curiousjim
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| Canare 4S11 Has anyone tried their Bi-Wire! I just ordered a pair of single and a pair of Bi-Wires from Worlds Best Cables on Amazon. Should be here by Thursday evening. JD | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @fastfreight And happy 4th to you and yours. | |
| Analog vs. digital While I am now mostly digital these days, there are some vinyl albums that sound way better than their CD cousins and get played from time to time. I wish I understood why… | |
| Turn down the Volume! My KEF’s sound good from 40-90+ dbs and get fatiguing above that. But my happy place is in the 65-85 db range, so I can listen all day long. | |
| Recommend me a Class A Integrated Amp (or sound like Class A amp) @auroravengeance , I‘be been very happy with a Hegel H390. It’s class A/B and has a pretty neutral sound to it. Check it out. All the best. JD | |
| DAC diminishing returns Hi @dsfreeh, For what it’s worth, I have the original Schiit Bifrost multibit and I also have a Denafrips Pontus ll and the Pontus ll is hands down better sounding to me. There is nothing wrong with the BiFrost, in fact I’m still using it in a s... | |
| Best Stereo Upgrade Value Interconnects, speakers, amp, DAC, source, power. | |
| Quick USB question @crustycoot The Node doesn’t see my Terramaster NAS. If I can figure out the trail, it will see my external hard drive. But I don’t leave my computer on 24/7, so I really didn’t try. | |
| Quick USB question Thanks @danager I’ll check it out tomorrow. JD | |
| Quick USB question Let me rephrase my question, Does someone make a decent USB A/B switch? | |
| Quick USB question @antigrunge2 I’m trying to get something better than the $2-$10 ones I found online. | |
| Quick USB question @lg1 The manual says the USB is an audio 2.0 output under the specs and the says it’s a type A port for external drives. So that’s part of my confusion. | |
| Best/Cheapest/Easist Way To Burn CD's? I’ve been using Exact Audio Copy for years. Once you set it the way you want, it does it’s magic over and over. All the best. | |
| Can a set of Ls50 metas surpass or equal a set of Kef blade metas with subwoofers Question, what kind of music and what volumes do you listen? With the LS 50’s, you really need a subwoofer for them to blossom. The Blade Meta’s are crossed at 350 and 2000 And the Reference 5 meta’s are crossed at 450 and 2100. I have the 5’s and... | |
| Why do hipsters prefer analog? I guess I’m an almost former Hipster. I mostly listen to CD or CD ripped to the Nas, but there are a few vinyl disks that get spun from time to time. |