ironlung
Responses from ironlung
| Help with finding a new streamer. Despite the positive experience others have had with Aurender products, they should be avoided like the plague by the astute consumer for a number of reasons which I don't think I would be allowed by the forum moderators to elaborate on here. Als... | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? It's been said previously but I don't mind re-iterating - There is no such thing as an "audio grade" network switch... go ahead and try finding any OEM network component supplier who would even think of marketing an 8P8C/RJ45 connector as "audio ... | |
| Complete Proprietary Systems @redwoodaudio The idea that Linn isn't well represented as opposed to other brands mentioned to the OP doesn't really hold water in my personal experience. At the very least it should be recognized as a systems manufacturer, which is what the OP's... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. @hilde45 the OP asked a question which @fiesta75 provided the best, most helpful, and technical explanation as to what the pros are for active systems.Pretty much everyone else's comments were not useful as far as I could tell. Just trying to poin... | |
| analog to digital to analog conversion OP, you are on the right track, be aware that conventionally in most applications the performance of professional A/D convertors (in terms of accurately capturing the analog signal) actually exceed the performance of even the best D/A convertors.T... | |
| Complete Proprietary Systems @n80 Linn have been providing complete systems and were also one of the first HiFi companies to start an award-winning record label. So they are also intimately involved in the studio recording process as a means to engineer better sounding domest... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. OP, you should listen to what @fiesta75 says about this topic and ignore the rest.Active has a lot of limitations. And not only that the complexity is not worth it. For low end to mid fi, may make some sense. But high end will always be passive... | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? just that the original premise of the OP, that players that come without DACs are bad, was incorrect My apologies @mahler123 I misinterpreted your meaning. I though you were indicating that the premise of having a DAC built into/along with a playe... | |
| Streaming transport suggestions I would +1 @jayrossi13 - why not use what the manufacturer of your DAC uses?Also, Bricasti make a highly well regarded network streaming transport of their own:https://bricasti.com/en/consumer/m5.php | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? The only advantage of internal DAC is convenience.Again, people making claims with absolutely no comprehension of what they are talking about.Can you explain to me how increasing the complexity and room for error in a given electrical circuit, and... | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? should i feel comfortable buying Lumin? Is it really a Linn product?It is most definitely not a Linn product. Essentially what they did was see what Linn were doing with the category and their Klimax DS at the time, and attempt to copy it in term... | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? Neg comments about Lumin see abit unfair.You'll have to forgive me, as I was there in the beginning and saw exactly what Lumin did, which is essentially copy-cat Linn (in nearly every respect they could at the time). It's surprising to me that the... | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? but you lose independence that a separate dac allows.Almost every network music player I am aware of (Linn, Naim, SimAudio, etc.) offer the option of an SPDIF output if you really want to use a separate DAC. | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? The premise is flawed. Plenty of great players out there come minus a DAC. Melco, for oneWould you mind elaborating how you can make such a generalized statement with absolutely no explanation?In actual fact, if done properly, integrating the st... | |
| Sonic differences between servers I haven’t an explanation, but have theorized that LDS manages the substantial buffer in the Auralic better than does Roon.When using Roon Qobuz content is requested by the Roon player on the Core, and then multicast to Roon endpoints (like the Aur... |