jbuhl
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| Moving into an apartment with wood joist floors - worried about neighbors hearing Yep, show up on front door of lower unit with a bottle of good wine. Explain how you love this building/unit , want to be a good neighbor but you suffer from Audiophilia....😎 | |
| Moving into an apartment with wood joist floors - worried about neighbors hearing Got a buddy who lives in a nearly 100 year old building with wood floors. He is very careful about sound because it is so easy to disturb the unit below. He uses bookshelf speakers. If it were me I would set up first and contact the people in th... | |
| DAC Suggestions Explore: Bryston BDA-3 (made in Canada) Wyred4Sound DAC-2v2SE Mcintosh MDA200 ( has replacable dac module) I have only had experience with Byrston streamers but the support is good. Wyred4sound support good as well. I have one of their moded ... | |
| Help me pick a Dac you could Also do a ROON config: SGC ST i5 for the core:$1.2k PS Audio Airlens:$2K 1 year Roon Subscription:$150 dump the rest of the budget on cableing. | |
| DAC suggestions for a reasonably modest system Couple Wadia 321s on here for $1.7K. Good implementation of ESS 916 chip. balanced , multiple inputs. negative: out of production and large foot print. | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? Regarding DSL: I am on DSL from Century link. There is a fiber trunc 2 blocks from my house from there its phone line to house. I pay for 50 Mbps and just tested it and I am getting around 60 Mbps down load. Only outage I have ever had is when squ... | |
| Looking for integrated solid state amp for daily usage I like these previous suggestions Hegel Wyred4sound PS Audio Stellar Strada integrated is on Closeout sale. Interesting comment about the NAD. I had a an NAD pre and amp at one time and the older it got the worse its sounded. Maybe it was j... | |
| New streamer needed I be the odd man out and suggest taking a look at the Bryston BDP-3. One over on USAudiomart for $2k | |
| Which Vintage CD Player To Use As A Transport? Is Bulletproof and $100 mutually exclusive? I had an old Sony DVD player that sound great as a transport, just could not believe that thing sounded as good as it did. but ultimately like all cheap players it died. Splurgitate and spend $350 on... | |
| Roon Endpoint Streamers - Direct Comparisons between Current Offerings? FWIW: When I first delved into ROON. Th core was iMAC hosted with a BDP pi endpoint. The ROON soundstage was pancake flat vs the BDP/MPD standalone stream of Qobuz and RadioParadise @Redbook resolution. Then I Made a few improvements to the netwo... | |
| Roon Endpoint Streamers - Direct Comparisons between Current Offerings? Otherwise, I respectfully suggest you start a new thread for a different price range. No thank you. | |
| 5k budget - streamer for Technics SU-R1000 ? research the Moon 280D. Comes with a DAC which might be an upgrade over the R1000 implementation. Moon's Mind 2 streamer is DACless, Save you about $2k for a external DAC | |
| Seeking Budget CD Player Suggestions Find a used Cambridge audio CXC transport and add a Shiit Modi for $129 https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650071387-cambridge-cxc-cd-transport-clean-condition/ | |
| Roon Endpoint Streamers - Direct Comparisons between Current Offerings? Might consider expanding inquiries to include (in the $2k to $5K) : Bryston BDP-3, $4.5k PS Audio Airlens, $2k Moon Mind 2, $2k+ Note: I use the now discontinued Bryston BDP pi as an endpoint and its been rock solid in that capacity and a ... | |
| Need suggestions on a streaming solution! Queue the Blue Sound recommendations. An alternative to the BS is the Bryston BDP-3. Spartan interface to Qobuz but the SQ is right up there and build quality is top notch. Used can be found for <$2K. The interface is web based so you... |