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| Built a DIY butcher block and iron pipe rack over the weekend Thanks everyone for the compliments. I bought the butcher block at Home Depot. 3 - 25x50" pieces and I believe they were Birch. I am sure Maple would be even harder and heavier and even more expensive. I have $330 in just the butcher black. I used... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? In about 2000 I sold my entire system after my daughter was born and gave my sound room in our house at the time for her bedroom. I had Vandersteen 2CE's Audible Illusions Pre Calif audio labs DAC and transport and sold it all for Rotel surround r... | |
| Built a DIY butcher block and iron pipe rack over the weekend ericsch, its 1.5" butcher block so I used a 2" nipple. Drilled a hole using 1 1/16" bit which lets the 3/4" pipe fit very snug inside the hole, in fact you have to tap it through with a hammer. So the nipple stuck out either side of the shelf whic... | |
| Interconnect cable recommendations for Node 2i and DAC Soix, thank you. I will have to do a little more A/B since I still am doing trials of both Tidal and Qobuz. I am running Purist Audio Musaeus for speaker and I have an XLR pair of Kimber Hero on the amp and pre connection. | |
| Ethernet cable question Larry, it may be for your situation. However for me it was not. It would be worth your time to A/B wifi and ethernet. | |
| Ethernet cable question So last night I was listening to my system after just switching the Node 2i over to ethernet the day before (i had been using it on my 5ghz wifi prior to that because the wall plate and jack were not finished at the stereo until the day before). S... | |
| Ethernet cable question Thanks flrun, yes it is 5e in the walls. I ran ethernet to all the rooms where I thought we would need it when our home was being built 8 years ago. | |
| Ethernet cable question flrun I am talking about the jack on the wall to the node 2i. In the wall is Cat 5e. I have my Node 2i setup using ethernet and not wifi. Our Comcast service is 600, we do not have gigabit in our area, we are in farm country. | |
| Interconnect cable recommendations for Node 2i and DAC Thanks everyone, it makes sense. I am listening to Tidal mostly and really enjoy the MQA recordings, so I guess I would need a DAC that does MQA? I will still need slightly longer RCA cables to get the Node or eventual DAC away from the preamp, ri... | |
| Separates to tube integrated @avanti1960 you do have a point. I am happy with the Classe amp, drives the B&W's nicely. The preamp is something I bought when I had a surround system, so maybe just a nice tubed pre will give me the best of both worlds. The RP5 is a little o... | |
| Separates to tube integrated Thanks! I like warm sound, natural, inviting. Soix, I would agree with you on the B&W and solid state, however I’m thinking long term and the B&W may not be long term for me. | |
| Been away for a while, need some help Thank you all for the loads of wonderful info. NKphoto, thank you, although I am retired from the photography business, wedding's did me in after 25 years, now I enjoy a M-F corporate office job and my weekends free. After reading over all the gre... | |
| Been away for a while, need some help Thanks Alexbpm, I did not realize Aries G1 did not have a DAC. At that point I would probably go for the Lumin D2. I have to watch my budget, we are helping our daughter who just started Vet school, plus I want to keep things simple and as much as... | |
| Looking for new universal player/Arcam DV137? Thanks Bob. Hearing that from an owner who has both Denon and Arcam means a lot. I will check out the reviews. | |
| Looking for new universal player/Arcam DV137? Thanks everyone for the response. I know they will all do a fine video job, but I am also very concerned about 2ch audio playback (redbook CD). As I mentioned earlier, I am space limited and really can't do 2 boxes. I saw the Arcam is using Wolfas... |