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| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming to RVpiano - i play both back to back and on my system vastly prefer streaming to physical CDs - typically from my server but also from Tidal/etc. I rip all my CDs ALAC and play on either Mac with Bitperfect and upsampling, or ROON on dedicated 4... | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming There are so many half thoughts and disconnected opinions here as to confuse anyone. A fw comments:1. if your wifi sounds better than Ethernet, you have a problem2. A high res video stream is 3-10 mbps; streaming FLAC music is ~ 0.7 mbps. so 230 ... | |
| Bi-Amping with one amp? Simple answer, as Eric said, is "yes and yes".The question is how much benefit you'd get with 4 more-or-less identical amp channels. Bi Amping has two main benefits that ic an think of offhand:1. Separate the two loads so if one is demanding or n... | |
| Path of signal from turn table to speaker thinking about what you have heard, i’ll add this: in most studios things are immediately digitized and processed in the digital domain, using both digital mixing boards and more often ProTools software.In the studio case, music -- often individua... | |
| Path of signal from turn table to speaker In a nutshell: no and no.Its pretty straightforward ( i wrote "simple" and caught myself). With a few exceptions, and those are recent, the signal path is entirely analog. DACs and ADCs are only used for digital sources - and in 99%+ of cases thos... | |
| I have only come here seeking knowledge... The big question is "what changed?". You mentioned that you moved things a couple of months ago, but you also say this hum began 7 days ago. So I surmise it was all quiet after the move to the basement.There is the possibility that the hear wave m... | |
| Solid states more accurate than tubes? this is such a complex question; beginning with "is accuracy always what we want?" and "on what distortion weighting algorithm do you define accuracy?"bell Labs and H.264/MPEG both championed subjective testing to optimize trade offs. Neither are ... | |
| PS Audio BHK lacking.. if $10k worth of gear cant beat < $1k step #1 is to measure and baseline that it is working even remotely properly. Both performance and settings (eg..; Bias) | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? presumably you are asking "sparate dedicated box vs built in RIAA & amplifier".And (drum roll please) it depends on which one is better designed and executed. I happen to be working on one right now. The circuit, PCB etc will be identical whet... | |
| Why would I need Roon? unless roon is that much better.it is. | |
| Why would I need Roon? 1. user interface2. ROON radio >>> any other smart auto-playlist3. a new way to spend too much money :-)4. Sound quality (depending on whether you are using the integrated Bluesound DAC which is << $99 Schiit and way below many audi... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? It is easier mitch2, when most of the people who throw around terms like imaging and sound-stage, etc. don't understand the underlying mechanisms for how those things manifest.To be fair one can hear without understanding how. We as a species d... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? travelling light. I hear the same joke twice in one way. Who'd guess? | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Who would want a cable that attenuates portions of the audio spectrum that they are trying to conduct from one component to another? That means that if you hear a difference between two interconnects it’s because the two cables in question are ... | |
| This Equipment Recommendation Actually Worked Out Well! Someone asked why an isolation transformer could be beneficial. Its more a question of "how could it NOT be beneficial". They are almost always used in sensitive labs.The electrical engineering answer is noise reduction on the input power. Isolati... |