jbuhl
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| Music Server Advice This: Check out SmallGreenComputer.com. I have been using their products, and the Sonore products they sell for years. Very reliable, easy to use, and fantastic support from Andrew. IMHO, they offer great value by keeping their casework simpl... | |
| Good Suggestions for Tube Amps under 6k +1 on The Octave To consider: Rogue Audio Pharaoh II integrated (Tube/Hypex hybrid) Rogue Audion RP-1 with PS Audio class D M700 Mono Blocks Modwright KWH225i Hybrid integrated on on usaudiomart Tubed pre of choice around $2K with used Bryst... | |
| Warmer class D amps for magnepan? I think PSAudio has a try and buy on their class D offerings. | |
| Bang for the buck I think the Quad S series speakers are good value on the used market. There is a pair of S-5 on here for $2.2K. brand new in box | |
| Rogue Audio. Reliability issues? Anyone? I have had an RP-1 for years. At about 2 years had to replace stock tubes. Then about 5 years had to send it in and have the front control panel board replaced as volume control went wonky. Proly $300 total. They turned it around promptly. s... | |
| Giving in to my weaknesses Yeah my hearing F’d up as well. Gonna be 65 in a few months. I have 3 systems and may be downsizing to one small system sooner than later. But as jacked up as I am I can still discern my AV integrated pales in comparison to my dedicated A/B amp an... | |
| What to do? I am with the other guys. The BDP-3 has one ethernet port for you network traffic coming in. 2 digital outputs for for traffic to DAC. So your only option is from extender to BDP, I do believe. | |
| Is a home theater even worth it or doable? The answer is NO. 90% of sound quality depends on your room - 95% of people don't have such a special room...(non-residential rectangular room with concrete or brick walls, heavy and hard wooden floor, sloped ceiling)... Plasma TV is the most ... | |
| My Oppo 105 finally bricked. Streamer suggestions? Check over on TMRaudio , they got several streamers recommended here in your price range. ( Cambridge & Bluesound) Alternatively look for a Bryston BDP pi. Spartan interface, out of production, hard to find but built on the Raspberry Pi plat... | |
| Is a home theater even worth it or doable? I will tell my (2 channel guy) story: Dont watch much TV. Just had a tele on the wall and couple crappy B&W wall mount speakers. Then I added a Velodyne Micro Vee sub. wow much improvement. New GF likes streaming movies and with all the new ... | |
| wyred4sound Sonos Port - garbled noise I just fired up my old W4S ZP90 Roon endpoint and it still working. I talked to W4S and they said they still do the mods on the old ZP90s. YOu can pick those things up used for nearly nothing on used market. Make great Roon endpoints especia... | |
| Adding a Dac and Stresmer I will say it again: you can build a nice ROON+DAC setup for $5K | |
| wyred4sound Sonos Port - garbled noise Is it doing it both on wifi and wired? I had a regular ZP 90 network wifi card die but wired portion still works fine. Got a old ZP90 with W4S mode still going strong after all these years. Also you could open a case with Sonos and see if th... | |
| Streamer/server newbie I have the above setup in one system and I also have a Lumin U1 streamer in my main system. The upgrades to DAC amp and speakers are so much more bang for the buck then the small improvement in sound by spending $5k more on U1 streamer...don’t ge... | |
| Streamer/server newbie For $5K you could build a nice Roon server and endpoint. |