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| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? As an experiment you can put some FLAC or HiRes files on a USB stick and play from that during the times when you are getting worse quality. If that does not suffer from the quality issues you know it is likely not the power but is your connectio... | |
| Streaming upgrade from Cambridge Audio cxn v2 Thanks a lot for the input. I must say I'm surprised that many of you are suggesting an expensive streamer rather than a cheap streamer and an expensive dac: if the dac has a reasonable sized buffer, shouldn't it make up for the weakness in the s... | |
| Streaming upgrade from Cambridge Audio cxn v2 Thank you all so much for the suggestions. I'll definitely explore separates but the space considerations may make that difficult (but not impossible). Thanks also for the roon suggestion; I will do at least the trial and see if that helps. bli... | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? Several have already mentioned Natural Sounds in Framingham; +1 to them. I was in town to visit family and had some time to kill. So I walked into the store and told them: I was from out of town and thus, it was highly unlikely that I would buy ... | |
| mcontrol: change in behavior? Thanks! I guess I thought this was new because: 1. Recently the mcontrol app has been consuming a lot of battery on my phone 2. When my phone receives a notification, it actually pauses the music for a moment on my Ayre So at least some beh... | |
| Best Mesh WiFi System I've had the Google wifi since it came out and it works wonderfully though my home and back yard. This has since been superseded by Nest Wifi which adds better range but no ethernet port on the nodes. I have 40+ devices (including music streamers... | |
| How hot does the Ayre EX-8 2.0 Integrated Amplifier get? I am doing two at the back and one in front. I doubt it makes any difference in the sound but it likely helps with cooling and lifts my amp up so that its IR sensor peeks out through the opening on my cabinet door (it has horizontal slats) which ... | |
| How hot does the Ayre EX-8 2.0 Integrated Amplifier get? My EX-8 is also in a cabinet with the back completely shut and the door with wood slats (so ~50% open). I use the Myrtle blocks.Before the v 2.0 update, the back part of the amp would get up to 107F (this was a strip at the back bottom); the rest... | |
| What Does Ayre Sound Like? I have the ayre ex-8 and love it. I got my ex-8 upgraded to 2.0 and since that upgrade I do not feel that the base is lean anymore (but did feel that it was lean before the upgrade). | |
| Spectral or Ayre (combo) I have two Ayre amps and they both sound wonderful. While that alone is enough to consider Ayre, there is much more. The people at Ayre are great and respond quickly to any and all questions. Their philosophy for offering upgrades is also incredi... | |
| How loud are you typically listening? 50 to 65 ---which is really quiet compared to most!But doesn't it depend on the ambient noise in the room? E.g., I most likely listen louder in the car because the noise floor is much higher (but honestly I've never measured the sound level while... | |
| Ayre AX5 Twenty I have both the Ayre AX-5 Twenty and EX-8. The EX-8 is an outstanding system in a box and is particularly suitable when space is tight (as is the case in my cabinet in the family room).The AX-5 Twenty shares the same qualities as the EX-8 but is ... | |
| Should I explore balanced cables to connect my amp to dac? Thanks mike_in_nc and tweak1 for the advice.tweak1: any cable recommendations from you? | |
| Integrated amp suggestion for Sonus Faber Olympica 2 @arafiq you can get the Ayre EX-8 as a "plain integrated amp" also. However, the DAC is very good and unless you have a very good DAC it is worth getting it with the amp.While it was not my explicit goal when I bought it (I was totally open to bu... | |
| Integrated amp suggestion for Sonus Faber Olympica 2 I use an Ayre EX8 integrated with my Olympica 2 and love the sound. The amp has no difficulty driving the speakers to a painfully loud volume in my room which is larger than the OP. |