dgarretson
Responses from dgarretson
| Help with streaming Tidal's Master tracks I’ve compared many Tidal MQA 24/96 first unfolds of ECM and Blue Note jazz titles to those titles ripped at 16/44.1 from CDs. The Tidal MQA 24/96 versions are superior. | |
| Elvis Costello/Cancer As Costello is on record as considering himself a lapsed Catholic, the God reference is a stretch. I am a big fan, and wish him the best. | |
| CDs Vs LPs 8^( the physical media is only thing of value to me. Everything else (gear) is easily replaced.@ct0517 I said I'll "eventually" sell off the physical media-- meaning sometime before the final curtain... | |
| CDs Vs LPs I’ve been recording vinyl to DSD128 for awhile now. That’s the best of both worlds. The process has stimulated me to raise the quality of both analog and digital front ends. It has led to more care and discipline cleaning vinyl, and increased prec... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Wilco, The Whole Love, and Uncle Tupelo, Still Feel Gone. What a family tree! | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning If not filtered out after each cycle, visible particles definitely settle to the bottom of a US tank, aggregating into long chains of grey fluff. Some remain at the bottom, and some agitate into the middle and upper reaches of the tank during use,... | |
| price of Oppo players threw the roof So bad that I threw up through the roof. | |
| Music Server Recommendation I read a pro review of an Ayre DAC someplace(which IIRC was the first DAC to market with a native Ethernet interface), in which the reviewer preferred the USB input to the Ethernet input. Its likely that a native ethernet interface may have varia... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files Revisiting my hi-res recording of a streamed Tidal master off the digital output of a DAC, it appears that the recorded file survives intact and is playable through Roon, provided that the Tidal version of that album is not tagged to the Roon libr... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files @zyac39 Well, I guess I raised more questions than I answered. Several hours after copying that file into my NAS for replay through the Roon core, the file and its folder mysteriously evaporated! However, it still resides on the PC to which I or... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files I can confirm that a Tidal stream-- including Tidal MQA masters that decode to 24/96-- can be digitally copied from the digital output of a DAC. That's all she wrote... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files I wonder if it’s possible to record the Tidal digital signal off the digital output of my Esoteric DAC as Tidal streams through the DAC in real time. I have a Tascam digital recorder that should be able to pick that up from the DAC's RCA digital o... | |
| Music Server Recommendation @fdemello Another way to look at "a piece optimized for audio" is to separate the "ethernet problem" from the "usb problem." This has been examined on the Computer Audiophile forum, concluding that the ethernet-to-usb conversion and usb regenerati... | |
| Music Server Recommendation I’m hosting the Roon core on a QNAP TVS-882 NAS with an i5 processor that is powerful enough to support Roon DSP engine upsampling. My main audio zone ethernet-to-USB endpoint is top SOtM pieces into an Esoteric K-01X. The QNAP/SOtM combination fa... | |
| The Difficulties in Component "Shootouts" Were both pieces fully warmed up when you compared them? |