ejr1953
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| What are your top three live concerts of all time? 1. Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Symphony Hall, Boston.2. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Requiem (Mozart), Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.3. Bruce Springsteen, early/mi... | |
| Greenville, SC My wife and I are shopping for our "retirement home" in or near Asheville, NC. I haven't found much in the way of audio dealers and have yet to find an audio club in the area. | |
| Turning MQA off Tidal I have a PS Audio DirectStream DAC, which like your Chord, doesn't do MQA, and as well use Roon (on their Nucleus Plus streaming server).A while back, probably a few prior versions of the Roon core back, when I'd play an MQA tune and have Roon do ... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service My nephew has worked for Amazon for years, presently working on some "top secret" stuff with one of their R&D labs.I sent him an email, with the Roon links, so if he knows someone who works over in the Amazon Music HD group, he (hopefully) wil... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service My hope is that Roon partners with Amazon's Hi-Res group and offers it, if they do, I'll try it out...and probably terminate my Qobuz and Tidal subscriptions. | |
| McIntosh MC2152 power amp technical question I have owned several McIntosh pieces over the years and have found their service and support to be very good...though I haven't had many reasons to contact them.As for paying for repairs, whenever I've purchased pre-owned equipment, I would never ... | |
| Qobuz I used my free one-month trial using the Windows app, and it had serious problems, apparently known to Qobuz.Fast forward a few months and the arrival of a new Roon Nucleus Plus streaming server. I signed up for Qobuz again and am hooked. I have... | |
| Have I gotten complacent? I had a similar path, on a tear for about five years, upgrading this, replacing that, but lately the pace of changes has come to a crawl!I did purchase a Roon Nucleus Plus server a few months ago, the only change I'd made in a long time, over a ye... | |
| Wow! Hard to believe how Good this sounds! My wife and I are close to signing a contract to have a custom home built, one with a "bonus room" for my audio system.When the time comes for us to prepare our current home to put on the market, I'll be boxing up all my equipment, removing the 10... | |
| Qobuz. hgeifman,Glad you got your internet access sorted out. Streaming music takes WAY less bandwidth than streaming video.We have Comcast where I live and it seems that someone has too much time on their hands, have been randomly destroying the orbs b... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? OK, I'm probably going to need a flack jacket, but here it is!One of my musician friends came over and listened for a while and before he left said "I just love the sound of those McIntosh tube amps"...but my MC452 is solid state! | |
| PS Audio Revises Marketing to a Direct Sales Only Model It seems that there are fewer and fewer "brick and mortar" high end audio shops and many of them have branched out into other things to stay current.I have been a PS Audio customer since I bought the DirectStream DAC, just after it was introduced.... | |
| North Carolina Audio Club My wife and I live in the DC/Baltimore area and last November were blessed with the arrival of our first grandchild, who lives in Asheville. We've been scoping out the Asheville/Hendersonville area as a possible area to purchase that "retirement ... | |
| Sopra N°2 I was fortunate to receive one of the first pair of Sopra No2's to arrive stateside, and I am still smitten.I drive them with a McIntosh MC452 solid state power amp, and McIntosh C2500 tube preamp...and have a pair of JL F113V2 sub woofers, as the... | |
| Looking for SS power amp for... I have been enjoying driving a pair of Focal Sopra No2's with a McIntosh MC452 for about three years now and I do believe that the McIntosh amps with autoformers on the output stage pair really well with those Focal tweeters...so, I'd second the n... |