larrykell
Responses from larrykell
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? I have bought expensive components from private individuals on Audiogon. I have had zero trouble with those transactions and have met some wonderful people who I am still in touch with. There are dealers on here that will deal with the Asian mar... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? There is a food chain when buying audio gear. I have purchased high quality amplifiers and preamps on here but I had to wait years for the model I wanted. I have dealt with wealthy individuals. I do not believe they put expensive gear on a shelf ... | |
| Recommendations for digital recording device? Yesterday, I received the Denon DN-900R. It’s sold out in a lot of places and I had been waiting on it but I found Markertek, a broadcast supply house, that had it in stock so I got it right away. I hooked it to my Tape Loop 1 inputs and outputs ... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source @mahler123 So, I’m running HQPlayer now on my M2 Mac Mini. I think there is an improvement in sound quality. I’m still trying different filters and such. It is cheap compared to buying a hardware upsampler. I bought a license for HQPlayer 5. Inst... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I was tricked by the volume control in HQPlayer when I had set the level to fixed in Roon. The setting of -60 in HQPlayer rendered the system mute. By the way, the developer says not to use greater than -3.0. | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I got it to work. I’m still trying to figure out how much of an improvement it provides. | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source Well, I think I just wasted $299. I purchased a copy of HQPlayer for my Mac Mini, set it up, picked CoreAudio output and connected the USB output to my Aqua Formula. Well, it fights with the Aqua Formula device I had set up so I disabled that d... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source Thanks a lot @lalitk and @tk21 ! Funny enough, yesterday, I read a page on how to configure HQPlayer as a zone in Roon. I’m going to do that in order to see what kind of improvement I hear over the Roon engine. $299 is pretty cheap compared the... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I will say that digital audio is such a mess and I’m in tech. I’m amazed it works at all. I’d actually like to spend most of my time listening to music and not messing around configuring a device. Roon has worked well for me for years. It’s prett... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source That’s the thing, how much are we comfortable spending in order to gain an increase in sound quality? I spent about $8k the Aqua Formula DAC and love it. It really sounds great. Now, people tell me I should not stream from a Mac Mini but have a d... | |
| ROON? I see Roon as a point of integration. I subscribe to both Tidal and Qobuz and log into those services in Roon. I would love to see more streaming services added to Roon. As others have said, you can create playlists from CDs from multiple serv... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I put my ear up against the M2 Mini and I cannot hear the fan at all. I don’t think the processor is under much load when it is streaming audio. Of course, there is ambient noise in the room. None of us have silent rooms, unless we live in the wo... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I think I've been down this road before with you, the HDMI road, lol. My DAC does not have an HDMI input, although it has many other inputs. Look up the Aqua Formula. The thing sounds great, by the way. Roon does an excellent job of controlling ... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source The promise of Apple silicon is to be able to run the same apps across all hardware devices, so, I certainly hope that they will produce a version of the Apple Classical app that runs on the Mac Mini. I can't connect my iPhone to the USB input o... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I upgraded to an M2 Mac Mini and it works great as a streaming device to my Aqua formula DAC. Roon is quick, much quicker than on the 7-8 year old Mini I was running. I use a Luna dongle to send video to an iPad so I can run the Mac Mini in headl... |