mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| An Homage to Long Term Ownership 6 year itch? | |
| Need a new FM Receiver that works very well I was using a Yamaha tuner in my last home and I thought it sounded great. It was built in cheap plastic casing and wasn’t much to look at but I had a friend bring over an Uber expensive McIntosh tuner and the Mac did sound better but the Yamaha... | |
| Bluesound Node Does Not Stream Pandora...bummer! That’s a bummer. I thought Bluesound ran everything. Is it to late to return the Node? My first thought would be to return it and get a Cambridge Audio streamer or another streamer that has AirPlay and Chromecast, both of which are big sonic im... | |
| Yet another question about streaming I think the OP is getting confused with HT like issues, where various AVRs or processors may not accept certain audio formats. Generally this isn’t an issue with 2 channel DACs. They all decode mp3, FLAC, ogg vorbis (Spotify). The DAC is the ... | |
| How many watts?? On jasonbourne comment about running horn speakers with 200 watt amp--is that necessarily a bad thing? My only experience with Klipsch speakers was at my brother in laws house in another State, and he was using an AVR to drive them that he proudl... | |
| 16 bit vs 24 bit vs 35 bit vs 36 bit vs 64 bit DAC sampling For me I heard the biggest improvement over bog standard 16 bit when I went to an upsampling DAC that could do 20 bit, when recordings that were either recorded or remastered at higher bit rates than 16. I've owned subsequent DACs where the upsam... | |
| My CD player won't read CDR or CDRW This is a 20 year old thread | |
| '' Okay let me ask my digital question in another way ''........ Just a suggestion, but it might help if you included the phrase “Esoteric Owners” in your title, since you are asking a highly specialized question for a small target audience within the community. Does Esoteric have a support group on Social Med... | |
| Looking for high end individual streamer & individual dac to work in tandem. I am not familiar with the OP current CD player. Does it have digital inputs? If so and since you like the sound of your CD replay then I would use that as the DAC. I believe the OP was asked if they will be using streaming services only or b... | |
| Transporter i9 and multichannel DSD I don’t know. If your ears can tell a difference between DSD 64 and higher than I salute you. Kalman Rubinson has written about these products, I think, when he had a regular multichannel column in Stereophile. You may want to check their index | |
| Upgrading from b1 I don’t have much to add but that never stopped me before. You have discovered both that bt has come a long way in the past few years, but also that even at its current best BT remains inferior to conventional, non lossy playback. One of my pet ... | |
| Cocktail Audio Firmware Update Issues Does Tidal run on Android? I got so fed up with Apple “bricking” applications with updates that switched to Android a few years ago. I use Qobuz so I don’t know if Tidal runs on Android | |
| Help wanted spending money and improving my system. The 2 most obvious choices for me would be (yes, I know the OP only asked for one).1) replace the DAC with a Bryston BDP3 which has HDMI inputs. Then program the Oppo to output DSD over HDMI and you can enjoy the DSD layer of your SACDs. The Bry... | |
| Setting up a streamer for a frien If the budget is over 1K I’d get the Cambridge because it adds Chromecast and AirPlay, and it has a better DAC than my older Node2. The present Node2 has a better DAC and may even use the same Chip as the Cambridge, but the CA is a larger compone... | |
| Setting up a streamer for a frien A few more thoughts, RVW:Did you recommend the Cambridge that we both own? It isn’t much over the stated budget. Also, where are the files to be stored? Or is this listening only for streaming services and not going to include the present CD ... |