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| Thoughts and perceptions on the sound quality of Accuphase Digital Products I would only partially agree with the comment above only because of the point that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of their digital out there. When you read about the design of their components though the details are (at least to me) very interesti... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: Venghanza- Motion | |
| Primer on SSD and internal hard drives The cost of storage is very low compared to what it was even 5 years ago. When it comes to disc drives I will say that some disc drives are much quieter than they used to be but I prefer solid state drives. I use two Samsung Evo’s in my server and... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: Niilo Oikari- Falling Through (Ambient Rock) | |
| Anyone else suffering with Qobuz tonight While I haven’t been seeing Agon creeping lately I just went through the same again with Qobuz- have spent the last 45 minutes screwing with the app. Even after removing the app, reinstalling and restarting the unit it just started running a few m... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: Matt Otewill- Weaponize This | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: Held By Trees- Solace (Excellent!) | |
| Off axis cloud placement @orthomead Glad to hear you’ve worked it out! | |
| Anyone else suffering with Qobuz tonight @jnovak 👍 I’m with you on that one but I need the Qobuz for auditioning these long lists of new releases I go through prior to buying. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: The Ancestry Program- Mysticeti Ambassadors Pt 1 (Neo Progressive) | |
| Why Streaming Service Sounds ‘Flat’ vs Tune In /Local FM /Radio Paradise From my perspective it’s the compression. I rarely listen to RP but prefer it to Sirius which sounds worst. On the other hand some channels like Naim Jazz/Classical sound really good. There are occasions when things go in the direction of those cr... | |
| Anyone else suffering with Qobuz tonight Qobuz is generally rock solid but last night was strange- it just dropped. Then it would pop back in after a few minutes and a few seconds later nothing. The wife was streaming movies and internet connections were all good. Just Qobuz. After a hal... | |
| Anyone else suffering with Qobuz tonight I’m in Los Angeles- it’s been going ok for the last 20 minutes but was DOA for about a 1/2 hour here. Thanks for the response! | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: City Of The Lost- Wasteland Guide IV (Prog) | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing If you’re satisfied with your dac I can recommend trying a Lumin U2 Mini (streaming transport). I believe they are running in the $2-2.5K range (used or new). I’m using one in my system and it sounds very nice- no complaints. Others mentioned abov... |