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DLNA Renderers: Sonore Rendu vs Moon Mind?
The Oppo 103 and 105 used as a DMR don't support gapless instructions.Lots of posts on Oppo forums bemoaning this gapless issue. I run Windows server 2012 with JRMC as media controller for the Oppo. 
choose a DAC to complete my system
Pelo911, the DAC is not your problem. Your cables have good reputationIf you are using a generic off the shelf, un-optimized PC then your sound will be incredibly mediocre for digital playbackOptions1) if computer savvy do the reading on computer ... 
DLNA Renderers: Sonore Rendu vs Moon Mind?
Sigh, if only the 105 supported gapless as a DMR. I'd love to go that path 
I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl
John_tracy, thanks that's good information and timely. The phono section of my CJ pre amp has a noisy channel and since that's acted up I've been thinking of finally tossing in the towel on Grado Signatures and going to a Dynavector MC setup. So I... 
I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl
that would be boring after having done TT setups professionally for 4 years in the 80's. Far more interesting is reading techniques for arm bearing friction optimization, tone arm wand rigidity and arm resonance damping technology. Tonearm cartrid... 
Still mystified by mega expensive power cords
My impression is this part of audio still lives in the midieval world of blind acceptance where the users don't seem willing to stand up and demand progress to at least the age of enlightenment where you have to at least show empirical principles ... 
New KT150 tubes?
The KT-120s sound fine but the internals of 1 were clearly not given a good visual QC... the posts (anode?) for the vertical glowing conductors are shorter above the top mica plate than the other 3 and guaranteed that when circuit protection cuts ... 
New KT150 tubes?
will keep my fingers crossed that these will be better quality and can be used in place of KT-120's. Love the sound of the KT-120 but quality of manufacturing precision is erratic compared to the GL KT-88's they retired for my amp. Given what we s... 
DLNA Renderers: Sonore Rendu vs Moon Mind?
Bump.I got a brief listen to the Moon MiND at a dealer and was less than impressed but who knows, their controller setup may have been not so hot. The Naim Network Player options on the other hand were worth some excitement but at a much higher pr... 
I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl
give me a MC any day of the week over a MM in playing an LP with minor surface defects... a good MC will be a relaxed sound as it plays through a defect whereas the good MM will make you jump from the high frequency spike. I call that sibilance.Tr... 
Replacing Turntable RCA cables
the B&O turntables were a proprietary slim design. I don't think you would be able to safely tinker with the arm unless you were a B&O shop. While they were mechanically excellent, they could only use B&O cartridges which is very limit... 
Looking to add warmth
Altering the tonal balance doesn't create warmth.... boy how I hated all those equalizers they tried to sell audiophiles in the 80's. What creates warmth is a system that in the midrange reproduces cleanly all the harmonic overtones for an instrum... 
Looking to add warmth
+1 to the Pre. I've tried DAC to amp twice and both times found input through pre amp was better. 
Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D
there is no right or wrong here. Life is full of compromises unless you are embarrassingly rich.. you just have to understand within what you can afford to spend what your compromises are. I have heard the Modwright integrated amp (SS)with the Mod... 
Am I headed down the road to ruin here?
You should find that if you rip your CD's to uncompressed format that they sound via asynch USB generally better than played as disc via the CD player if both inputs are passing through the CD player DAC section. Low bass should be where you notic...