craigl59
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| High End is Dead? flescher:Meant to add that you can add your own categories in JRiver in order to organize your collection (called a Library here). So, I define each rip with the qualifiers "genre" and "period" and can then use the advanced menu creation ability t... | |
| High End is Dead? Fascinating. Great to hear a behind-the-scenes inventory. Myself, enjoy the capability of taking my entire collection from summer to winter places on a Crucial 2tb drive. But we all must be a little envious of your hoard. | |
| High End is Dead? flescher42,000 records and CDs! How do you store and access them? Only have about 2500 CDs and find it is necessary to spend some time with organization -- even though they are all ripped in JRiver. Hardly ever need to access the original source.Y... | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? Here's a summary of issues surrounding MQA that agrees with both of you and makes an essential point: there was no need for MQA in the first place. The author has spent serious time with the issue.www.computeraudiophile.com/ca/reviews/mqa-a-review... | |
| Every Audiophile's Turn-on Elizabeth:Can understand your reticence; you don't after all, have much time left after this process... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( corvette01:Emotiva is following the same move towards HT; their success with the XMC-1 preamp and T1/2 speaker sets has pushed them logically in this direction. Their new design for a multi/multi-channel new pre (7 channels and up) is based on the... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( The Magico founder Alon Wolf based his business model on the new A3 for a projection of selling 1000 sets; at $9800 that's close to 10 million and enough to cover his substantial equipment outlay. Of course he is following a certain marketing appr... | |
| Every Audiophile's Turn-on uberwaltz:ULTIMATELY, there can only be one!One big box with a single input (network at ridiculous speed) and two outputs (HDMI and speaker connectors).In the box will be an operating system, a software media center (like Roon or JRiver), a softwa... | |
| Every Audiophile's Turn-on Schroeder:Think you're right, let's agree on this;The system wants to reach its bliss.If boxes cold and lifeless lie,A button switch is worth a try. | |
| Every Audiophile's Turn-on tls49:Thread participants decide whether simplest is best or more complicated wins. State your preference and we’ll tally the votes.Like the Google Home option; have one but have never gotten it connected to the audio stuff. Works great for the ph... | |
| Every Audiophile's Turn-on rar1:Neat and elegant; we have an early leader in the shortest turn-on category... | |
| Every Audiophile's Turn-on folkfreak:Impressive; the boxes build up after a while, don’t they? Assume you keep it in standby as much as possible. I use a Furman LPC Elite to keep all box power either switched or unswitched in order to help startup. | |
| DAC around 1.000 Euro for streaming environment Yes it will but you will have to decide how much of the Integrated amp you wish to use; the best audio might result from just using the amplifier portion.BTW, is the DAC now available in Europe or is it still backordered? | |
| Screaming bargains in DSD-capable DACs? RME ADI-2 DAC; very hard to find because it is so good at its price point of $999. A DAC/Pre worth investigating. | |
| DAC around 1.000 Euro for streaming environment RME ADI-2 DAC. This new product from the studio leader RME is so popular it has outsold all of its first 3 runs; RME can't produce enough. Functions as an ideal DAC/Pre with five options for refining the filters from Sharp to NOS.Give this box a l... |