ahofer
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| Whats playing on your system today? Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony). Good audition track, ranging from full range lush string sounds to dense horn and woodwind orchestration.Previously the Mozart Violin Concerto #5. Listen for the bows hitting string... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! @geoffkait yes, he was more right than wrong, but I'm happy to review any evidence I may have missed. And one look at the internal wiring of speakers and amps will unveil what economists call "revealed preferences" about wire. If anything, the ... | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? I've done it for years, started with my Theta DS Pre in the early 1990s, and doing it now with the Cambridge Audio Edge NQ (which also styles itself a DAC/preamp). I've never bought the claims that introducing a preamp improves the sound, unless... | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? You'd think with all the improvements we hear about from one year to the next that the best audio system for a given price today would wipe the floor with the best audio system at the same inflation-adjusted price point from ten years ago.I'm not ... | |
| looking for ideas on must have classical music Scanning through the above, there's not enough:MendelssohnSchumannSchubertChamber music in general (I only saw the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, which is a good rec)So, with that in mind, I suggest you getDvorak - "Dumky" TrioMendelssohn quartets and/o... | |
| Initial Thoughts on Harbeth Super HL5 Plus With a little more time in, I'd say one thing these Harbeths do better than anything else I've heard is remain transparent at low volumes. A lot of other fine speakers take a decent volume push to open up, but not these.So many of my recordings s... | |
| I want a streamer That's a shame about chromecast audio. THe latest Cambridge audio streamer has it built in, though. Works better than the dongle, actually. | |
| Moderately priced audio Two thoughts:1. A few thousand dollars is actually the sweet spot, where you get high quality gear, and the first derivative of quality per dollar from there is decreasing rapidly.2. All the folks with the audio bug are letting stuff go for a song... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? So far tonight:1)Mahler 1 2) Joe Henderson big bandand now 3) Brahms "Nanie"Listening with the new Harbeths (Super HL5+ 40th). Glorious on all three. Great evening of listening. | |
| I want a streamer Another route, for maximum flexibility, look at the Sonores. https://www.sonore.us/index.html | |
| Initial Thoughts on Harbeth Super HL5 Plus I just received my long-awaited Super HL5+ Anniversary in Tamo Ash. I'm in the middle of a similar 'honeymoon' to the one described by the OP. Frankly, I was worried that my expectations had inflated with the wait and I would be disappointed. I... | |
| Has anybody tried Qobuz Streaming service? Archimago has a MQA test here: http://archimago.blogspot.com/2017/07/internet-blind-test-mqa-core-decoding.html | |
| I forgot to mention Excellent! Is it driving a set of Kef Muons, or just some $60k Raidhos? | |
| music server questions. My setup meets your requirements. As a server, I use a QNAP NAS, which comes with apps for a one-click install of several music/media server packages. I run Minimserver for home and Plex server for remote access. In general, this is a much lighte... | |
| Forking from the cables thread to a discussion of whether hi-res is audible..... Another one - https://www.mixonline.com/recording/emperors-new-sampling-rate-365968 |