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| Help setting up nework for Zenith mk3 arriving next week You are worrying too much. This being an audiophile site, you will get people swearing to the death about the superiority of one kind of cable vs another, but most reasonable people are going to tell you that especially with ethernet cables, fro... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Arthur Foote...don’t know of him...what pieces would be a good place to start? | |
| Installing new wires in room with hardwood floors I have a drop ceiling in my basement that helps hide a lot of wires. I did drill a small hole in the hardwood floor in the living room above it to run Ethernet wires. The hole is hidden by some built in shelving in the living room. It’s been th... | |
| CD player Louis, you still haven’t told us your budget...and you will get more responses if you post in the “Digital” forum... | |
| 0s & 1s are all the same aren’t they? Is it really worth paying for a “better” Streamer? My actual listening experience (as opposed to reading about) streamers is limited to 4 — Computer audio ( I lump in various Macs and PCs here), Bluesound Node/Vault 2, Bryston BDP3, and Lumin.The Lumin was auditioned in my dealers showroom with mu... | |
| music: religious experience or background noise? I thank the OP for raising the question. Certain works have always seemed to significant to me to be just abstract sound. The last movement of Beethoven’s Op.111 Piano Sonata, with those amazing trills, has always made me imagine that one is con... | |
| is Hi-Res all that? I suspect the OP has encountered different remasterings for High Rez vs CD issues and a few of the High Rez masterings were not up to snuff. I listen primarily to Classical and my suspicion is that pop music is more susceptible to this, because r... | |
| Stream vs digital download One problem with streaming is that you are at the mercy of your ISP. If they decide to throttle down the bandwidth at given times, your high Rez streams may lose some vibrancy.. | |
| Favorite Beethoven Symphony Recordings The new Jordi Savall cycle is worth hearing; they only finished 1-5 before having to adjourn due to Covid.re: Mangleburg, I wouldn’t worry about You Tube sound, given the limited frequency response of the original source, you won’t be missing out.... | |
| pre-amps for home theatre....whats your preference? As always when people ask for help, defining a budget is useful.I am very happy with my two Anthem MX-520 /AVRs in my 2 HT systems. Certainly they were an upgrade of the AVRs that preceded them for music.As for the hyperbolic statement that one c... | |
| Oppo 203 SPDIF Digital Coax output On the off chance the OP is sending DSD files from the streamer to the Opposite over HDMI, the Opportunity won't output DSD over coax into a DAC, but will output them over HDMI | |
| Favorite Beethoven Symphony Recordings I like the Zinman cycle. The Honeck 3 and 7 are fine recordings, if not particularly memorable, imo. | |
| Why do some think "music" (not gear, trading, etc.) is the ultimate end? I am not sure why the angst over the original question. For me it is simple. If I had to choose between hearing the music I love on a less than optimal system, vs having to listen to music that I dislike on a great system, I'd pick the formere... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I've been into American Composers lately, particularly Symphonists of the first half of the Century. Howard Hanson, Walter Piston, Charles Ives, William Schuman primarily. I've been less enamored with Menin, Diamond, and Perischetti, but still A... | |
| Favorite Beethoven Symphony Recordings I’ve been playing that sixties Karajan cycle frequently. It just sounds so “right” in so many places... |