mahler123
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| Thoughts on using the DAC in my oppo 205 with a CD Transport. I’d recommend a Bryston DAC 3 which is what I use with my 105. I have a lot of SACD and use the HDMI inputs for the DSD. Don’t know what it goes for used but someone quoted $2K up thread | |
| Thoughts on using the DAC in my oppo 205 with a CD Transport. I tend to think it’s the DAC, as the above posters have said. I use my Oppo 105 as a disc transport into my Bryston DAC3. However…transports matter…and it would be interesting to hear what happens when a dedicated CD transport is used. I susp... | |
| Anyone have experience with using Paradigm home theater speakers in a 5.1 / 7.1 setup? I don’t mean to rain on your parade but Focal has really slashed the quality of their speakers in a corporate race to the bottom. Hopefully it works out for you. I am considering the Paradigm Founders to replace my 20 year old B&W 800s in ... | |
| Network Switches If you are new to digital I wouldn’t be messing with expensive switches. Get used to what you have before considering spending significant amounts of money on what amounts to the slivers of walnuts placed on an ice cream sundae. | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? It sounds like you were at a concert featuring Historically Informed Performers (HIP). Wood flutes and oboes have unique timbres. They can be a problem in very large auditoriums and in smaller venues they can lack some dynamic range but have the... | |
| ??? Are Manufacturers Killing Our Hobby ??? It’s nice as a consumer to have choice. The obvious answer to the thread question is that it’s the lack of interest in traditional, as opposed to portable, audio, that’s the problem. People just don’t want to sit and listen to music in the home | |
| Is Qobuz Customer Service an Oxymoron? The answer to the title thread is yes. I had a terrible experience with Qobuz and then it was impossible to cancel the subscription. I finally had to cancel the credit card | |
| Bluesound node 2024 vs Cambridge Audio AXN 10 Having owned both Bluesound and Cambridge Audio streamers, I definitely prefer CA. They sound better, have more useful features, the app is better, they don’t die after 3 years as 2 of my Nodes did, and the updates are seamless, whereas I was afr... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound I just received the big George Szell box. Szell and Cleveland were my introduction to much of the basic canon on the budget Odyssey re releases in the seventies. The latest remasters are super. The boxy feeling that most of these recordings h... | |
| SACD v Streaming I have used my Oppo 105 as a streamer, at least for playing CDs that I have burned to my NAS. My Oppo plays SACD as a transport, sending DSD over HDMI into my Bryston DAC3. I have burned the CD layer of SACD to my NAS (Melco N100) and they sound... | |
| Is there a ROON sound? I’ve read a lot of reviews that comment that Roon slightly degrades SQ. Just saying | |
| Finally Bought Chord Qutest I never had a NuPrime DAC but what I have heard from the rest of their stable left me unimpressed. I am sure that the OP has made a major upgrade. | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings I was listening to the Bruckner Fifth and Sixth Symphonies on Pure Audio Blu Ray by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin PO. Regrettably the Blu Ray is nla but the diaphanous strings , beautiful winds and perfectly tuned brass is perfect. There is... | |
| SACD v Streaming I have never heard a streamer in the 10 K range but I am highly sceptical that spending into the stratosphere on a streamer will best SACD. The key here from my standpoint is the DSD. Perhaps if the streamer is used for DSD downloads it will riv... | |
| Opera Consonance CDP...couple questions +1 @stuartk If you are interested in Higher Resolution than CD, such as Blu Ray Audio or SACD then you might want a player that adds that, and a Universal Player may also have a digital input to allow you to add an inexpensive streamer such as a... |