m1k3
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| dCS Rossini Owners - sonic differences with and without the clock @thefeatherduster said:...and still very much adjusting to how music is now presented by my Hifi, when compared to my previous DAC. Adjusting to better sound or worse sound in your opinion? What was your previous DAC? As for external word clocks, ... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i @gelle, that’s what it’s about: find what works best with your gear. The 105 has a great DAC and Oppo always had good USB implementations in their universal players. Too bad their done; I have a 205 and it’s probably the last disc-spinner I’ll eve... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i @gelle said:From my limited knowledge of streaming, it’s seems the consensus is USB seems better than coax?Actually, my experience has been...it depends. Some of my equipment is too noisy on its USB output (on that system I use Toslink due to the ... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i Chris,Totally agree. BTW, appreciate your posts on AVS Forums as well. And, FWIW, I could not tell the difference between the Node 2i via coax and the U1 Mini via coax into the same DAC. Great value in the Node 2i.But Lumin U1 Mini via USB was a l... | |
| Higher End DACs DCS Bartok maybe. DAC, streamer, and you can even get a headphone amp add-on. For around $15k you can get an integrated all-in-one system better for less than the sum of its parts.I wish I could say I own one, but I have listened to the headphone ... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i laserjock1963 said:Different digital methods could make the difference. Do it over using same methods of transfer. It’s hard to compare with all the permutations we have for connecting our streamers and DACs. Finding the most synergistic digital p... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i ...but most of us are curious about a solution that is between $1,000 and $2,000 and if that will produce objectively better SQ.True. Outside of measurements it’s all subjective though; I’ll just quote myself from the first page of this thread:FW... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i hilde45 said:So for those of us getting their first streamer and feeling a bit gun-shy about big expenditures, is the consensus that the Node2i does a decent job, in its class?I love the Node 2i (even if I do at times mention a competitor’s featur... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i I also have Apple Music and prefer its playlists over the Tidal ones, i’m also using Soundiiz to transfer from AM to Tidal which then flow into Roon.Phil, that’s very interesting. I have Apple Music too. Do you use the “Sync” feature of Soundiiz o... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i @highpeakrider I agree with everything you say about Roon to include the ease you can select other endpoints. The Roon radio and new music discovery features look very useful too. I’m removing the computer and NAS completely from my audio chain so... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i Application wise it seems very old school and in need of a redesign, I’ve decided not to use it and use Roon as the front end.It is a bit of a non-standard interface, and no arguing that Roon is far superior, but for non-Roon users, despite its qu... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i One of the things I like about the Lumin app over BluOS is adding multiple songs that are not in order on an album or playlist to the Play Queue in one go. In the Lumin app’s settings, I have “Tap on Song List” = “Double Tap” and “Play Now”.This a... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i I love the “Dark” theme on the Lumin app. It’s cool that in the last couple of months they added Dark mode then Black Mode and White Mode. The multi-room support they just added sounds like a cool feature if you have multiple Lumin or Linn devices. | |
| Lumin App-Qobuz Question More info on mconnect.Sorry for the long post but it’s a copy-and-paste from an answer I gave on another forum:The maker of mconnect is Conversdigital. They have “player” apps and “controller” apps; you want the players not the controllers (which ... | |
| Lumin App-Qobuz Question The “mconnect Player” app (iPhone) and the “mconnect Player HD” app (iPad in landscape-only) added Qobuz sorting 2 months ago. It is a UPnP/DLNA controller, so although it does not support OpenHome extensions, it does work on my Lumin U1 Mini and ... |