mahler123
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| Do I Really Need a Dedicated Streamer? Streamers are networking computers optimized for audio. It will stream the same digits as your tablet. Most streamers will do it much better than your tablet. In digital audio timing is crucial. If the 1s and 0s arrive slightly out of sync (th... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! Is it to early to blame this hideous looking thing on Bose? | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest I would try to find someone locally with an ultrasound machine that will charge to clean records (I have someone here in the west suburbs of Chicago and actually dropped off a batch yesterday). Bring your problem records, have them cleaned, and t... | |
| How to Connect DAC's USB Port to Ethernet Cable There are some fairly small streamers out there that will handle DSD. iFi would be the first place I would look at. The OP said he doesn’t want a large box in that system-I get that- and I haven’t heard the greatest feedback about the company - bu... | |
| Music with Titles that get you to think Paul Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber. | |
| How to Connect DAC's USB Port to Ethernet Cable You have a DAC that costs at least $15K. Why fool around with an adapter that probably won’t handle DSD files? I would add another computer or streamer to the room that has the Bricasti and play the DSD files into the USB of the DAC. The cost... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? The best streamer I ever had for SQ was the Bryston BDP-3. Unfortunately the software management system was unusable. My current streamers are Melco N100 and CA CXN 100. The difference between them and the BDP3 is very slight. All three sou... | |
| Streaming from a TV OP Does your TV have HDMI? | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? @akg_ca welcome to the I Hate Manic Moose Club | |
| Sony or Panasonic 4K Player vs. Magnetar or Reavon Universal Player Not from personal experience. The reviews have been favorable, and I don’t agree with the statement that you made about the 205 | |
| How does sound influence your appreciation? If I don’t like an interpretation, great sound isn’t going to help. A pig doesn’t look any more appealing when being viewed with binoculars | |
| Black Friday Record Store Day 2024. I don’t buy any new vinyl. I am digitally oriented, but I do buy old LPs that have not been digitized. My genre is Classical and many LPs that I had back in the day had limited sales relative to other more popular genres and there are still old ... | |
| Audio Note Cobra and Cambridge Audio MXN10 Yes, I just checked the Cobra specs and over usb it won’t accept anything over 16/48. | |
| Audio Note Cobra and Cambridge Audio MXN10 I am unfamiliar with the Cobra but from your description I assume that it’s an integrated amp with a DAC. My first suggestion would be to try to connect another digital input to the Cobra, such as a CD player or transport, or. cell phone with an a... | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? I have a thrupple in my digital marriage . My Bryston DAC3 cohabitates with my Melco N 100 via usb and Cambridge Audio CXN 100 over SPDIF. The Melco , which is also my NAS, sounds great and I would probably give it a slight edge over the CA. ... |