kray
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| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? What a great thread.... I'll add some obscure alternative ones... Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente (New Order) Pure Imagination - Smoking Popes (Willy Wonka) Toxic - Local H (Brittany Spears) True - Duvall (Spandau Ballet) | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES In it's simplest form, whether MQA is trying to do a good thing or not, is the fact they are basically DRM's music in a way, creating a proprietary format that requires manufacturers (and ultimately you) to pay them to use it. No thanks @fastfre... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @moonwatcher Yes Qobuz supports bit-perfect. and it's high-res files 24/192 are lossless. as opposed to MQA lossy snake oil Now the can of worms is how do we know the 24/192 version is not a resampled 16/44 file, etc. the industry as a whole lea... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? @rman9 that is correct. | |
| Pro-Ject CD Box DS2T vs Audiolab 6000CDT @tweak1 isn't the DS3 a lesser version of the DS2T since the DS2T is a transport only, and the DS3 is a player/transport. Seems they both have same servo/mechanism | |
| Pro-Ject CD Box DS2T vs Audiolab 6000CDT Hey @jerryg123 have you been able to compare the 6000 to the 260? | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES Never was a fan of Tidal but did compare it to Qobuz years ago, and preferred Qobuz. But I think tidal really shot themselves in the foot when they increased their pricing and you need their highest tier to get MQA (which I'm not a fan of). So bas... | |
| Basic switch....should I upgrade? @car123 there is no real setting up of a switch (it will sense data flow). If you have the 8 port you just connect the existing lan side cable (going back to your main internet/network/router) to the port on the right by the sfp port (port 8). The... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? I had a Lumin U1 Mini, got curious and built a Ropieee pi4 with pi2AES HAT into same DAC. after about two weeks I felt something was missing... switched back to Lumin and things were back to better. They were close, but I could definitely tell s... | |
| Zenwave alternatives Thanks @wig just read the Zavfino thread. Very interested! | |
| Zenwave alternatives @daveyf I get that and would like to, but I'm moving my rack to the side and will need 5m length, which is pushing the base models to $1200. I know for some that's a drop in the bucket, but right now I can't afford to put up $1200 on speaker cables. | |
| Should I upgrade from a Mac Mini to a dedicated server or should I upgrade my dac? My thought is if you’re using Roon and you DAC is connected via Ethernet like a streamer then it’s not as a noticeable upgrade (if at all) by adding a Roon NUC, SGC, etc. the big difference comes when using USB out of your mini, which you’d then d... | |
| From separate streamer and DAC to al-in-one suggestion @rsf507 I'm definitely leaning towards the Bricasti specifically for the reasons you mention. I would have an entire made in usa system including amps and speakers 👍 Not to mention they offer upgrades as well. | |
| From separate streamer and DAC to al-in-one suggestion Thanks @jb505 the Linn has come up a few times and something I should look at. Short list: Bricasti M3 Meitner MA3 Linn Accurate DSM I do like the fact that the Linn has analog input so I could connect my phono preamp to it. | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @verdantaudio thanks for this great thread. I read every page! I recently posted about moving from separate streamer/power supply/DAC to one unit and the Bricasti M3 came up there too. So I’ll be trying that plus a Meitner MA3 and possibly and t+a... |