jbuhl
Responses from jbuhl
| Benefit of a Newer (Used) DAC - "Bang for the Buck?" The Wadia 321 and di322 can be had for a song and are a purdy good value. Of course Wadia is no longer but support is available. | |
| Best Digital Music Server I would try and look at a Bryston BDP-2 (audition). The new 3s are crazy expensive. But the 2 can be had for budget. I just got the little Pi unit and cant believe how good the SQ is. Manic Moose interface is pretty lame though :(. Only supp... | |
| Colapse to Hegel Just tested with the Balanced connections (Wadia 321 --> Rost) . Dang, The little Rost came alive. Sheesh wanna am I gonna do now ? Sigh. | |
| Cambridge Audio CXC Transport Question I had an older Sony CD/DVD player that I was using as a transport and I demoed a CXC and didnt really get a noticeable bump in SQ so I just kept the Sony. But about a year later the Sony crapped out. So I purchased a Bryston BOT-1 transport to ... | |
| Colapse to Hegel Almost finished with the Demo on the Rost. Very impressive little 50W amp. I played music through it for 24 hours before I started listening. Very pleasing high quality sound from an entry level integrated. I used my Wadia 321 streaming (Qobuz,... | |
| Integrated Amp Question for a Newbie to the Forum I am in-home demoing the Hegel Rost now and I am total impressed with the sound quality of this little integrated. | |
| what is the advantage of having a Roon core that's not on your computer? +1 on the SGC ST. I moved my Roon Core off a iMAC to the ST inside the gear rack. Simple dedicated box dedicated to running the core. No more problems with the iMAC patches causing issues. | |
| Colapse to Hegel I guess I forgot to mention budget constraints. The Krell is out of bounds. Although the LD has mentioned the Simaudio Ace. The 2 contenders so far are Hegel and the Budget stretching SimAudio Ace. | |
| DAC/Preamp/Amp Recommendations Correction: The standard Moon Ace may not be Roon ready. So you could do and SGC package like this that gets you a renderer. https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/audio-server/products/premier-server-player-combo-son...Should still hav... | |
| DAC/Preamp/Amp Recommendations If you only stream and don’t need the CD ripper you might consider this https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/audio-server/products/sonictransporter-i5 add an LPS and you should have a roon platform for less than $1.5KThen consider Simaud... | |
| Colapse to Hegel @cleathinker. Yes that was one of about 6 definitions "fold into a more compact form". Also it was a play on REMs 2011 album Collapse Into Now. | |
| Colapse to Hegel @roxy54 I got separates (dac,pre,amp) collapse it all down to integrated. | |
| Colapse to Hegel After further research , proly forgo the Rost and move right to the H90 | |
| wadia 781i Let us now how the experience is. My neighbor and I both have 321 DACS and I plan on keeping mine for awhile. So would be interested to know. I actually called them last year just to chat and got the warm fuzzy. | |
| wadia 781i I think there is a supplier in CA that picked up the spare parts. If you call support on the wadia website I think they will give you the number. |