jazzman7
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| 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. | |
| What does Roon make in SQ ( Sound Quality) when inserted in my system? As a Tidal user, Roon will perform the first unfold of MQA material, which can get you as far as 96Khz with MQA material. | |
| Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback? For Melco (and I believe for Innous as well) a good part of the game is jitter reduction. There is both an ethernet line in as well as an ethernet player port out. Everything gets reclocked by the Melco. So in effect devices such as the Melco func... | |
| Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback? I have been using a Melco N1A as my NAS for the last 2+ years now, and it definitely makes for better SQ than when the music I played was stored on a WD My Cloud or Seagate Backup Plus device.So in my experience, the quality of the storage impleme... | |
| Would a stand alone dac help, and how much? The simple answer is yes. And again yes, a Bluesound Node 2i would be a good way to go. But even if you just stick with the Sonos, to take advantage of a better DAC really need to subscribe to a streaming service that streams at CD or better qual... |