hickamore
Responses from hickamore
| RIP Lou The advent of cassettes expanded my world forever, all thanks to this man. Still got a drawerful of personally curated, carefully titled 90-minute "playlists" in an easy-access drawer plus a functioning player straight into the preamp.I deem tomor... | |
| HELP! Large speakers fell over during shipping. If there is a shipper who specializes in huge, heavy, yet lovely and delicate furniture-grade loudspeakers, I don't know about it. To those responsible for hands-on physical movement, cargo is cargo. "A mind that's weak and a back that's strong," ... | |
| Check in: How quickly are streamers and servers evolving? An illuminating thread with many viewpoints. Any old streamer will do if the DAC is great? Vice-versa? A question I'm trying to answer for myself, allotting $5k for the experiment. Could turn out the new front end is no better sonically than the ... | |
| Which DAC as a preamp? @shadorneI'm referring to DAC input from streamer, not output to preamp. Output is balanced XLR to the preamp. Input is the RCA coax from the streamer (as of today). | |
| Which DAC as a preamp? @shadorne , @transience, I too expected my very mellow balanced tube preamp to tame the highly analytical M6S for a perfect match. On SOME recordings -- notably those originally analog mastered -- it works splendidly despite subsequent remastering... | |
| Sonics of Streaming Very interesting, thanks. I will also look up other threads possibly addressing the same question. | |
| Sonics of Streaming I meant streamer/transports -- digital-out processors with no integrated DAC. For example, the Aurender N10 versus the N100H. | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Ramsey Lewis Trio, 'Pot Luck,' 1963Robin Lane & the Chartbusters, Eponymous, 1980 ("Don't Wait Til Tomorrow")And ditto to 'Argus' | |
| Which Component Has the Greatest Affect on Low-Level Listening Loudness control, how about that! How quickly we forget they ever existed. Good for Schiit, and good for efficient speakers. Still, aren't we hypothesizing near-field listening and a low noise floor? Because if I want to hear from any distance or... | |
| Stereo systems are like Harleys miller carbon +++ thanks for sharing | |
| HOW MUCH DO NON-AUDIO FACTORS INFLUENCE YOUR AUDIO PURCHASES? Everyone has a given budget. Everyone has a given listening space. Nearly everyone has other uses, and other users, of the same space to be considered. And we all have different aesthetics. For instance, I won't display a black component unless it... | |
| Suggestions for New CD Player A cdp "could be prone to issues." In English, would this mean it might not work? That it might malfunction? Prove unreliable? Bust? Can you imagine David Copperfield being told "don't marry Dora, she could be prone to issues?" | |
| iPad Mini as control device for network player Wow, the news just gets better with every post. @lalitk, you saved me by one day! I somehow thought the current Mini was a recent release. But now will definitely wait until March for the improved version. Agon is such a valuable resource, wish I ... | |
| iPad Mini as control device for network player Sounds like a Mini can handle about any player or app out there, so I won't hesitate. Thanks, melvinj. | |
| iPad Mini as control device for network player If Mini works happily with all mentioned, including Roon, I will proceed forthwith. Thanks crn3371. |