kingbarbuda
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| Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith Is the Innuos Sense app supposed to be a Roon alternative? | |
| PC for LUMIN X1 ! .... Shunyata? Nordost? Synergistic Research? AQ? @questionforhifi I can relate to your power cord confusion. There are many good choices for power cords. That is good. But also a problem to navigate through all the choices. I think it comes down to the basics. Thicker gauge is good. Highest qual... | |
| Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith @jmphotography if you are using your Zenith Mk3 as your Roon core server, this will be pertinent: I am a former user and owner of an Innuos Zenith Mk3 and PhoenixUSB. During the winter 2020 pandemic as a DIY project and experiment and after I watc... | |
| Offer / counter-offer? Audiogon rules The answer to your question is “no”. But you are free to counter offer the potential buyer again. | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... When I got back into this hobby I addressed the power cord and cable issue myself with a trial of Shunyata Venom to stock power cables. The Venom series is Shunyata’s entry level, but contains their core technology. The difference was not subtle. ... | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... @troidelover1499 Maybe Tammy at Audiogon Support can help you with a name change to triodelover1499? | |
| PrimaLuna Evo 200 underwhelming Please humor me: please check *carefully* the speaker cable connections on the back of the PrimaLuna. It is easy in poor lighting to mistake the 8ohm tap for the ground. Also check the connections on your speakers. Usually these things are somethi... | |
| Does listening to music increase your IQ? Saw King Crimson in Chicago pre-pandemic. Ditto Wow, as per above. | |
| Point to Point vs Circuit Board I think this is not cut and dried. I feel that you can have poor point to point wiring and great circuit boards and vice versa. In point to point, what is the quality of the wire? What kind of solder is used? How well has the soldering been done? ... | |
| Audio deals you bought that seem impossible for the price? @millercarbon agree whole heartedly re: the Raven Blackhawk Mk3.1. One recent unbelievable purchase was a pair of Sony SSCS5 standmount speakers. I bought these on Amazon for $73! Yes. $73. Now they don’t sound like $73 speakers. Before I got my M... | |
| Roon for high end audio? @peter_s you need a streamer in between. You can also have your Roon core server on your network etherneted to a switch and you can Ethernet your streamer for best results from the same switch. Then run USB out from the streamer to the DAC. You ca... | |
| Roon for high end audio? I stand corrected on SGCs reporting of RAM and SSD. As you can see 8GB and 64 GB is the *bare minimum* for Roon to be functional and forget any DSP. Plus they are using a Gen3 i5! We are up to Gen10 now and soon Gen11 if it isn’t here already? The... | |
| Roon for high end audio? @sbank Well if not interested in even a small DIY, then the SonicOrbiter maybe a good option and based on my experience weighing everything, better than putting out lots of $ on Innuos or other high cost servers, which IMO are overrated. But if yo... | |
| Lumin or Aurender I like the LUMIN U1 Mini. Great streamer. It will do upsampling if you want. It’s a Roon endpoint. It can be modified easily to be powered by an external SBooster LPS. The SQ is great and cost is competitive with other options. It also tends to co... | |
| Roon for high end audio? @sbank @nitrobob I wanted to specify that by running Roon core on a “computer” I think it is optimal from both a SQ and cost perspective to run Roon on an Intel NUC. You can put together an over spec’d NUC w/RAM and SSD for less than (conservative... |