big_greg
Responses from big_greg
| Qobuz Uber, I get it now. The Chromecast is a bargain DAC! | |
| High output MC cartridges The only time I’ve ever purchased a HOMC was because I got a really good deal on it. It is my 2nd best cartridge, a Van Den Hul MC Two Special. Maybe my best. The fact that it's a HOMC doesn't necessarily make it a bad cartridge. | |
| Qobuz Interesting approach Uber. I'm not familiar with BubbleUPnP so I'm probably missing something that it brings to the table. That seems like a lot of extra devices and software when you could just have the Qobuz app on your PC's screen and use t... | |
| Help me put together a $1000 (give or take) headphone rig -- new or used Consider the Bluesound Node 2i. It streams and includes a decent DAC. You can always upgrade to a better DAC later and continue to use the Bluesound for streaming. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steve Earle - Transcendental BluesThe Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of SurfacingI probably should have saved the second one for Monday! | |
| Qobuz Uber, I use Bluesound's app to control Qobuz in my main system and control it from my phone or tablet. Bluesound's implementation is very good. I do a lot of listening while I'm at my computer also. Since there's no streamer involved in that setup... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl Vinyl is projected to surpass CD in sales this year. I'm not sure age has a lot to do with it. When I visit my local record store, I'm often at the far (as in old) end of the age spectrum. | |
| Budget? Cartridge recommendations I really like my Hana SL. It's a great value at its price point.My Kiseki Blue NS is significantly better and can be found on Audiogon under your budget. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? I saw the date when I looked up that release on Qobuz. I guess I'll have to modify that to "new to me"! | |
| What are you streaming tonight? @uberwaltz I liked Veruca Salt back in the day and didn't realize they'd come out with something new. I'll have to check that out.I sold one of my headphone amps to a younger gentleman in his 20's yesterday and to my surprise, he picked out Steel... | |
| Help me put together a $1000 (give or take) headphone rig -- new or used The Massdrop HD6XX headphones are really good and leave you a lot of room in your budget for a good headphone amp. I have LCD-4, Sony MDR-Z1R, Sennheiser HD-800 which cost multiples of the HD6XX, and many other headphones as well. The HD6XX don'... | |
| Qobuz For those that found the Qobuz app buggy, the Windows app is now much improved. I found it almost unusable and cancelled my subscription also, but gave it another try a while later and came back. It works great now. My only complaint is that I ... | |
| Shot gunning tonight. I have a plethora of options - 5 turntables, 2 streamers, 2 computer playback systems, 2 SACD players, 2 Oppo players (the only time I use these for music is for 5.1 SACDs). The turntables in my main system and the computer playback systems in my... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl For me I think there's a lot of nostalgia to it. I used to have a small but nice record collection and an OK turntable and loved listening to albums. Not songs, but the entire creation of the artist. I bought a vintage Marantz receiver at a gar... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? In the mood for some Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, Qobuz |