jbuhl
Responses from jbuhl
| Sonus Faber Sonetto V’s Thoughts Requested I listened to them in a couple of different environments and finally settled on Focal 936’s which were also offered by my dealer in a similar price range. These are actually much less now as they have been supplanted by the Evo X series. Yep ,... | |
| Value of a preamp? Fair number of preamp lauding threads on here. A few more people praising their dacs volume control sans external pre. "Richness" was the term used that I thought described it best, in my system anyway. | |
| Sub $2,000 Integrated Amp Recommendations Research Rogue Sphinx | |
| Sonus Faber Sonetto V’s Thoughts Requested @jbuhl – Thank you for your input. I can’t help but wonder how the V’s might have been a better match to compare, but I believe the Focals mentioned are a bit cheaper, so hmmm. The IIIs & the 926s were the same price from my dealer was the... | |
| Roon is snappy responsive now Roon is very flexible in how its sound can be tweaked including applying user defined EQ and/or DSP. DSP is perhaps the feature now that I could least live without. I use the DSP for room correction and canned DSP convolution filters with headpho... | |
| Qobuz Issues? They might have broke it with an update. One user reported rolling back to a previous version via testflight and got it working. | |
| Qobuz Issues? Mexico was out as well. Be interesting to know if they have hardware installations that are partitioned by region internally. Have trouble with a server room and lose specific regions across the globe | |
| Qobuz Issues? Must be regionalized outage. Fair number of complaints over on reddit/qobuz about it but I been running fine through roon and the qobuz app all day. num saying | |
| Roon is snappy responsive now I run the core on a SonicTransport and its been really reliable. The iPad/iPhone app does appear to be a bit snappier now. I have my stored files hanging off the Bryston endpoint and jump back over there to play those. SQ on the Bryston might be a... | |
| Sonus Faber Sonetto V’s Thoughts Requested I demoed the Sonetto III vs Focal 926 in my room at the same time. Although the SF we better at vocal and strings the Focals won out overall. The thing I could not get over with the SF was the cheesy plastic base and how they mounted to the cabin... | |
| Room Treatment suppliers Vicoustics! that was the one I was thinking. Thanks for all the responses. | |
| Comparing streamer/DACs between $5-10k what @overthemoon said | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp I will stick with the "plug and play" comment. This unit can stream Qobuz and is also Roon ready in case you decide to go that route. Might have to look in the used market to get it under $20K https://www.stereophile.com/content/mark-levinson-... | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp Scope creep is real | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp The Moon 791 might be worth considering as a tidy single unit solution. Here is a video on ROON walk through |