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| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: An Encore Gaz Coombs- Turn The Car Around @jerryg123 Finally listening to it- This is really good! | |
| upgrade player or use modified oppo bdp 105 as transport There are two PS Audio Units currently listed on Agon- perfect wave dac and SACD player at roughly $8.5K for both. You shouldn’t have to wait long to find these on the used market- there is a lot of it out there! | |
| How much should I spend on a new DAC What sources are you using for music playback? | |
| Streamer for mostly Qobuz with volume control The Lumin streamer with “Leedh Processing” is supposed to help mitigate some of the digital artifacts seen when controlling volume digitally (as @mike_in_nc notes). Regardless- I would always prefer to run at full output and let the preamp do the ... | |
| Streamer for mostly Qobuz with volume control I’m currently using the Lumin U2 and it’s built with their “Leedh Processing” which acts as a volume control. It’s one of those setups where you define a min/max range between it and the downstream devices and allows you to vary the output between... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Now Playing: Kim Churchill- Dawn Sounds | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @jerryg123 How is the Gaz Coombs release? Had that on my list for tonight but haven’t got there yet. | |
| diffuser or absorption panels, which would you choose? Are you going for the “padded room” look? | |
| Lumin T2 vs. Oppo 205 @thisisme I own a bdp105-d and used to use it as a player but the sound reproduction of the unit wore me out- to bright/edgy and led to listening fatigue. My experience with the 203 was the same (as you’ve mentioned) and as Oppo stayed with the ... | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... Did you report this to Kenjit? | |
| Baffled and Frustrated: Streaming/DAC Sound Issues @brewerslaw I’m not sure if this will be the equivalent of what you’re experiencing as I haven’t heard your setup BUT my dac developed an issue after a couple of years where there was audible distortion when certain tracks were played. It wasn’t... | |
| Jean Sibelius Recordings @mahler123 You do realize that in Classical Music there tend to be multiple recordings by different performers of the same piece of music. Ha! Believe me- I do. I grew up playing music and attended Musicians Institute while in my teens. I’ve ... | |
| Jean Sibelius Recordings @mahler123 I was wondering what format you use the most for listening. I was able to find this on Qobuz (24/96 FLAC) and for the most part is sounded very good with proper dynamics. There was one thing that continually drew my attention away fro... | |
| Jean Sibelius Recordings @mahler123 Although I’ve listened to classical music on our local station KUSC I’ve never really taken the time to become that knowledgeable in the genre- this is completely new to me! After reading this thread I was intrigued so I decided to l... | |
| RIP Jeff Beck Jeff Beck was such an amazing guitarist and his influence will continue to ripple throughout the world of music for many years to come. I’ve worn through many copies of his work over the years and still listen to it frequently to this day. I’m th... |