mahler123
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| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? I prefer digital sound. The LPs that I buy are limited to ones that either were never issued digitally or were poorly remastered digitally. Occasionally one of these LPs will eventually be digitized and I almost always prefer the digital. Hav... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS I’m with Calvin in that I don’t think that measurements tell the whole story, and very annoyed by audiophiles who use them as their defying criteria | |
| McIntosh MX 200 Review (short) What is an Opp 104D? | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" As a lifelong atheist, I will leave the theological issues to others. I will however note that there are witnessed reports that Handel was seen composing the work with tears of joy on his face, apparently in the midst of a religious fervor. That... | |
| Streamer apps critical The Cambridge Audio Stream Magic app generally works well. Recently there was an update that screwed it up for about 2 weeks and I reverted back to their earlier app which wasn’t perfect but was at least functional. Then a new update solved ever... | |
| Better DAC or better Streamer DAC | |
| Audio stores near Bloomington/Normal Illinois? That’s about an hour from Bloomington-Normal. To bad the conference isn’t in Champaign-Urbana | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I had a Jays CD transport for CDs, but I couldn’t perceive any improvement over the Oppo 105 so out it went. My Melco Optical player functions as a CD transport when paired with the USB of the Melco N100 NAS does sound an uptick better than the O... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I have both the 203 and the 105 albeit in different systems. The 105 is in my two channel system and is my digital transport. I use the toslink to my Bryston DAC 3 for CDs and the HDMI outputs into the HDMI of the DAC for SACD, Blu Ray Audio and D... | |
| Ideas for a compact kitchen receiver? I just use a decent Bluetooth receiver in the kitchen. Takes up little space and once the food is cooking there is to much competing noise for a serious listen. Occasionally I use wired headphones and a portable player when I really want and gre... | |
| Streamer apps critical Absolutely. The app frequently defines the experience. I used to have a Bryston BDP-3 but ditched it due to the terrible software web based program it relied upon | |
| Help for me, money for you. I’m sorry that the OP is having trouble and feel his pain. Everytime someone posts asking about recommendations for a new CD player they are inundated with posts implying that they are crazy that they haven’t exclusively gone to streaming. This ... | |
| Bogus Ratings for MOFI SACD's This happens with everything. We had some issues with a place that we stayed at via Bookings.com, and my wife (a very temperate individual) wrote a review that mentioned 5 good things and the one negative issue. They published the review and del... | |
| DAC vs CD Player for cd playback with computer audio - Help old timer out I tried Googling the AR DAC and CDP but didn’t get the info I sought. If the CDP is from 2092 my guess is that it will not have a digital input to access its DAC. If it has a USB digital input only it might not be an asynchronous USB. A DAC f... | |
| Bluesound Node Icon I have no experience with the new Bluesound product and therefore cannot directly answer the OP. Doesn’t NAD make more expensive streamers than the Node, and still use the Bluesound OS? If so I would perhaps investigate that if I were the OP |