jnehma1
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| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @edsky Thanks for the feedback. Unless I am missing something though, there's no difference between what you described with Audirvana and what I can do today with Roon. In either case, the software does the first unfold but since my receiver is no... | |
| All in one Pre/Power/Streaming/DAC or Streaming Preamp/DAC combo ~$2k-4k recommendations NAD M10 does all that and has Dirac for $2,500 list price. A used Devialet expert pro 140. No room correction per se but does compensate for the behavior of specific speakers via the SAM functionality.Lumin M1 is $2k but no room correction. | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @firstonetallguy I have two Marantz receivers in the house, both of which have only ever been used as processors (I use the pre-outs to separate amps). I don't know which DAC is in your 7703 versus the two receivers I have but I connected the PS A... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @rbstehno I'm gravitating in that direction. I already sold the PS Audio DAC but could buy another one. Interesting that their other preamp (the Stellar, I'm not counting the BHK due to budget) is also a preamp/DAC, so I wonder if that one reall... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @iopscrl Perhaps you are right, it just seems silly to buy an 11.2 channel processor with all kinds of fancy processing to end up putting it on Pure Direct mode the entire time and use only 2.1 channels. | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @audiotroy I only used the Marantz in conjunction with the PS Audio DAC since it needed a preamp to be most effective. The NAD runs straight into my amp. Power conditioning is from a PS Audio Quintessence and the power cord is a Pangea AC14XL Mk I... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @jimclarkstereo Thanks, thats 2 votes for the Elac. I'm trying to read a bit more about it but there is practically nothing written on the whole internet. Hard to do any research. It seems interesting, although I will say the aesthetics of the uni... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @audiotroy Fair enough, I appreciate the input and I'm willing to try anything once. But my hesitation that the Nuprime is a panacea is two-fold. First, everyone in the NAD658 owners thread on AVSForum is describing the exact same sound (one guy e... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more Just ran into a brand I never heard of called DEQX. Thought I would share here in case anyone else was interested. They have a couple devices (PreMate Plus and HDP-5) that meet all my must have criteria except MQA, but also have room correction an... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @tom_hankins thanks, another good suggestion to explore. How about an Altair at less than half the cost too? | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @audiotroy Thanks for the feedback. No dealer near me so I ordered it from Crutchfield without any prior demo. I have the NAD running into a 250wpc Musical Fidelity a308cr power amp. I’m using DH Labs Air Matrix interconnects and I don’t recall th... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @larry5729 Interesting. The Arcam SR250 would be the more logical choice since it's a stereo receiver. It doesn't do MQA but does have subwoofer management and Dirac room correction. As you mentioned, I'd have to add a streamer though. | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @dep14 Thanks, never heard of that Elac! I just thought they made speakers. Checking it out now | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @bri14mac Yes that's an option and then I'd just use an HDMI switcher. I've seen one at Amazon that has an optical audio output on the switch itself, that way I don't have to run a new 15 foot optical cable through the wall conduit to my TV. I can... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more @dep14 I would maybe consider the Moon but I'd have to hear it in my home and have the option of returning it if it didn't sound amazing. Alas, there are no dealers within many hundreds of miles of me and I'm not taking a chance on a $5k piece of ... |