mahler123
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| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Supposedly the main change in the Node2i vs the N2 is enhanced WiFi. It should still have the same digital outs and therefore connect to any DAC | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? It doesn’t take much to better ATV sonically, and you don’t need to spend more than $500, the price of the Bluesound Node2i | |
| Which DAC: Benchmark, Mytek, Audio Mirror, Holo Audio, Mojo Audio? OPwhat exactly is your budget? It would help to define that before any specific recommendations. Also I have never heard your Rega DAC, but I did used to own the Rega Apollo CD player. Can you tell me if the sound of the DAC-R is similar to the... | |
| Digital streaming options for my system are confusing OP, at the risk of being redundant, I just don’t believe that once a certain price point has been reached, that there is much of a difference between streamers when they are inputted into the same DAC. The improvement obtained going from a $500 N... | |
| Digital streaming options for my system are confusing Or you could use the Internal DAC in the Node2i for MQA and the current DAC for everything else.If possible, I would use a wired connection. I had some issues with WiFi and Bluesound and the Ethernet works much better, but the Node 2i is supposed... | |
| Digital streaming options for my system are confusing Another Vote for Bluesound. It sounds great in a high end system, I wouldn’t let old fashioned High End Dealer snobbery persuade you otherwise. May I ask the OP—how many 32 bit recordings do you own? | |
| DAC for McIntosh MA252? @kalaliI have to admit that I haven’t sampled a streamer in the price range of Google Chrome; Apple TV is as low Fi as I’ve ventured. However, I think that when you reach a certain lp rice point—certainly the $500 for the Node2 but possibly lower... | |
| DAC for McIntosh MA252? You say that you want to upgrade your DAC and add a streamer, but I’m not sure that you understand that these are two different functions. The first piece of equipment that you cited, the Node2, is just a streamer that has an internal DAC, but ca... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I completely agree with the OP, and many Audio critics have been making the same point recently. It’s ironic that just as CDs teeter on the brink of extinction, the ability to replay them has developed so far. | |
| Streamer/DAC combo or stand alone DAC with Node2? OPi am surprised that you didn’t find the Brooklyn to be an improvement over the DAC in the Node2. I have found the Manhatten, the Bryston DAC3, the Oppo 105, and the PS Audio Digital Link III to be significant upgrades over the Node2 DAC | |
| record vinyl to my macbook is it possible? Simplest way is to get a phono Pre amp or a turntable that has a usb drive. You can then directly record into your HD. There is free software to help. I think it’s called Audacity. I did this years ago, but only with a few albums, and I sold o... | |
| Getting close to giving up on CD's I currently use a Synology NAS, Ethernet connection, and use both an Oppo 105 and Bluesound Vault and Nodes around the house as server. DACs are Mytek Manhatten and Bryston DAC3. Sometimes it equals CD replay (using the Oppo as a transport for t... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD I sold off my vinyl rig a couple of years ago. I had gotten back into vinyl around the year 2000, out of nostalgia for shopping for lps, album covers, and also at that time there were several favorite albums of mine (my lp collection had been des... | |
| Getting close to giving up on CD's I have had the opposite experience. After ripping over a thousand CDs to various HDs I have concluded that replay from a HD can at best equal, but not better, CD replay, and frequently doesn’t equal CD quality. The differences aren’t profound, n... | |
| Thinking about a new, lower end CD Player It’s been a few years since I did this, but I do remember plugging one of those Discman players into whatever DAC I was using at the time and being pleasantly surprised at the results. I don’t know how I made the connection—did it have a digita... |