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| Looking for High Quality Streamer Only Options (NO DAC)? Hi there. I like a raspberry pi based streamer from pi2 aes. They make a solution in a box but for about $250 you can buy their raspberry pi hat. I installed free Volumio software on the device and it works like a charm with roon. I used to use an... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. I have to strongly disagree. Old, bearded yes. Sweaty no. | |
| Best streamer, don't want Roon, don't want a screen, A DAC is OK but not necessary If you are going to use the MacBook pro to a DAC via USB get yourself galvanic isolation. Most good DACs now have a decent clock for asynchronous transfer, so you are OK there, but the noise from the Mac is a real issue. I bought an Intona isolati... | |
| Battle of the Older DAC I would add RME ADI2 to the list. I had this and the Chord Quest. They are both great for the price but quite different. Ended up feeding the RME right into my power amp. After much switching, it just sounded better - fuller bass, plenty of deta... | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain Enjoy! With each of the Celestions I have, music that is harsh on other speakers becomes a joy. Beautiful detail and imaging too. | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain Elliotbnewcomjr Thanks for the extensive advice and examples. Very (elpful and I will study. grislybutter - loved Celestions ever since the SL6si were my first audiophile speakers long ago. Tried to build on that and came upon used 700se. The... | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain Kind of you to say so. It was a bit disturbing for a few minutes, but audio has distracted me - my refuge as always. :) | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain My post was blocked by a moderator - it was only letting people know about an interesting comparison of passive preamps, with extensive measurements. Wonder why that was not allowed? Didn't push any of the buttons about profanity or being mean etc... | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain Test. I am being blocked and wondering if it is the link I wanted to show you. | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain Thanks all for your help. Looked at the HANA SL and it is affordable and reviews well. Will I do much better by going up to say 2K. No burning desire to spend money here, but maybe better than buying a second one later. I wonder also when the tur... | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain The phono pre has a fixed gain for MM but variable for MC. Don't really know where to begin trying to understand and compare cartridges. I will do some searching on YouTube and Google etc. Thanks. | |
| Use of Y connector rather than passive preamp Just to be clear, the DAC has good output and a volume control, so you could say it has a preamp built in. When using the DAC I will just set the volume on the passive pre to max. I hope this will sound essentially like cabling directly into the p... | |
| Use of Y connector rather than passive preamp Have been looking into this. Some brands to check: Schiit, Mapletree, Goldpoint, Khozmo, Little bear/Nobsound, This covers a variety of prices and quality for stepped attenuators and potentiometers. You can also look into some based on transformer... | |
| Use of Y connector rather than passive preamp Just in case anyone checks this later: It can be ok to split an upstream signal so that it feeds into two amps, not ok to feed two upstream signals into the same amp input. If they are on at the same time, bad things can happen. I thought maybe b... | |
| Use of Y connector rather than passive preamp Thanks for your help. Will give it a shot. |