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Alan Parsons - From The New World
How does it compare to IRobot ?  
Streamer/CD ripper
A cd is not as accurate for it is rotating and harder for the laser to read  and error correction is used as needed. Good digital cost đź’˛ monies at least $2k bare minimum. Just for decent Ethernet, fiber optic and or usb cables ,plus  a good Ethe... 
Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market
Hands down Best Buy Sonus Faber Lumina5 floorstanders around $3-3500  
wanting to take a digital step
This dac beat everything up to 2x it’s cost check it out.    
DAC’s
The T&A dac 200 has beat anything under$15 k in several areas and many filters to adjust to your taste well worth checking out in the$7 k range.  
If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over.............
Any recording played too often would be sickening , but let’s just say all time favorites , and then what type of music , from Rock , to jazz to R&B to symphony  country , easy listening , that’s what I mean just too many areas to cover , eac... 
Streamers and their Fuses
Hello Brandon , are you speaking of Audio magic fuses, or magic audio as you have listed ?  IHave the Synergistic purple dual 16 amp slow blow  in my Coda amp section and there is a very noticeable upgrade , guys stating a fuse is a fuse knows lit... 
Denafrips 12 anniversary
I listen to a lot of dacs and equipment throughout north east get together I finally found a breakthrough dac highly advanced. And has implementation forHQ player  through a high end computer and cleans all incoming signals from jitter on. Severa... 
Mid-fi tube vs high-end SS
There are now a bunch of amps the Coda Amplifier U.S.A retail before-discounts $6 k  then class D   T&A from Germany is very good around $5k just a sample of the next tier  in quality best in class .  
Japanese Luxman Integrated Amps
Warranty is void for sure, as shown a good transformer is over $1k better off sticking to U.S , then another Big issue especially as of last 2 years customs duties and big time damage issues and refusal to pay on claims I know several people who ... 
Mid-fi tube vs high-end SS
A pure class A tube amp would be under 20 watts in a Tube amp , 50 watts pentode or ultralinear  , and$2k is just a starting point fora tube amplifiers  One ofthe key elements is the transformers ,and chokes ,brand name like Lundahl  that Ayon ... 
Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused
Bricasti amplifiers and preamplifiers are substantially better in tone , micro detail, bass capability ,accuracy and tone and depth of instruments totally on a much higher level and their drivers and cabinets far from ideal and vibrate ,and driver... 
Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused
There are no internal powered speakers that can compete in amplification, or loudspeaker design sonically , these are average quality class D amps  I have heard several respectable class D amps but they all start around $5k  genelec is a good po... 
Cables
For price ,performance the Wireworld Eclipse is a very good choice and not crazy expensive , most don’t have Copper ,they use Brass , Wireworld Silver over Copper connectors.  And  7-9s Copper ,and their patented low dielectric ,and Straight Litz ... 
HoloAudio STREAMER is out now
Not real worth much ,not Roon ready ,power supplies are not that great as well as power regulation ,   A Roon nucleus is better if you add a linear power supply ,much better . Holo springs make very respectable dacs ,if they are going to build a ...