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| Lumin upgrade @jimboman Thanks!!! Yes it’s mind boggling the difference this streamer made. Truly impressed with it. | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz @mojo771 if you are streaming via Bluetooth then really it doesn’t matter what streaming service you use. You’re sending lossy audio to your streamer. That’s a waste of money so might as well cancel your tidal and just use free Spotify or the chea... | |
| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC @bigfatpaulie GIK sells stands for the panels. Mount a thick GIK 244 panels on these stands for each first reflection point. Store these two panels in the garage or something like that, and break em out for your critical listening sessions. Then s... | |
| Young audiophile metal head looking to level up speaker choice Golden Ear floor standers have a built in powered sub that you can adjust to integrate with the mids and highs in your room. For metal you do not want anything super revealing as majority of the bands are less than perfectly recorded. So you need ... | |
| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC @bigfatpaulie that fuzzy center image is most likely due to first reflection points not being treated. The fireplace has some say in it but it’s negligible. The direction of the sound your Sashas put out is forward with tweeter and midrange disper... | |
| Lumin upgrade Cool. Great to hear! | |
| Lumin upgrade @jimboman got my answer to the question on how you are connecting streamer to dac. So did the U2 opened up the top end a bit? It should be a nice step up in resolution from the Mini. | |
| Cable upgrades Hey James I wanted to ask how are you connecting Lumin to Benchmark DAC? Are you going via USB or coax? | |
| Contemporary Classical Composers - new discoveries @mahler123 we may be missing out so let’s not worry about that criteria. The thread has evolved beyond it and I think it’s great. @mahgister went thru few of your recommendations. I’m familiar with Philip Glass’ work and wanted to give him ano... | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 @julie_priest Weiss 501 is a dac with a built in network renderer. I wasn’t looking for a DAC upgrade. Also, I wasn’t interested in the twice as expensive as the N200 Grimm MU1. So, no, I didn’t audition these units. | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 Glad you enjoyed it! I’ll have to check that Krall album…haven’t heard it in a while | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 @mclinnguy 😂 | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 @mclinnguy lmao on a serious note, A Fortnight in France is one of my favorite Peanut Butter albums. It doesn’t come up on roon search or qobuz or tidal. Her cover of “Norwegian Wood” on Fortnight is amazing. Modern Cool is another missing one. ... | |
| Ripping CDs @rvpiano how many CDs do you need to rip? And I would start with the 💿 of artists/performances you can’t find on streaming. | |
| Ripping CDs @rvpiano you need a computer, cd-rom drive, SSD(highly recommend it, but HDD will also do) and software. I use dbPoweramp software to rip to FLAC. It’s very good. If you use free version it won’t pull artwork but you can find it on discogs and ju... |