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| Favorite Symphonies Quiz Other Composers who exceeded 9 include Havergal Brian, who I think wound up in the thirties but who is best known for his First, the Gothic, which calls for Mahler Eighth like playing forces, and Edmund Rubbra, a very under rated Symphonist well w... | |
| Digital File Playing Sounds like you want a server located elsewhere from the PC, but will it be close enough to the DAC to do a wired connection or will you do WiFi? | |
| Digital File Playing It helps if you specify a budget, before someone recommends a 20,000 dollar device to solve your problems.Otherwise, I am not sure I understand your request. I have played files both from a Windows PC and Macs into a DAC and once you have loaded ... | |
| Music streamers You will get the biggest improvement when you add the DAC. Computer DACs are cheap noisy affairs. Any gains that may make going from a laptop to a dedicated streaming component will be incremental in comparison. | |
| When did you digitize your CDs and LPs? I still haven’t... I think you are done. I use a 2011 MacAir in one on my systems as a streamer, it’s a great use of an aged PC. I would burn the files to hard drive with the PC and play them with the Node2, since you already have it, but if you sour on the Node t... | |
| When did you digitize your CDs and LPs? I still haven’t... OPthere is no reason why you “have” to rip your physical media and play it from a streamer. It isn’t obsolete. I’m not a vinyl guy, but it’s making a comeback, the turntables and amps out there are a huge step better than what you had growing up... | |
| Surround setup problem I think that surround sound, done properly, is a great equalizer financially A mid fi surround system can enhance many recordings, particularly if they were correctly produced with respect to ambience, etc. One doesn't need a megabucks setup to ... | |
| Streaming vs CD transport direct comparison An interesting thread, but hardly conclusive, as perhaps a different CD transport and a different streamer would have yielded outcome, not to mention the small sample of the listening group. Personally, I get better results in my system with a CD... | |
| Is Pentatone Bailing on SACD? .Great news, Soundboy.I do live in Chicago, and have heard Kalmar conduct many times at Grant Park and yes I ma a fan. However, my main interest in this disc was the Piston, of whom I am a great admirer. Piston Symphony recordings are thin on th... | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz Why do we stop at 9? That is unfair to someone like Haydn, or Khovahness, or even Leif Segerstram. So I’ll do 10-15.10-Mahler, in the Deryck Cooke completion.11. C.P.E. Bach Wq18212. Haydn13. Mozart14. Weinberg 15. Shostakovich | |
| Digital direction needed Your Oppo might last years. If you like your current setup, relax and listen to music | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? I’m listening to Claudio Arrau play Debussy now with my Vault2 streaming files from my NAS, and really for the price it sounds great. However, I wish I could be reimbursed for the 2 Node2s that died on me | |
| External DAC for Cambridge CXN (V2) and Sony XA 5400 ES I have the Sony in my 2 channel system. It is a refugee from a HT system when I had added an Oppo 203 to replace both my BluRay and SACD player. In the 2 channel system my DAC is a Bryston DAC3, which has 4 HDMI inputs. The Sony outputs the DSD... | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? I went the whole house route. WiFi was poor from day 1, I eventually Ethernet wired the house and that helped. However, I have had 2 Nodes die on me, and now only use the Vault2 in 1 of my systems. Many problems related to updates. Overall I w... | |
| Tried DSD? I did two downloads from the Pentatone (Classical) label from a different site. The downloads did indeed take forever and then weren’t pristine, with a few brief dropouts. I tried this to compare the same recordings, which I have in SACD. My Op... |