jbuhl
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| Tube preamp options I heard the octave audio HP 300 SE at RMAF. Really nice equipment. Had it paired with the own amp and some Dynaudio towers. Sweat sound. | |
| Integrated for Streaming Bryston B135 over on TMR for around 50% off retail. Bryston offers a DAC module for that as an upgrade. You could add a Sonore Micro Rendu as your endpoint. Might be able to stuff all that into you budget and clean up the boxes and get good ... | |
| Tube Rolling for Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum 2 12AU7 matched Mullards from Andy's Tube Services here. I been meaning to call him and maybe try something new but the Mullards been sounding good for years. | |
| Streaming What is your budget? Do you have ethernet cable to your rig or Wifi? What is the CD make and model? CD player will have a DAC and if it has digital in you can use that. Otherwise get a streamer with a DAC. | |
| Considering Towers in the $3000 range You can view buying used as in home addition. I bought a pair of Quads and compared them against my existing Focals before I moved the Quads on down the road. Didn't have any trouble selling them. You can try 2 or 3 pair and still save money ov... | |
| Considering Towers in the $3000 range Pair of Totem Acoustic Forest Signature on here for $2.9K. | |
| Simaudio 400m / 860A vs PS Audio BHK250 @sdw @jbuhl I like how this turned into a PS Audio thread. Lol. I was hoping to go for the Moon gear but for $3k less I guess I could give the M1200’s a try. Full disclosure. I live just down the street from PS Audio and on occasion run into Pa... | |
| Simaudio 400m / 860A vs PS Audio BHK250 Call up PS Audio they will let you try/buy their class D mono blocks and you can test head to head with the BHK. I had the S300 for several years and it sounded great and ran very cool. Only sold it because I wanted to try class A/B and I found ... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming The SGC/ST like most of this stuff was an incremental bump and got things close enough to MPD that I stayed with Roon. Roon also opens things up for sprinkling other low cost endpoints around the house like old Sonos zp90s that can be picked up ... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming Yeah a Small Green Computer Sonic Transport (SGC ST). Runs bit calmer, way more stripped down. Don't have to worry about all the Mac updates and baggage that platform brings along. Stability is rock solid as well (so far) and support is good.... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming Yeah I tested on a MAC mini. After reading here and other places I finally took a leap of faith and put the core on a dedicated host (SGC ST i5) sitting at the rig and also hard wired to the Mesh Node. Made enough difference that I stuck with ROO... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming ’Upgrading to a mesh network and having the Pi connected directly to a node’. It’s moot point if your Pi is hardwired ethernet. Mesh networks use nodes that you place around your house. They create an improved network environment with a sing... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming I also have Qobuz-->Bryston Pi. I also think spinning a CD on a BOT-1or playing files sound a tiny bit better and I mean tiny. Upgrading to a mesh network and having the Pi connected directly to a node and upgrading my cable reduced the margin ... | |
| Better music player alternative to Mac Air / laptop Travel similar road as @ghdprentice. Still buy vinyl .....rarely. have hundreds of ripped CDs and play them ......rarely. Stream most of the time. | |
| First Streamer... Moon Neo Mind over on USaudiomart for $750. Also a Bryston BDP3 over there as well. Bryston BDP on here for around $700 and they sound great. Bryston interface is a bit spartan but their units sound good and work as Roon endpoints as well |