jazzman7
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| Thiel Owners Arvin, I think you've expressed the real joy of this hobby. The personal satisfaction of a carefully crafted system, where the pieces have been assembled in a pains taking fashion over time, in many cases over many, many years. The special bliss... | |
| Question on how DAC’s work... larry5729.Please see my earlier post in this thread. Via its digital outs, be it Toslink or Coax, Bluesound kit, even first generation Bluesound kit will unfold MQA all the way to 96K when hooked up to a non MQA DAC.To my knowledge, the current st... | |
| Question on how DAC’s work... Arvin,I have 4 pieces of Bluesound kit in the house, a couple of first generation Node N100 players, a first generation Node N150 streaming Amp and a Node 2i. I’ve used both the N100 and Node 2i pieces with external DACs, in which case both piec... | |
| Thiel Owners oblgnyFWIW ... I too find SQ of Qobuz to be marginally better than Tidal. I have nothing against MQA streamed from Tidal, but there is also something nice about being able to stream in Hi Res at native resolution via Qobuz.I too hope your 2.4 spea... | |
| Digiital source material: what do people do/makes the most sense... My pick would be B. add one streaming service + buy occasional CDs.I did Tidal for about 5 years before more recently switching over to Qobuz I still buy the occasional CD which I then rip as an uncompressed Flac. As you can guess from my ha... | |
| Streaming For Beginners From looking at pictures of the rear of the Lexicon DC-2, you have available both audio RCA style analog inputs as well as digital spidif style digital inputs. The spidif inputs make use of the DC-2's DAC, the audio RCA inputs need to make use of... | |
| Streaming For Beginners +1 for Bluesound Node 2i as a great place to start with the idea of stepping up to a better outboard DAC down the road if you really get into it. But to really take advantage of it, I suggest subscribing to a good lossless streaming service like ... | |
| Thiel Owners Worked for Playback back in 1975-1976 while still in school. We had Cerwin Vegas in the store. Needed next to nothing to light them up. Could power them up with just about anything .... and we did. | |
| Thiel Owners The opposite of Thiel - based on my memory dating back to the 1970's ... how about Cerwin Vega | |
| Move to the next level @gelle,I think that if I was in your shoes I'd start with the DAC, but recognize that the USB Cable which is an important component in and of itself may be a limiting factor. It's all about synergy and everything matters. That being said, all thin... | |
| Move to the next level @gelle with that type of budget my personal first choice would be the combination of the Chord Qutest and the Curious USB Cable for use with the Roon Nucleus. That is what I am using in my main rig. Having said that, your budget gives you plenty o... | |
| Move to the next level @gelle what is your budget and what are you currently using for a USB Cable. | |
| Move to the next level @bruce19, I’ll attempt to answer your questions one at a time.There is a fair amount of overlap when it comes to servers, streamers, network bridges, and players. But a fair amount of the functionality of the hardware pretty much comes down to the... | |
| Move to the next level What I’m running with right now in my system would fall within your budget. Roon Nucleus feeding Chord Qutest DAC via Curious USB Cable. The Nucleus has a bay which can be fitted with an SSD or HDD such that it could function as your server. At fu... | |
| What sacd/cd transports have an aes/ebu output? Thanks Bryston's BCD-1 and BCD-3 redbook CD players.Emotiva's ERC-4.I'm sure there are others, but these are ones that I know of. |