mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| AI (Audiogon Intelligence) I heard a lecture yesterday by Jennifer Heimberg. She is the Program Director of The National Acadamies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in DC. She talked about many of the positive benefits of AI but also some of the alarming issues. One... | |
| Records and CDs Don’t know how to compare a random LP recording with a random silver disc. Mike placement, hall acoustics, conductor preferences with instrumental seating and balances…. Lets just agree that it has been possible to make excellent recordings sinc... | |
| Bluesound Node Best Sound Quality Input I had the Node generation before yours, and Optical was clearly superior there, with usb being pretty bad. However, older model, and if you own the gear you can do your own testing and I ‘d be interested in the results | |
| How to run 4K files on a Oppo UPD 203? The Home Theater section here is pretty inactive, but it would have in theory been the place to ask. I would try a different site such as AV Forums. | |
| Oppo UHP 205 Universal Player HDMI from the TV. I have old Samsung that has HDM out. | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? Anything will best the Project table. I prefer Direct Drive, and the OP didn’t specify a budget, but if he has say, $3K to spend I would get two tables, say a Technics 1500 and an equivalent priced belt drive and go to town | |
| Oppo UHP 205 Universal Player @arnold_h I am curious as to why you don’t use the in from the TV with your 205 | |
| Let the best be your guide @rvpiano Many Classical recordings from the first few decades of stereo were mixed with following assumptions in mind: 1) Listeners would be using AM Radios 2) If using a Hi Fi system, speakers would be bookshelf models, in small rooms, w... | |
| New streamer needed @ghdprentice I curious as to your statement about the future of Roon. I am not a Roon user and have no axe to grind here. I have seen it used and while it impressive I just simply don’t need it. I have wondered why a company like Apple ... | |
| A treat for those who like classical piano Scriabin is one composer that just never clicked with me. It puzzles me because Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninov are 3 of my essentials, but outside of the odd bit from a Horowitz recital, he bores me | |
| Adding streaming services to a streamer via usb Google Chromecast sounds excellent and doesn’t require a physical connection. The new CA streamers in the $500 range do Chromecast. Might be worth the investment by the OP just for that and AirPlay ( not as good as Chromecast but definitely bett... | |
| Digital Preamp with USB-input but without a DAC? @yyzsantabarbara aren’t there streamers, or more correctly perhaps Network Players, sans DACs, that usb inputs, take the digital input from an external storage device such as a flash drive, and then send that unconverted stream to an external... | |
| New streamer needed @davidtru +1 to add to his questions, can the DAC stage of the current CD player be used by the streamer(digital ins)), since the OP likes the sound? | |
| A treat for those who like classical piano Gilbert Rowland is the harpsichordist on the Naxos albums that I referenced earlier | |
| A treat for those who like classical piano I’ll have to find Hewitt Rameau. I’ve found her Bach to be generally good but somewhat uneven. @newbee so my first Rameau exposure was around 30 years ago when the Naxos label emerged with budget Classical CDs and greatly expanded the repertoi... |