mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| detailed vs. warm DAC - which do I prefer? I have both the Manhatten (I) and the Bryston DAC3. I’ve never heard the PS Audio, but based on what you’ve written, I have a feeling that the Manhatten will suit you fine. My Manhatten is fantastically detailed and analytical but still sounds m... | |
| Where is my digital problem: taste, vinyl v. digital, DAC, realities, etc? OP asks if he should just be happy with vinyl. I would leave it at that.I think that some people’s brains are just Hard Wired to prefer the limited dynamic range, surface noise, and speed instability that vinyl offers. IMO digital should not try... | |
| Flaws in this chain? I have the Vault2 and two Node2 in my house, and no hiss issues | |
| Smart home theaters I only do Dumb Home Theaters. And it might help if you specified a budget, whether you want to integrate existing components, speaker number and size, sub or no sub, Multichannel vs 2 channel, ... | |
| Flaws in this chain? I’m +1 with Steve. The ATV is ok with movies but you can do much better for music. I would check out the Bluesound Node2i | |
| DAC Confusion Since Bluesound is part owned by NAD, I would suspect that the DAC in the Amp is pretty similar to the Bluesound Internal DAC. I own the Vault2 and Node2 but to to be fair, I haven’t heard the DAC in the amp. I think you did the right thing. Th... | |
| Hardware Streamers I use Bluesound, with the Vault2 in my two channel system and a pair of Node2s in HT systems around the house. I haven’t used the usb connection to a DAC, but via the toslink they sound wonderful. I also have an Oppo 105 in my two channel system... | |
| Do Macs Play FLAC? Ok, flac, not flax | |
| Do Macs Play FLAC? Traditionally flax has been better with metadata, but as you say Roon is handling the metadata just fine, I wouldn’t change anything that you are doing | |
| Setting up Home Theater with AppleTv4 agree with auxinput | |
| New Bluesound's Node 2i As fast far as better sound-without hearing it, can’t say, but essentially it’s a digital transport and the external DAC should be the biggest factor there. I’m willing to believe that the DAC included sounds better, because there have been so ma... | |
| New Bluesound's Node 2i Better WiFi would be nice. I wasn’t able to make the WiFi work when I had a problem with the Powerline Adapters that I use to rout the Ethernet around the home. The App kept me running in circles.Better Adapters helped but I’m having Ethernet ca... | |
| New Bluesound's Node 2i Looks to me like the changes are BT and Airplay | |
| Lab 12 DAC1 Special Edition That’s some review (I’m new to this thread). I live in Chicago and would love to hear it. If the Audio Archon people are still reading this, let me know how to contact them | |
| Have DAC’s improved for Redbook CD playback? I just resurrected an old DAC that I had and put it in a different system and am very pleased. I had a PS Audio Digital Link 3 sitting on a basement shelf. It’s about 10 years old and was formerly in my two channel system. It’s major weakness w... |