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| Breaking in new speakers, what is your favorite music for this? +1 Stereo5 On top of that I also use the Ayre album Irrational but Efficacious album. The noise loops for hours even overnight at lower levels and then run the full glide tone track to tune up the system daily. | |
| Power cable DH Labs Corona AC is my favorite for under $3K, and it “only” costs $950 for 5’. I’ve preferred it over the $2500 Shunyata NR series. Incredible proprietary shielding and counter-spiraled 10awg silver-coated oxygen-free copper conductors for nois... | |
| NYC Audio Show 32nd street and Broadway I no longer live in NYC but if I did I’d go. I asked other folks I know there, and most said they wouldn’t be going this year. Let us know what stands out if you go. | |
| Legacy Audio Powerbloc 5 Seems the PowerBloc 5 is a fairly dated unit. Two sites I came across showed it in manufacture from 2000-2001. Some specs and manual are published here: https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/legacy/powerbloc-5.shtml Back then Legacy was focu... | |
| Walk me thru upgrading from my BS Node @poke33 The one thing I would suggest is that while great one box solutions exist, I would strongly recommend using an Ethernet connection over wireless if you decide to invest heavily in a digital source. Why? Because having the wifi in the unit ... | |
| NODE as just a streamer / Airplay device @curiousjim That is a new feature with Bluesound being able to attach external drives, and it’s great to hear about. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Aurender N200 Yeah you don’t need huge speakers for that space. La Scalas are massive, basically 24x24x36. The Volti have such a different sonic signature from Klipsch and features a bit more tonal richness so it will depend if that will work well with the rest... | |
| Aurender N200 This is the first time I’m hearing of Toolshed gear, and I see they are in the next state over from me. I’ve loved the different SET amps as I had them over the years, but I’ve since moved on. @oddiofyl How big is your room? I’m a fan on full ra... | |
| Cartridge/ Tonearm compatibility It will be just fine with it. I like to use this tool to check: https://www.vinylengine.com/cartridge_resonance_evaluator.php?eff_mass=10.7&submit=Submit Doing so, you'll see that with a 10.7 gram effective mass and between an 8 and 9 grams ... | |
| Aurender N200 @dinov I was just ensuring the right information is offered to the public and also trying to be lighthearted and humorous about the situation. I 100% agree that if you are not using the built-in storage of the Aurender, you would not be using it f... | |
| NODE as just a streamer / Airplay device Node 2i and the later Node N130 both added AirPlay support, but if you want to store files, you’d have to use the Bluesound Vault 2i, not the Node. @12many The Bluesound ecosystem does a fine job of streaming (and file management and serving of u... | |
| Aurender N200 @dinov Not trying to change your mind, but I want to provide clarification. Should an Aurender unit go down, you don’t need someone with an Aurender to retrieve your music files. You can remove the drives and install them in any other enclosure to... | |
| Streamlining streamers @atlvalet you could go for the N150 or ACS100. You could even purchased older units like the N100 used for less, but the sound quality also performs a bit lower than current models. | |
| Aurender N200 @dinov I agree with you on where the value proposition is with Aurender. But if it were up to me, in the case of a hurricane, I'd rather take the N200 that has all of my NAS files in it! The N200's form factor isn't that much bigger than a typical... | |
| Aurender N200 @dinov and @cleeds - for clarification, Aurender does not require you to use the internal bays for storing your music library. It absolutely has the ability to connect to a NAS on your network if that is the route you prefer to go. But there are b... |