mahler123
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| House renovation: Help with 3.1(.2) vs 5.1(.2) vs soundbar Regarding the rest of your post, you want the center speaker as close to listening seat ear level as possible. I personally don’t have experience with Atmos, but consider in walls again here, this time in the fronts, with the drivers angled to pr... | |
| House renovation: Help with 3.1(.2) vs 5.1(.2) vs soundbar Why not do in wall speakers for rears and then you can have a 5.1?Rear speakers are mainly to provide ambience, and this is the ideal time to install them as you have noted since the walls are open. They won’t take up any floor space. They can b... | |
| LG Electronics will stop making cell phones with DAC 'S built in!!!!!! I seem to get updates about once a month. Regarding reliability, I haven’t had any problem whatsoever, outside of the BT pairing, with reliability. I definitely had issues with iPhones although Apple Support is pretty damn good. My biggest comp... | |
| LG Electronics will stop making cell phones with DAC 'S built in!!!!!! They do, or did, make phones. The predecessor to their current lineup used a high quality DAC and got reviewed in Stereophile. At the time I needed a new phone and I was interested in getting a quality portable music player. I was looking at th... | |
| Bluetooth Pairing Nice to know it isn’t just me. I went back to using my wired Oppo PM3 phone, which wasn’t getting a lot of use. The other annoying feature with my newer phone is that Google seems to dropped the music player app that I had been using to play the... | |
| LG Electronics will stop making cell phones with DAC 'S built in!!!!!! That’s nice, I just bought one a few months ago and paid the usual price. What site has them for $69? | |
| Roku Streaming Stick Plus - using integrated amp Oppos are great machines. They solve a lot of connectivity issues | |
| Separate Amp for AV receiver I like AVRs with room correction. I would check out Anthem or NAD, which uses Dirac. RC can really make a difference with mid priced gear. I didn’t pay anywhere near $3K for that Denon—more like a Grand, and that was new | |
| Streaming transport suggestions I own the Bryston DAC3, which is terrific. I thought, why not pair it with a Bryston player? I bought the BDP3. Terrible player. Just because a company makes a good DAC doesn’t mean their expertise will carry over to other areas | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? Melco is indeed a player with a NAS. No DAC included, which was the point. I’m talking about their player NAS combo, not the switch, so that comment is a non sequiter. Regarding iron lung, what do I need to defend? I merely said that many play... | |
| Separate Amp for AV receiver What is the amp? I mean if it is an old Krell or Bryston that the OP is calling cheap, it might make a difference. The ultimate question here is the separation of pre amp and power amp. For the sake of argument let’s say we are in the 2 channel... | |
| Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC? The premise is flawed. Plenty of great players out there come minus a DAC. Melco, for one | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings My goal for a system is accuracy. If the original recording source was poor, I prefer the system that reveals that.if I want a system that buries that under a pile of distortion and artifact, I would go back into vinyl | |
| Sonic differences between servers OPI would look at Melco. Half size components, excellent player/server, and a Roon endpoint | |
| Streaming transport suggestions If you want to play multi room then consider a server. I use the the Melco N100. In my two channel system the Melco is both player and server. In my other systems the Melco serves as the NAS |