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| Is Magnepan is coming out with it's own amplifier yzfr1mike,Is you 10b sub for sale? | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal To Steakster,===========Out of curiosity, I just played from Tidal:- Biko (Peter Gabriel)- Dear Rosemary (Foo Fighters)- Summertime (Ella & Louis)On my system, everything sounds fine - even the specific passages that you mention. This is a res... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal This is an old thread but I received great help from many members and I would like to document my findings over the last month.A. I kept contradicting myself when explaining symptoms (which was not helping members to recommend solutions). What see... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Steakster,"In my experience, the symptoms are easiest to detect in:HF:- High notes that sound shrill, etched, glary, etc. This is often heard with vocalists who belt out high notes. - Notes in the upper register of the piano that sound unnaturally... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Many revelations tonight… i asked my spouse and my youngest daughter (both very musically inclined) to validate if they hear the same issue as I do. Three test tracks we focusec on : opening voice on Biko (Melt, Peter Gabriel), opening guitar on D... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Thanks Prpixels. But i believe it is two different ROCK. The rock i am talking about means Roon Optimized Core Kit, which is different fron the Rock64 from Linux.By the way, i previous said my nuc was a gen 7 - my bad, it is a gen 8 (7I7DNKE). I ... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal When i mentioned that i am 99% satisfied, here is an example of the 1% off: on the Tidal track Summertime from Ella and Louis, at the beginning just before hearing the trumpet, you can hear the violon ensemble. Those violons still sound distorded ... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Prpixel, the laptop is Windows 10 and i am using a generic usb driver to feed the ifi. Now that the NUC is downstair, the whole thing has seriously improved. Yesterday i ordered a low noise linear power supply for the NUC. I like your suggestio... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Prpixel, thanks for tor the suggestions. Since i am using ROCK as OS, i have no control on usb driver. As for my temporary solution (spouse laptop) i am using a generic driver.I am with you about the configuration. Something most be wrong but i... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Steakster, i am for sure not optimizing the management of power feeding the different components. Full disclosure, i am an electrical engineer and i see risks in my curreng setup. To challenge is one can only speculate the impact of a not so go... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Thank you all for your support and suggestions | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Possibly my last update for a while. An acceptable setup seems to be the NUC with roon core (and rock) in my server room (ok, my hvac room) with the addition of an end point. I am currently using my spouse laptop operating on battery as end point.... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Thanks Djones51.Fresh update. I have degradetion when i install the NUC with ROON. My next step is to re-locate the NUC outside the listening room and to convert my laptop as a roon end point. However, i am now just enjoying my music - it has b... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal Short update. I am streaming Tidal outside ROON on my laptop using battery (no wall wart) but ethernet connected, using the audio alchemy dac and the amps. 100% fine 😁. Next step is to connect the NUC and ROON. | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal To gs5556, they are both off but thanks for the suggestion.To prpixel, I am using ROON ROCK which is Linux based. My BIOS is the most recent version.This morning i am starting fresh: i will use my previous setup (that was working just fine), dir... |