jond
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| Thoughts/Advice on replacing a 20 year old system Hi KB may I ask what's in your 20 year old system? Newer can be better but not always and you can add streaming functionality to any analog system. | |
| Node 2i to Lumin D2 using internal DAC Why not just add an outboard Dac to the Node? The switch to Lumin may be a worthwhile improvement but I am personally a fan of separating the streaming and Dac functions. | |
| MyMat Slaw congratulations on your new venture! One question reading here and your ad, what is the material? Or is that proprietary info? | |
| Quality of digital cable from from source to DAC? I haven't dabbled in boutique ethernet cables but I will say you can get a nicer than standard cable with better shielding, metal connectors, and faster transmission for very little money. That's the route I went with a upgraded Cat8 cable. I won'... | |
| chop stick holders. This is the ad I was referring to:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9jgdj-custom-made-cable-elevators-upgraded-version-set-of-10-tw... | |
| Distorded sound with Tidal So it is definitely happening at all resolutions 16/44, 24/96, 24/92, MQA? If so this is a tough one I would have suspected something in your signal chain most likely suspect the Ifi. I had a similar situation a few years back with a faulty W4S Re... | |
| Luxman M 4000 Amp Place a wanted ad? Or contact a Luxman dealer? Or keep watching the listings til you find one. | |
| chop stick holders. There's someone selling homemade cable elevators on here for $59.99 for 10 that seems very reasonable to me. | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung @mozartfan NOS tubes are not snake oil. | |
| I Thought I Had My Speaker Choice Narrowed Down. Maybe Not? To the OP are you able to do any listening? You've mentioned some wildly different sounding speakers in Maggies and Spendor and Kef. You have a nice amp that should be able to drive most speakers but you need to narrow down the sound you like. | |
| I Thought I Had My Speaker Choice Narrowed Down. Maybe Not? @kenjit The speaker industry exists. Case closed. | |
| extremely soft RCA cables I have Auditorium23 interconnects in my system they sound great and are very lightweight and flexible. | |
| Quobuz issues on the Bluos app My Auralic LDS app sorts my favorites in alphabetical order by album name, not sure if that’s what you mean Ozzy? Also I stream both Tidal and Qobuz and my favorites from both are integrated in the same view and all of my favorites are whole album... | |
| Streamer Advice Lumin, Auralic, Innuos Others? It sounds like you have a nice system and are approaching this the right way. I think all your possibles are good choices Auralic is a pioneering company in the streaming biz and makes good stuff, I've run their Aries Mini for the last 3 years and... | |
| Something is missing Are you experiencing the same sound with both sources? I would look at two things your phono amp, the one in your Rotel may not be that good, and as suggested above an external Dac for your Sony. Possibly even look at replacing the Rotel. |