mahler123
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| Shipping. Hard Lesson. I have a patient who works for UPS with a flaming red hair and curls. He is hard to miss. He was delivering something to the building I work in when I was pulling in to the parking lot. Saw him fling it out of the truck, into the air, then it b... | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial While I agree with crn3371, what you might be hearing is a poor mix of the Simon&Garfunkel track. I remember that back in the day there was a lot of criticism Of S&G mixes, that they were “overproduced”. Since I was a teenager at the tim... | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming Laltik”care to enlighten us with steps involved with cueing up vinyl”Not sure where you are going with some latent snarkiness here, but my point was that when getting started with streaming, the frustrations can be so great for the average person,... | |
| Does It Even Matter? I haven’t heard your Bluetooth Receiver, but I have been using Audioengine Bluetooth DACs for a few years in my stems in my house, not as a primary source but occasionally for the convenience. These are well regarded Bluetooth DACs with the lates... | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming New to thread. In the fist post, the OP opines”I’m getting frustrated and it’s not suppose to be like this”. Wanna bet? Streaming is much harder to get right than popping in a CD or even cueing up vinyl. Listen to some of the stories in this t... | |
| Can anyone recommend a good streamer/DAC? I have the Bryston BDA-3, connected a Bryston DAC3, which was an upgrade over Bluesound, which I still own. Bryston sounds much better with Qobuz (and everything else, for that matter) Played into the Bryston DAC. The player that you are looking... | |
| Cary Audio CD 306 SACD player (non Pro version) Maybe the Pink Floyd disc has a brick in the wall... | |
| CD Transport VS Streamer If you like Bluesound, then just stick with it. Many people prefer ripped files to files actively extracted from a spinning CD. I would avoid the Vault2 and just stick with the Node. That way you won’t lose your files when the Bluesound units d... | |
| CD Transport VS Streamer The Vault is just the Node with added Functionality—it rips CDs and has a 2TB storage. Ripping couldn’t be easier-after adjusting the settings in goes the CD and a few minutes later out it comes. It isn’t a perfect ripper but as a ripper it best... | |
| CD Transport VS Streamer Using my Bryston BOT as a CD transport clearly bests my Bluesound into the same DAC | |
| Cheap/expensive or expensive/cheap? I recently added Audioengine B1 Bluetooth receiver to my system. It uses the latest Bluetooth codec and by far bested the previous six buck BT dongle that it replaced. I use BT primarily for podcasts that I start listening to on my drive home a... | |
| Best CD player under $2000 Another thing to consider are dedicated Optical Drives, mainly used for ripping CDs, that will also play CDs when connected (usually by usb) to a DAC. I experimented with an Apple Optical drive outputting into an Oppo 105, and the results were pr... | |
| Best 5.1 complete system under $3000 OPUsed or new equipment?My advice would be to go for a used AVR. They have virtually no resale value so if you are willing to forego some of the latest bells and whistles you can pick up something that will sound very good for under $200. I cann... | |
| Help me decide between these three DACS - Bryston, Luxman, Benchmark I have never heard the Luxman but as you say the brand is well regarded. I have heard the other two. I own the Bryston BDA3, which I wanted for the HDMI inputs, but your connectivity needs are different (btw, I have seen demo BDA3 available for ... | |
| DACs to look at? OPWhen I first bought bought Bluesound I wanted the whole house concept so I had a Vault2 in the main system and a Node2 in the basement system. The latter system featured a Pioneer AVR from the early 2000. I have a PS Audio Digital Link III DA... |