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| Senore ultraRendu or Oppo 205 as Roon endpoint Once I got everything straightened out, the sound quality of files played using the Oppo 205 as a Roon endpoint is excellent. I'll take down the ultraRendu and LPS-1.2. A big turning point was setting up a Velodyne HGS-10 to augment the KEF LS50... | |
| Senore ultraRendu or Oppo 205 as Roon endpoint I connected Ethernet directly to the Oppo 205 and Roon came up, but the sound quality is less good. Any conclusion is confounded by too many changes. An Oppo 205 and NAD M22 replaced the ultraRendu, Ayre QB-9 DSD DAC, and Ayre A7e integrated amp. ... | |
| An ideal (minimal) 2.1 setup Doesn't need a center channel, but needs a couple of subs. If choice 1, a KEF KC62 would seem ideal -- Darko review. | |
| Do you integrate a stereo preamp with HT system? ilikewcrb, it does not. The Ayre magic is the music just seems to flow as though there is no technology reproducing it. That’s true also of the C-5xeMP CD/SACD player I’ve had for years, my first taste of the Ayre sound that got me hooked. Mechan... | |
| How are you getting your surround sound? For surround, I use HDMI from an Ayre DX-5 DSD disc player to a Bryston SP3 processor. I suppose it would be trivial to add HDMI from an Apple or Amazon streamer. Only complication is that I take video straight for the DX-5 DSD to the projector, b... | |
| Do you integrate a stereo preamp with HT system? jumia, I use an Ayre DX-5 DSD disc player, KX-5 preamp, and Bryston SP 3 processor. I use the Ayre remote to select the by-pass input and the Bryston remote to control volume for the surround complex. It's really very simple. | |
| Do you integrate a stereo preamp with HT system? For stereo, balanced analog goes directly from a disc player to a preamp. For surround, HDMI goes from the disc player to a processor; the processor returns balanced front LR analog to a by-pass input of the preamp, and sends surround channels to ... | |
| Surround speaker setup: disc player or processor? Following the advice I've received in this thread, I set the speakers using the Bryston SP3 menu, then played Blu-rays of Legends of Jazz and Mahler's 2nd with Chailly conducting at the Mahler festival in Leipzig, both in 5.1. The sound was super... | |
| Surround speaker setup: disc player or processor? Thanks for the advice. The front speakers, KEF Reference 1s, are set to large so the preamp sends full range to the bass manager. If I decide to send LFE from the SP3 to a third HGS-15, I think I use what Bryston calls XTRA BASS in which full ra... | |
| If you own quality monitor speakers you want to read this new review What's quasi-anechoic mean? Isn't it more common to specify an environment as being anechoic to some frequency. | |
| Cardas Clear Light or Mogami 2549 XLR I'm using 5' Cardas Clear Lights from the preamp to the high-pass and 7' Clear Lights from the high-pass to the amp. The sound is excellent. I'm going to try substituting 6' and 10' Mogami 2534s, because it would make a neater installation, but ... | |
| Advice Regarding Reel-to-Reel IIRC tape has foibles like print through and the need for carefully aligned heads. We used to make reference speech intelligibility tapes using 1/2" tape at 15 IPS with Ampex 350s. Getting a clean recording took a lot of care. You never fast forwa... | |
| Stacking subs I use a Velodyne SMS-1 bass manager that provides acoustic room correction, and low pass at 80 Hz with a 24 dB/octave slope. I’ve tried high-pass, but it seems to remove a sense of air. That may be peculiar to the Ayre zero feedback design of the ... | |
| First impressions.What multi-channel disc is your favorite IIRC Kal Rubinson recommended an Arts recording of Corelli's Violin Sonatas Op. 5. It's recorded in a church with great surround sound. | |
| Stacking subs Yes, especially adding two. Some argue that high-passing your mains to relieve them of low frequencies handled by the subs duty will enhance their sound. |