mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| Better DAC or better Streamer DAC | |
| Audio stores near Bloomington/Normal Illinois? That’s about an hour from Bloomington-Normal. To bad the conference isn’t in Champaign-Urbana | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I had a Jays CD transport for CDs, but I couldn’t perceive any improvement over the Oppo 105 so out it went. My Melco Optical player functions as a CD transport when paired with the USB of the Melco N100 NAS does sound an uptick better than the O... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I have both the 203 and the 105 albeit in different systems. The 105 is in my two channel system and is my digital transport. I use the toslink to my Bryston DAC 3 for CDs and the HDMI outputs into the HDMI of the DAC for SACD, Blu Ray Audio and D... | |
| Ideas for a compact kitchen receiver? I just use a decent Bluetooth receiver in the kitchen. Takes up little space and once the food is cooking there is to much competing noise for a serious listen. Occasionally I use wired headphones and a portable player when I really want and gre... | |
| Streamer apps critical Absolutely. The app frequently defines the experience. I used to have a Bryston BDP-3 but ditched it due to the terrible software web based program it relied upon | |
| Help for me, money for you. I’m sorry that the OP is having trouble and feel his pain. Everytime someone posts asking about recommendations for a new CD player they are inundated with posts implying that they are crazy that they haven’t exclusively gone to streaming. This ... | |
| Bogus Ratings for MOFI SACD's This happens with everything. We had some issues with a place that we stayed at via Bookings.com, and my wife (a very temperate individual) wrote a review that mentioned 5 good things and the one negative issue. They published the review and del... | |
| DAC vs CD Player for cd playback with computer audio - Help old timer out I tried Googling the AR DAC and CDP but didn’t get the info I sought. If the CDP is from 2092 my guess is that it will not have a digital input to access its DAC. If it has a USB digital input only it might not be an asynchronous USB. A DAC f... | |
| Bluesound Node Icon I have no experience with the new Bluesound product and therefore cannot directly answer the OP. Doesn’t NAD make more expensive streamers than the Node, and still use the Bluesound OS? If so I would perhaps investigate that if I were the OP | |
| ??? All In One CD Ripper - SACD Rip/Playback - Streamer ??? Melco N 100. It will store (2TB) ripped files, play them back, and plays Tidal and Qobuz.. It doesn’t have a DAC but the original post doesn’t indicate that you need one. Mine was around $2K several years ago. It doesn’t have an included rip... | |
| How Many Times Do You Have To Listen To Understand A Piece Of Music? There are many composers that people I respect tell me that I ‘have” to get. Schoenberg and his school are the most frequently cited. So after years of trying I finally understand the music, but I still don’t much care for it | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @loomisjohnson very well said | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? -Because-I-Enjoy-Them | |
| Fiber is Coming to my neighborhood @akg_ca You are laying the blame for dropouts on budget streamers, but the OP doesn’t currently own a streamer. In fact he is asking for recommendations on streamers. Therefore his current internet dropouts are either due to his computer or... |