agirard
Responses from agirard
| I Cried Today Growing up, my uncle played jazz on the stereo in his workshop and in the car on trips to New England. It’s a driver of my life-long love for music. A step on the journey to so many hours learning from you all about how to get better sound. Thank... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? Years ago I used the optical out on an Airport Express to stream to a Schiit Bifrost Multibit DAC, which I thought was an improvement over the Airport's internal DAC. I swapped out the Airport for an Allo DigiOne Signature with Shanti linear powe... | |
| Ethernet switches the good and bad I have the DX Engineering filters between every network component and definitely hear a positive difference. The "rabbit hole" reference above made me think of the Down The Rabbit Hole: Network Tweaks & Streamer DIY blog at TMR which has beco... | |
| Roon….The Gordon Knot of concierge musical services? Is your network in good shape? PC running Roon hard-wired to the router with ethernet? Router, switches, phone, and tablet rebooted? Router settings thoroughly checked? My iPhone, older windows laptop, and NUC running ROCK that replaced it all run... | |
| Small, Effective Subwoofers? I have a pair of Rel T/5x's paired with my Dynaudio Special 40's. I put them next to the speaker stands where I had planned when I got them and after trying to dial them in did not like the sound. I then put them in the front corners, back corner... | |
| I Was Stunned Took the family to Manhattan a few years ago to buy a secondhand rack made by Box Furniture Company. Made a weekend out of it. Got home, set everything up, and had a listen. Of all the upgrades, tweaking, and modifications over the years - many ... | |
| Placement of subwoofers I have two Rel T5/x paired with my Dynaudio Special 40 bookshelves. My first experience with subwoofers, I initially followed Rel's guidance and put them in the corners of the front wall. That produced lots of bass boom, prompting an all-day exe... | |
| Streaming – Discovering Similar or New Music I use Roon with a Qobuz subscription. I mostly listen to the "Your Daily Mixes" feature. One disappointing experience is that Roon's "Your Daliy Mixes" tend to populate well-known albums that for me are played out (at least in the jazz genre). ... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @sns, your post 2 up seems to sum up the main point that sucked in from the beginning - do what we can to keep the signal clean from the start. Hence my suggestion of the SB2800 router and EdgeRouter X (still need to hear it when it gets here!). A... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers Thanks @lalitk. | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers Another way to look at it: It's probably safe to say the vast majority of people reading this are readers, not contributors. Having mostly been the former, I come here to see what optimizations people have made that improve the sound. WHY the o... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers Thank you @lalitk for sharing the video from Hans. A nice explanation of the issues with switches that some manufacturers work hard to resolve. And a tempered/qualified endorsement of the now way-inexpensive Cisco 2960, which I modded to power by ... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers The idea of a well-engineered streamer made with quality parts doing a good job of fixing networking problems makes sense to me. Unfortunately, those products are usually well out of my price range, leaving me to focus on low-cost tweaks discussed... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers I’m sold on the benefits of network optimization. I’ve added boxes to the Arris cable modem supplied by my ISP, including of course a router (TP-Link AX50), used Cisco 2960 switch bought on Amazon for $25 (wow), fiber out from the switch to an Et... | |
| Best integrated tube amplifier, under $3,000.00. No phono needed. Could be used, too.d Just bought the Octave V40 mentioned a few posts up (it was in the mail at that time). Replaced the power tubes with Gold Lion reissues. Figured I’d share my message to the seller:”KT88s arrived a day early and have been in since lunch. WOW! Fanta... |