jjss49
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| Can my Roon Nucleus be used with a non-Roon-ready DAC? while it will work, running a dac directly out of the usb port of the roon nucleus is not advised if sound quality is a priority (if it isn't, one must ask why pursue all this roon stuff anyways, right?) there is a whole industry segment on upgra... | |
| Your thoughts on my quest for new speakers many many good speakers out there like many great chefs and restaurants challenge is to pick the one that pleases you, get it really right in the room, and fed and driven right with upstream gear... fun/challenging part is that it is an iterativ... | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? its funny there was a thread not long ago about what is an audiophile vs a music lover... think the answer is right here | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? @ghasley i will bet my system sounds at least as good as yours playing an 800 hz tone... in fact, my friends and i listened all weekend to 100 hz, 800 hz, 1.3 khz and 2 khz tones and we chose the best cables and room positioning, we have it opti... | |
| Upgrade path question with $2k to spend That amp looks like it kicks ass. 300 WPC and 0.005% THD? uh oh.... 🙄 | |
| Can my Roon Nucleus be used with a non-Roon-ready DAC? a dac doesn't need to be roon ready but a streamer does... roon feeds streamer (roon endpoint) which in turn feed dac (bear in mind some units combine the streamer and the dac in one box, but they are two different functions being performed in t... | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? a great system is a system that plays the music the owner likes to listen to beautifully... where different recordings have different qualities, it is up to the owner to construct the system to handle the range of variation ... numerous ways to me... | |
| Upgrade path question with $2k to spend lyngdorf tdai 1120 | |
| What are you streaming tonight? jaco by brian bromberg 👌 | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? wine and thc brownies are so much effective than an expensive hifi to make suck-ey recordings sound really awesome... (or so i have heard...) 🤣😂😅😆 | |
| Your thoughts on my quest for new speakers op a few thoughts 1) using airplay thru the h160 hurts sound quality 2) bluesound node 3 built-in dac is no better than h160 internal dac connected by airplay, but the node has a good digital output (spdif and usb) which most use to drive bette... | |
| Any good video sites out there? think i mentioned this in an earlier post in the now deleted thread clickbait is a fact of life these days, any online info source seeking eyeballs engage in the practice, just some content providers are more egregious than others - economics of ... | |
| Just installed a bluesound node 2i , quality not so good the nodes have been out there for quite a while, yet folks who claim to be audiophiles, come here and post, still lack an understanding of that the thing is... | |
| Why do folks spend more on electronics than on speakers? here is some perspective 40 years professional experience speakers determine the overall level of what you can acchieve the electronics and source will derive what the speakers are capable of great speakers can not compensate for difficiencie... | |
| ATC or Audio Note (2-way) +1 @ghasley atc and audio note are the among the last speakers i would ever consider ’modding’ but hey its a hobby so peeps gonna do what they wanna do to be happy... who are we to judge |