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| Why no love for Apple Music? One main reason I can think of is Qobuz and Tidal had lossless streaming first and people see no reason to change now. Also, many use Roon and only Qobuz and Tidal integrate. Psychologically, Apple is a technology/marketing company while the other... | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? How does the music make you feel and is it inline with how you wanted to feel at the time? Rather than listening for being able to hear this breath or that cymbal hit, how does it feel when you listen? That will tell you what sounds best. If it me... | |
| Down To The Crunch Kii's are more detailed to me than the D&D. I've trialed both in my house. The controller makes the Kii easier to use but still not easy. D&D is just becoming Roon ready so you only need an ethernet cable and some app (previous they had no... | |
| Passive vs Active...Again! As @djones51 said, Dutch & Dutch or Kii. I've had them both in my house. The D&D are much better looking in my opinion and could live with either. For under $15k you have a whole system. Ethernet into the speaker and, with the new firmwar... | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference If you don't hear a difference then there's no difference to you. I wouldn't care about others opinions if I were you. I've tried streamers from about $4500 and down and heard no difference. Buy a streamer based on features (do you need AES, USB, ... | |
| Bruno Strikes Again. Purifi 1ET7040SA VTV Amplifier. @yyzsantabarbara Have you tried Cherry Amps? I have heard them (not sure which one but I know it was a newer model) on some JTR speakers and the bass was insane without the amp even hinting at trying. I've truly never heard bass like that outside ... | |
| Preamp shootout: Linear tube audio, Modwright, etc. Primaluna Evo 400, Backert Labs Rhumba 1.3, Rogue RP7 for tubes. Any Ayre preamp for solid state. Those are ones I've tried in that price range. The Primaluna was the most "open" of them all. Depending on what I'm listening to, what time of day/n... | |
| Not Sure If This Is OK Here, But Here Goes I believe PayPal has something in place that you have to ship to the/an address on their PayPal account or it's not covered. I may be totally wrong but I won't ship anywhere except the PayPal address. | |
| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday | |
| My new VTV Audio Class D amp arrived today @jerryg123 That Audio Hungary amp sounds and looks great. I look forward to your impressions of the others in comparison. | |
| Help Logging in to Qobuz with Teac NT 505 I have a Lumin and an NT-505 so one app controls both. I just checked and Qobuz still is logged in and works fine. I only use the Lumin app, not the Teac one. Roon also works fine. | |
| Interesting observations HDMI cables are really finnicky. Now try one like this to see if it sounds different: https://www.amazon.com/Stouchi-Certified-Compatible-Playstation-Samsung/dp/B091CK3PSC | |
| "warm" solid state integrated amplifier The Krell K-300i mentioned above a few times is great. Get it with the DAC card and you have a fantastic all-in-one, including HDMI eARC. I've had that and the Ayre AX-5 Twenty at the same time in my system and could live with either. The Ayre was... | |
| Capital Audio Fest Notes @bache I'd love to come to Brooklyn, Greg. Is it the 002AB you are speaking of? What tube amp, if any, do you run them with normally? | |
| Capital Audio Fest Notes The BMR speakers were really nice. I thought it was funny that Dennis (Murphy, owner/designer of BMR) was using an old Onkyo CD player and some Class D Topping amp. He said he doesn’t have time to learn how streaming works so he uses CD’s still. |