dinov
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| Forced to DIY Yes in terms of audio, I couldn’t get my local guy to fix my McIntosh mr74 tuner, so I bought a kit on eBay and recapped it myself. It now sits proudly as my FM tuner in my main system, New caps, led lights, wood cabinet and all! | |
| Is It Common For Questions About Gear For Sale To Go Unanswered? That’s certainly a red light in my book. | |
| Curious to know your streaming and dac set up and the best recommended streamer under $15k @macdude I finally went with an Esoteric N05 and it’s rocking my world like nothing I’ve ever heard! The DAC is excellent, DSD 11.2, MQA, ROON ready. Life is good.. | |
| Sold a component and bought it back, am I nuts? That’s one way to score a bargain! | |
| Problem with Roon Interesting, I just started using Roon and haven’t noticed any issues but the other day I went to rip a cd and I got this message from ROON wanting to access my ripper dbpoweramp, I granted it and when I went to rip the cd it bombed out after the ... | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? Yes, and you don’t need to go to a store anymore because now they’re on-line in forums like this and on the phone! When that happens I won’t buy anything from them, and in some instances even the product they are selling from anyone. That’s why I ... | |
| Amp Warranty Repair - What's an acceptable timescale for turnaround? This is not warrantee related but nevertheless relevant. I just had one of my MC30s worked on by audio classics that I sent up the first week of January and it’s still there ready to be shipped back this week. I fear it’s going to get worse becaus... | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? I hit the law of diminishing returns within every upgrade! +1 @secretguy | |
| Yes, digital cables matter too Yes they make a huge difference. Coax too…no toslink. I went from an Analysis Plus Digital Oval which is an excellent cable in its own right to a Nordost Valhalla digital when I had my node. It was like someone remove a mussel. The only other issu... | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? @drlou77 I’m in the same boat. I ripped all my cds and sacds of to my NAS and now I have them just sitting in my case. I recently got on Quobuz but still have bought new cds and downloaded new music. At this point Quobuz is so good I’m not sure w... | |
| Should I Keep my Second CD Player? I tend to wind up keeping everything so, that’s my opinion. 😀 | |
| Recommended Server? There are a couple I looked that are just streamers ie: Network players and are very good. Lumin is excellent, Innuos more for usb DACs, and Esoteric which I ended up buying. All are excellent upgrades to the bluesound node. Incredible steps up I ... | |
| Western Electric 12AX7 coming this summer. Love to hear what these tubes sound like. @shawn3997 wow, you bought at the height end of the market on those! | |
| Dac: Old vs New Many older DACs are great sounding but lack certain features or abilities to play some hi-rez files. I see that as more of the issue to upgrade a dac rather than just sound alone. | |
| Is soundstage width a myth? Width is a fundamental part of soundstage and certainly not a myth. This is basic and if you’re not at this level, something’s wrong. Just my two cents. |