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| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? I’m trying to refrain from using a term “neutral”. I don’t know if my streamer, DAC, interconnects, cables and components downstream from the source are neutral. There’s just no way for me to possibly know that unless I can A/B what I am hearing a... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @hilde45 does your Spring KTE have an optional preamp module installed? If your goal is to compare amps, it would be interesting to compare the amps by using a DAC’s preamp section. Or you can get Schiit SYS. It’s passive, transparent and cheap. ... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @sns I own XP22 and it’s an awesome preamp. I have never heard Coincident. I really like the XP22 - for me, it checks all the boxes. There’s also an obvious synergy between it and the Pass X260.8 in my system. I love tubes though but currently am ... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @hilde45 yes I have. @yyzsantabarbara I just adhered to the scope of the discussion. On volume controls….one of my first preamps was Hafler IRIS. The remote control had physical knobs for volume and balance. It was the most amazing and coolest th... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice Juan…yeah we’ll wait :) | |
| Aurender Music Server and CD Transport comparison You might want to buy a few transports and do a shootout with your streamer and keep the CDT that sounds best to you. Avoid the forums altogether with this kind of attitude and your inability to provide a full system context in order to get a prop... | |
| Aurender Music Server and CD Transport comparison I think your bottleneck is the NAD on-board DAC. Not sure why you need a cd transport but you are probably not maximizing the performance of your N100C by running it into that NAD. Better investment would be a better integrated amp and an external... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice @zpatenaude37 got it. | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice @lalitk I’m a Roon user. I still have an active subscription but not using it anymore in my main system since I switched to Aurender. I also heard about Roon integration being “in the works” but haven’t heard it from an official and reliable sourc... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice zpatenaude37 OP 28 posts 01-31-2024 at 02:41pm I guess Aurender is close to being Roon compatible. What is the source of this information? | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice Looks like Melco has a USB DAC-dedicated output. So I would compare N200 and Melco using USB out. Make a note though….Qobuz sounds better than Tidal with the Aurender N200. Not sure about Melco. To @mclinnguy’s point…the key is to use what works ... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @hilde45 your question is What attributes do you look for in a good solid state preamp? for me it is the following - tone - must be natural dynamic range - must be able to sound laid back and gentle but scale up to explosive forces fast... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice I don’t have any major grievances with the conductor app. Roon is more advanced in few areas - it slices and dices, consolidates and filters better than the Conductor. It also provides an actual bitrate of the album in the search results as oppose... | |
| Amp upgrade, speaker cables or both What is it that you don’t like about the way it all sounds now? | |
| Aurender Conductor App Question It shows in both portrait and landscape modes on my iPad, but not on the phone. |