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| Amazon music HD ( Hi-res) Uber, I would take issue with you that there is a huge potential market for High Rez, although I hope that you are right and I am wrong. I think that most people just don’t care. I know many serious Classical Music lovers, with huge collections,... | |
| Best way to stream FLAC files. DAC stands for Digital Audio Converter. It converts all of the ones and zeroes in a digital stream into sound. Without a DAC all you would hear is a bunch of clacking, but no music. It doesn’t matter whether the digital stream is an un compress... | |
| Advantages of owning equipment from major audio brands vs. boutique shops? One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is economy os scale. A boutique company that might sell 100 units can’t make as much money as a larger company that buys parts in bulk and sells more units. I’d rather save some money and get better quality f... | |
| HDMI Extender over Ethernet recommendations HDMI cables are tricky bastards. I once did a long run and it was an effing nightmare.I have a drop ceiling in my basement and it’s perfect for hiding the Ethernet, speaker, and whatever wires for the basement system and the living room system r... | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? I had ordered Fisher/Budapest M1 and I have to concur with the naysayers here. It’s nicely played but in a ridiculously crowded field it doesn’t offer much that is new. | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings I agree that the constant comparisons between Bruckner and Mahler are a disservice to both Composers. I have always thought, however, that these are the two Composers that benefited most from the advent of the long playing (lp) record. I perso... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings The Ninth was my “gateway “ into Bruckner. The first Bruckner I encountered was the Fourth, when I was in College about 4 decades ago. It was entertaining but one can only take so much medieval knights jousting background music. I heard the Sev... | |
| i'm looking for something that may not exist By the way, you want a player that will play lossless files, not mp3. I think some of the ire you are attracting is due to the fact that perhaps you are unaware that mp3 is compressed, lossy sound, and you are asking for a system that will turn c... | |
| i'm looking for something that may not exist I’m not a vinyl guy. I also don’t do much in the way of portable listening but I have been out of town, visiting the wife’s clan, using a Bluetooth headphone and a planar magnetic headphone that is tethered to my digital player, and I am in a ref... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings My favorite Furtwangler Bruckner is a VPO Eighth recorded in an empty Hall in 1944. My copy is from a private label created for the fund raising telethons of WFMT in Chicago but it is available on many labels. It was made the day before a concer... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings @brownsfan For many years the Jochum/Dresden set was my only Bruckner. In the seventies when I started collecting it was the only affordable Bruckner. Karajan on DG and Haitink on Phillips would release individual symphonies in huge boxes that... | |
| Room Nucleus+ vs what for dCS I imagine there wouldn’t be any sonic difference. I can’t distinguish any difference in my files running ethernet from my NAS to my Bryston BDP3 streamer vs playing the same files from a usb drive in the Bryston, and my NAS sits 100 feet away | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? I am listening to the Blomstedt Ninth on Qobuz now so it must be available?Just finished III; so far it’s excellent | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings I am not sure that I know the Barenboim Berlin Seventh. Is that with DBs Berlin Orchestra, the Staatkapelle, or with the Berliner Philharmoniker? I have the DB/Staatkapelle Fourth on Blu Ray, impressive though sonically a bit of a let down | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings Thanks, 2Lefty, I hadn’t gotten around to looking at that thread. The Giulini (note the spelling, we wouldn’t want to mix up the Conductor with hand grenade that is Trump’s Personal Attorney) Eighth and Ninth on DG are stunning, try them as Japan... |