chuckccs

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Greg, yeah, hip hop isn't down the middle of the plate for me! But so far, everything except one obscure album (Ry Cooder soundtrack Paris, Texas) that i have looked for, I have found on Tidal.  But the MQA is the question and it drives hardward t... 
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@bajaed  The trick is to hold on tight to your budget! So many attractive options that get pricey in a hurry. I am already thinking about options well past my $2k... 
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Oh... qobuz. Never heard of it until this thread.  I will look into it.  And I never imagined maybe having more than one streaming service! I am old! 
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Greg, thanks a lot - seriously - for your input (and everyone else - that a person can go online and get thoughtful discussion re all of this still is incredible to me).  Yeah, the vinyl - well, on some albums, it's still  just dead quiet; I clean... 
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And everyone- thanks a lot. I am definitely getting a clearer idea of how to think this through! 
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Oh, Greg. Yes, vinyl is def much better than my pretty low end CD player. Difference is musicians in the room vs sound in a box. Which is what my phone hooked into amp sounds like. 
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Thx Greg. A second vote of the Teac. Sure do wish I could go hear these but in the days of the virus and being an older guy, no can do. So you get a controller app on your phone that communicates via bluetooth with the front end functionality and ... 
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So here’s what I am hearing. I should just start with the Node 2i. Maybe that’ll be good enough for my system/ears, maybe it won’t. If not, I’ll have a decision: which streaming service (MQA, no MQA) I can test that out a little with node as some ... 
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Ok, one more comment/question.  So you can sort think of streaming as possibly two things. There's the 'player' - like a CD transport - that sends the digital output to the DAC.  So the front end is mainly about connecting to the internet, the mus... 
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PS: if someone thinks, oh man, if you'd just spend (fill in a reasonable amount) it'll be a major leap forward, I'd like to know what this is, too. It's only money.  
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Thx, guys. Question. This stuff is still confusing to me. How does something like Bluesound node2 and Chord Qutest work together? What does each do? Would the node be sort of like the front end (get and manage the streaming) and the Chord do the a...