mahler123
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| A real "wake up call" available to most....High End Audio vs. Mainstream...... Is any of this a revelation? That most people don’t care about audio? We need to skower Craig’s List to discover this? And the inevitable flip side, the navel gazing by confirmed audiophiles that we somehow have lost our way, that life was bet... | |
| Empty canvas: recommendations on blending audio and moving watching OP said in his OP that he had no interest in 5.1... | |
| Beating a dead horse.... SACD Pioneer UDP LX50 or Sony Universal Players | |
| Newbie to digital streaming looking for advice on next steps Rach Fan Be aware that for Classical Music, streaming software sucks. If you can write your own, and are adept at organizing your own files, that would be the way to go. Otherwise you are reliant on the metadata. Be prepared to start looking fo... | |
| Advice on CD transport 5 years ago you would have had a lot more choices. How about a Universal Player? Then you can enjoy the music from DVDs and Blu Rays, and if you decide to add a monitor you can watch them as well. I use a Pioneer UDP that did cost $1000 but no... | |
| This is subjective, but what has been the best sounding SACD you have had? I second the Channel Classics, and would also add the BIS label | |
| Hi-res streaming on Qobuz My brief experience with the Arcam was that it didn’t match the Node in SQ, but ymmv. I also have a Bryston BDA3, which is both a significant upgrade over the Bluesound and displays bit rate. The Qobuz high Rez tracks sound much better than sta... | |
| Audiophiles must be careful with their remotes, vs. items on ebay. I thought the OP was was going somewhere along the lines of hinting that a piece available on eBay sans remote may have been obtained illegally, such as a smash and grab home invasion where the thief wasn’t being very picky about what they leave with | |
| Any thought on the Anthem MRX AV recievers? I have two of them in my home. I love the Room correction. They are definite upgrades over the Pioneer Elite and the Onkyo that preceded them | |
| Hi-res streaming on Qobuz I briefly owned the Rplay and wound up sending it back to the dealer. Everything sounded the same, I couldn’t tell much difference between mp3 and Red Book and High Resolution, and the player doesn’t indicate what is actually being sent to the DA... | |
| Looking to use the Bluesound Vault 2i High-Res 2TB Network Hard Drive CD Ripper/Streamer OPlots of threads about Bluesound in the Digital and PC forums.fwiw, I will disagree with djones and say that using my CD player as a transport into my DAC sounds slightly better than playing the ripped CD on the Vault2, but it isn’t a night and d... | |
| Streamers, servers, players - woefully overpriced?? Melvinjames, you’ve got some pretty impressive connections in Tech Support. I invoked Moses to help me with my streamer but he was busy with the Jewish Holidays.... | |
| I was going to give my son a system, with brand new Solid Steel rack but he has AirPods??? I went through this with two of my kids about a decade ago. As they got their own places I showed up with good used equipment that I had carefully shopped for, or in some cases handed down. After setting everything up they both dismantled it and... | |
| Soundbar AND home theater - but only one HDMI ARC You are using a sound bar as your speakers. Why are you worried about losing a little fidelity by Splitting the HDMI signal? | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? Source is important but the DAC is the larger determinant of sound quality. I use a Bryston DAC3 which has 4 HDMI inputs. My Oppo player can output the DSD layer of SACD via the HDMI perhaps your Mac can do the same? |