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| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please Before I got the QX-5/20 to use with Ethernet, I used USB from iMac to Ayre DX-5 DSD for Roon, with balanced analog to Ayre KX-5/20 preamp. That combination sounded very good. Like so many dictums, "you shouldn’t use USB combining out of a commute... | |
| pre-amps for home theatre....whats your preference? I prefer to use a preamp with by-pass capability with a processor. Use the preamp for stereo music and for the front two channels of surround. I’ve used a Parasound JC-2 BP with a Bryston SP3 and now an Ayre KX-5 Twenty with the SP3. But that may ... | |
| Roots, ie: how did your music/sound/audio life/listening begin? iI suppose it was my favorite aunt's RCA red seal recording of Jose Iturbi playing the Chopan Heroique Polonaise that first got my attention. But it really was a neighbor's JBL C34 rear-loaded corner horn, Gerard changer, and amp with a separate ... | |
| Madrigal Proceed PAV Schematics IIRC I bought my PAV probably in the '80s. It and a matching stereo amp replaced my Marantz 18 receiver. Five of those amps, the PAV, and the 18 are sitting in a rack, unused for decades. The PAV was replaced by a Cary Cinema for HT, then a Par... | |
| Surround setup problem My experience with an ultraSound Roon endpoint that has to be powered up in a specific order with the DAC suggests the intermittent dropouts may have to do with order of starting up the Ayre DX-5 DSD and Bryston SP3. It may be an HDMI handshake is... | |
| Surround setup problem Last night I once again had dropouts with a surge in volume following each dropout. This morning no dropouts no surges. I really don’t understand.Once again, the problem setup is HDMI from Ayre DX-5 DSD to Bryston SP3 with balanced analog from the... | |
| Surround setup problem I bought the cable from Poland. The cable I'm using has endpoints that look very like those of the Nordost cables, It's got some sort of greenish material on the outside, and it's fairly thick. | |
| Surround setup problem I’ve listened many times to a Blu-ray (Thielemann with the Wiener Philharmoniker) of the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th symphony, both in stereo and surround. I always prefer surround. That was as true with my previous setup of Parasound J2 by-pa... | |
| Anyone compared the Cary 303-200 CDP with the Ayre C-5xe? Also C-5xe transport failures? My C-5xeMP has played without fault for years. I had been using a Sony 5400ES and an Esoteric before the Ayre won me over. I use balanced connection to a preamp, currently an Ayre A7e integrated. Although I now mostly listen to Roon files via e... | |
| Surround setup problem I don't know what specifically the HDMI cable is, except it seems much more substantial than the cable it replaces. The sound with Blue-rays, both music and cinema, is superb. I was surprised that a setup aimed at the reproduction of music, Ayre... | |
| Surround setup problem auxinput - The problem was a faulty HDMI cable. HDMI from the Ayre DX-5 DSD disc player to the Bryston SP3 processor that outputs balanced analog to the Ayre KX-5/20 preamp seems to be flawless. The setup awaits only connecting the NAD amps for ... | |
| Surround setup problem I mostly listen to stereo from Roon via ethernet to an Ayre QX-5/20 digital hub.I'll try another HDMI cable.If it's OK to have both the balanced and single-ended inputs to the amp connected, switching between them might be an easy way to select th... | |
| Is it better to have two matched subs or one big_greg -- I agree the Ref 1s image splendidly. I use mine mostly for Roon via ethernet to an Ayre QX-5/20 digital hub with balanced analog to a KX-5/20 preamp and VX-5/20 amp. For surround and movies I add a DX-5 DSD disc player, Bryston SP3 p... | |
| Is it better to have two matched subs or one The Velodyne SMS-1 bass manager shows the in-room response of my KEF Reference 1s to be pretty flat to 30 Hz before sharp roll-off, so it's no surprise the location of jazz bass players is well imaged even without the subs. But the location of ja... | |
| Is it better to have two matched subs or one aubreybobb - By full range do you mean essentially flat to 20 Hz or below? |