are a good number of threads attempting to answer this question and you might find it beneficial to look through this forum toward that end. The Aurender N100H is a very good unit - in terms of quality, it’s the middle range of the three se... | |
| NAD M33 Initial Thoughts I have an NAD M12 and M22 - predecessors to the M33 - in one of my systems. It is pretty good gear and it’s my expectation that your M33 is superior. it’s also well known that it takes about 400 hours of break in to achieve the designed performa... | |
| Streaming vs CD transport direct comparison @grannyring I too loved the Roon interface. And it certainly sounded good. It was only when i did a direct comparison that i noticed it was deficient in comparison. And, BTW, I perused the manufacturer's forum and found that many users had the sa... | |
| Streaming vs CD transport direct comparison Interesting comparison and we appreciate you sharing the results. I will say that I directly compared Roon to Lighting DS through my Auralic Aries G2. LDS was significantly better in every regard than Roon which I subsequently dropped.I’m not su... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Roberta Flack - First Take. What a voice! | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? It can be frustrating. If at all possible, connect your Node via Ethernet as opposed to WiFi. My problems went away completely when I did. You can get a bridge or set up a mesh network and plug into the Ethernet ports on one of your waypoints. ... | |
| Simaudio 680D? Hi Deeppurpleman: I stream Qobuz primarily. I’ve also had Tidal but Qobuz sounds a bit better and the depth of their catalogs are converging. I also became annoyed with Tidal’s hip hop centric recommendations.I also have a NAS so I use the Aries ... | |
| Simaudio 680D? I thought the app functionality fine, but the sound of the streamer element of the 390 was a drawback. I was able to feed the unit from my streamer vs the one built in. Not even close. Are you saying that you think it will also be limiting (sou... | |
| Diminishing returns? Sound quality and value/worth is really subjective. Many of us here on these forums have decided that it is worth going upstream. A large number of participants here would say it is diminishing returns.The units you’re considering are well regar... | |
| Kef reference 3 I have the Ref 3s and so am obviously biased. I think they’re exceptional and spent more than a year considering others at or around their price. I’d buy them again in a heartbeat over all the others auditioned. Indeed, they’re the only componen... | |
| MacBook Pro streamer While USB works well when using a dedicated streamer, it seems to work less well coming out of a computer. USB tends to pick up a good amount of noise from the computer.Before I moved on to dedicated streamers, I bought from Schiit Audio a USB>... | |
| Streamer Software Lots of good information here. I have experience with Aurender’s conductor (I own an N100H and use it extensively in system 2). I have experience with Auralic’s Lighting DS (I own an Aries G2 and use it in system 1). I have experience with BluO... | |
| adding a DAC/Streamer or what There’s a plenty of good advice here. I’ll add my own $.02 as I have a bit of a different view than some. We all agree on the importance of the DAC. However, if you have a $10k budget, and given the high quality of your other system components,... |