mahler123
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| HiRes lossless FLAC Radio streams I tried the link. Every station I clicked either didn’t work or restricted access | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? I had the Marantz 8005 years ago. Great midrange but rolled off the top end | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? OPAs others have indicated, your problem is your lousy Marantz CD player. A new DAC will make an enormous improvement. You may want to consider a new CDP that allows for digital inputs-essentially these are DACs that spin CDs.. Then you can upg... | |
| Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith I’ve been using a Melco N100 and couldn’t be happier, controlling with the MConnect app. I wanted to add AirPlay and Chromecast capabilities so I added a Cambridge Audio CXN streamer. It also has enhanced Internet Radio. It also works quite wel... | |
| Is it worth it to add a music server just for FLAC files? I believe the OP was asking specifically about his files stored on a HD. The query wasn’t about streaming services. So then the question becomes do files stored on a HD sound better if played back on a bog standard personal computer vs.a dedicat... | |
| Is it worth it to add a music server just for FLAC files? I don’t think that there will be a gain in SQ by adding a server. If you add a second system, then the server will be able to “serve” the files to that system as well, but if it’s one system only then you aren’t going anything | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? I hope the Powerline adapters work better for you than they did for me. I had several that gave up the ghost because in order to reach all the rooms my house, they had to pass over more than 2 zones on the circuit breaker. Eventually I Ethernet ... | |
| Why audio streamers are so much more expensive than video streamers? I have had a few streamers pass through my system, ranging in price from $100 to about $1200. I have a natural sympathy with the premise of the OP, but I have to comment that the cheaper streamers can’t hold a candle to their more expensive breth... | |
| older CD transport vs newer ones. I also have a Bryston DAC3. It has 4 HDMI inputs. I have a large SACD collection. My Oppo 105 is programmed to output the DSD layer of SACD over HDMI. I also have a Sony ES SACD player that feeds another HDMI input on the DAC. The Sony transpo... | |
| What CD player/transport has the most stable mechanism? Actually, there were a number of complaints here from Esoteric owners that were required to ship their units back to Japan, at very high cost, for repairs. Hopefully that is no longer the case | |
| A MEMBER IN NEED OF SUPPORT I have a son who is working on a disaster relief crew in New Orleans. His stories are unbelievable | |
| DAC Upgrade Advice, budget $5k I love my DAC Bryston DAC3 | |
| Streaming vs. CD Discovered it was playing only out of 1 channel; apparently one of my cheap cables was defective. The better cables arrived last night and now it sounds much better. However, I am using the “Cambridge Connect” app. It doesn’t offer Qobuz, and t... | |
| Streaming vs. CD I just added the same Cambridge streamer that the OP uses. I bought it because of its claims to use mpegDASH to improve Internet Radio, and because I wanted to add an AirPlay device to my two channel system. Unfortunately the RCA interconnects f... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound vs. Roon Nucleus The Roon Nucleus is a piece of hardware that Roon developed to specifically run their program. I tried my Roon trial on an aging MacAir and the computer severely overheated when it got hung up trying to run the program so I can appreciate where a... |