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| Auralic Aries Mini vs Bluesound Node ll vs Sonos Well the Aries mini is here was super easy to setup, and sounds good. Also running on the 5ghz band rather than 2.4ghz not a single dropout yet! Like the lightning ds app also, controlling it with my phone now but should have an ipad mini 2 here t... | |
| Focal Utopia Maestro upgrade I suspect your amp is high current the model name would seem to indicate it doubles again at 2 ohms into 600 watts? Unfortunately the YBA website is pretty bad and gives no specs. I have not heard the Maestros sorry speaking more theoretically, I ... | |
| Obscure bands The eponymous album and Safety in Numbers are faves but its honestly been years since I listened to them. | |
| Obscure bands Crack the Sky is an outstanding band from Baltimore that never quite made it big. Don't know that I would compare them to Steely Dan but excellent rock & roll. | |
| Focal Utopia Maestro upgrade I believe the Focal Maestro Utopia has a sensitivity of 93db and in a review on Tone Audio they said the speakers sounded great with 60 watt Primaluna Dialogue Tube monos. Note sure what the specs are on your power amp but I suspect that it has mo... | |
| Obscure bands My favorite somewhat obscure band has to be the late great Asylum Street Spankers. Not sure how obscure they are but certainly worth checking out if you don't know them. | |
| Dick's / Dave's picks FYI the 7/8/78 Red Rocks show is already on Tidal! | |
| Dick's / Dave's picks Just got dropboxed the 78 box set, going to take a while to download it but will do it overnight if I can and give it a listen tomorrow. | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC rinpoche for a purchase of this magnitude any good store should let you do an in-home audtion, I assume the store is local to you? Perhaps the owner can bring the amps over and at least do an audition with your speakers if he won't lend you an amp... | |
| Auralic Aries Mini vs Bluesound Node ll vs Sonos Well I just sprang for an Auralic Aries Mini found a nearly new one here with an ssd drive installed for a good price it arrives tomorrow. No issues with my Sonos except for one, the 2.4ghz network here, downtown DC, is massively crowded leading t... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Phish 9/14/99 Boise ID | |
| End of the line products. My Deja Vu preamp and amp and Yamamoto Dac would all qualify. I’ve had my speakers also for 9+ years original JMlabs Micro-Utopias, but can’t say I won’t replace those eventually. | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Maxima95 the Cerious website was setup before they started selling direct so that's why its hard to order from there. I would recommend sending Bob a message through the Audiogon system and see if he responds quicker. He's posted in this thread so... | |
| Dick's / Dave's picks Listened last night very solid overall, but much preferred 7/16 over 7/17 that Playin>Cosmic Charlie>Spanish Jam chunk is really great and very melodic for a Playin jam. | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables As Bob says he re-terminated my speaker cables for free and got them back to me in a week AND didn't charge me for the work or for shipping! This is a great guy who cares about his customers! |