hickamore
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| Stereo Times 2024 MOST WANTED COMPONENTS List @ozzy62 Sadly, even the serious academic journals go unedited these days. Outside The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Atlantic, it's word salad anarchy out there. | |
| Aurender a1000 impressions vs Eversolo A6 and Cambridge Cxn100 Given the quality of your amplification and speakers, I'm surprised you are looking at mid-fi network players rather than separates. A streamer such as the Aurender N200, paired with a DAC of equal quality (there are good A'gon threads on this) WO... | |
| Needing DAC Advice If you are running the Freya+ in passive mode then you are using the wrong Schiit. In that price range, you should switch to the Kara, a newer model that gives a much fuller presentation in the midrange than Kara+ in passive. | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. The three that completely nailed me at first hearing, top of mind at this moment, in chronological order Love, Forever Changes Fleetwood Mac, Eponymous, 1975 Counting Crows, August and Everything After | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing @carlsbad2 Appreciate the clarification, thx. | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing @erik_squires Many of us feel power amps sound best when plugged directly into the wall outlets. But these amps tend to have good internal protection. Obviously whole house surge protection would help shield other costly appliances, but how valuab... | |
| DAC for Aurender N200 @blisshifi Is USB connection superior to coax in this pairing? And would you advise a DDC between? | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" Not impressed by the Jesus myths myself, with which Handel took many liberties, "government upon his shoulders" being a large one. Whose government? The Sanhedrin were having none of that, prevailing on the Romans to kill this dissident, cult-lead... | |
| Legacy Focus SE or PS Audio FR20 I own and have used the Legacy Signature SEs for many years now and love them for my room and parity with amp. That said, the Focus SEs definitely breathe easier -- a second midrange driver and 12" vs 10" dual subs assure that. Smaller room, small... | |
| Auarender N10 On Sale Thanks all. Everything I needed to know. | |
| Auarender N10 On Sale Thanks to those who replied. Based on your advice I will stick with the N200 which I have found excellent. | |
| DAC for Aurender N200 @fthompson251 Never posted mine because doing so would be of no value to anyone -- it's a weird room neither worthy nor capable of replication. Also, because I know so little compared to the many experts here, I offer advice only on "beginner" que... | |
| DAC for Aurender N200 @vthokie83 Seems @fthompson251 has essentially the same setup I do (Aurender-Coda-Legacy), so it makes sense that I start with the Denafrips rig offered by @audioman58. Just hope he is still selling these when my left ear has been fixed so I can h... | |
| Room setting: new amp or new speakers? You are getting contradictory information from different sources approaching the problem from different angles. Start with speakers and their placement. You have a lifetime thereafter to audition various streamers, DACs, preamps, amps, and cables... | |
| DAC for Aurender N200 @adasdad Original question was specifically directed to other users of Aurender N200 with experience of various DACs connecting via USB. Got multiple hits for ARC Ref9, T+A DAC200, Denafrips Terminator 15, Bricasti M3. Yes I want musicality, but s... |