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| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? Great thread. Here are my current digital choices, all served in high res: Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25: 4 Moderato - Anne-Sophie Mutter - Carmen - Fantasie Lay Lady Lay - Cassandra Wilson - Glamored Horizontal Blue - David Piltch - Take ... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? No. | |
| Any problems streaming 24/192 files to external DAC from Bluesound Node? @marco1 thanks - agreed. I upgraded the power cable to the Node using a FURUTECH FP-S022N cable with SONARQUEST Carbon silver plated connectors (with Mojo Cable c7 adapter) and that made another big difference for streaming - and frankly a bigg... | |
| Which Cable Makes the Biggest Impact? @overthemoon I tend to agree, and much earlier in this thread suggested that the last cable added was the most important because you had taken care of issues elsewhere and now you were more fully experiencing and expressing the benefits of the nex... | |
| Any problems streaming 24/192 files to external DAC from Bluesound Node? @totem395 my DAC is an Arcam irDAC with external MCRU linear power supply and POCC power cable (not that that would have any thing to do with coaxial compatibility - but it does noticeably improve the overall performance of the irDAC). I think th... | |
| Any problems streaming 24/192 files to external DAC from Bluesound Node? Update. I purchased a new DH Labs 75 ohm coaxial cable and problem streaming 24/192 files from Node is better than solved. Streaming from hard disk through Node is the best digital I have had in my system with my DAC to date. Far superior to an... | |
| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet I met Michael Fremer once a Music Matters open house and he was spinning disks in a room with a system that featured some extraordinarily large Wilson speakers. It sounded very good. Fremer had a prerelease and apparently ultra special pressing of... | |
| Any problems streaming 24/192 files to external DAC from Bluesound Node? @oddiofyl thanks. I should clarify one important thing I omitted in my first post. I am “streaming” (actually, more like serving) music from a USB flash memory stick, not the Internet. Not sure that should make a difference in this case since the ... | |
| What type of wire for dedicated 20A AC lines? FWIW, the 10 gauge dedicated orange romex line purchased at Home Depot and run from a 20 amp breaker to a 20 amp medical grade outlet sounds better with my gear plugged into it than the 12 gauge non-dedicated line right next to it on the wall with... | |
| Single band, tri-band or quad-band mesh for streamer Thanks all for your feedback. I was looking at the Asus xt8 system. If I get three units I can have one on each floor of my home and serve our main floor office and TV and streamer upstairs and the music and video streamers associated with my ma... | |
| Single band, tri-band or quad-band mesh for streamer Sorry, let me provide more context. I am setting up a streamer in my main system for the first time. Whatever streamer I choose is likely to require an ethernet connection to access the Internet. I have several choices to accomplish that: 1. s... | |
| Audiolab 6000N For what it’s worth, I bought an Audiolab 6000a for a family member to replace an NAD 3045 D and the Audiolab sounds much better in their space with some older Wharfdale Diamond speakers just streaming with aptX from an iPhone or Computer. The DA... | |
| Best power cord for a preamp? Try this. I build my own cables and have had difficulty beating performance of this for just the price of materials. Using one of these on my tube phono pre. Super clear, great bass. https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisagjeg-stealth-powe... | |
| Rega Brio integrated - buzzzzz Not the first complaint on here about buzzing Brio. I have a last generation Brio R that sounds great, no buzz from speakers, but it’s on a power conditioner. Perhaps that helps. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/buzz-from-the-left-chann... | |
| How Much Do Your Subwoofer(s) Cost Relative to Speakers Good bass is expensive. While you can buy a modest set of new monitors today for $500 to $1,000 that don’t absolutely suck and can give you plenty of hi fi enjoyment with decent electronics ahead if them, the same cannot be said for a subwoofer. ... |