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| Pros & Cons of Buying an Integrated with Built-in DAC? You sound pretty happy with your present set up, so why the desire to change? I am guessing that for under 1K for a new DAC you will be making a lateral move. Not to disparage any DAC in that price range, but Hegel has a solid reputation and I su... | |
| Here comes the Oppo UDP-205 replacement.... Still, a War, it’s nice to see any machine be available.. I would expect a price increase ove Oppo. It needs to be Multichannel, though | |
| Marantz DV8400 SACD Output There are DACs that will accept the DSD input from SACDs, but I am not sure that the Marantz is capable of outputting DSD from it’s digital output. I think you would need a different transport than the Marantz, and a different DAC than the Azur, ... | |
| Please help me figure out what I need to do this. My head spins with tech talk.. OPi listen to Classical Music exclusively so perhaps my input may be helpful. As others have explained here, yes you need a separate DAC? Are you sure, however, that you don’t want to listen to SACDs and/or Blu Rays? When I last looked, there w... | |
| I'm happy with my cleaning method of LP's but am I missing anything? OP: “I’m extremely happy. I hear things that I don’t hear on my CDs.”Before I sold off my vinyl rig I used to hear things on lps that I don’t get from silver discs as well. The sound of bacon frying, loud pops and clicks, hums, sustained Piano n... | |
| Need Bluetooth and/or wireless equipment help Most People would consider transferring their lps and CDs to a HD and then using something like Airport Express to send it to the kitchen, using something like the Home Pods which could also accept the other Apple Sources (don’t know about the And... | |
| Music Server - The Search Begins UberNAD, one of the parent companies for Bluesound, has some expensive (around 4K) streamers that use the same BluOS app. I suspect that they view Bluesound as the budget line and their Master Series as the HE alternative. I haven’t heard the Ma... | |
| What improvements did you hear in going from entry level to high end Audio? I am glad that you enjoy your system Calvin. That’s all that matters. I am in a good place as well. I have had more expensive demo stuff in my system, and it didn’t work. Not in it for “my stuff costs more than yours” factor.And I truly believ... | |
| Music Server - The Search Begins UberHoly crap! I just did the same thing with a usb stick and am playing it through the Vault. I could have sworn that I had tried that USB port back when I purchased it and that it didn’t work. Do you think it’s possible that they had a bug th... | |
| Upgrading my Redbook after 18 years OPJust for clarification: are you listening to headphones only, or speakers as well | |
| How to make low end digital sound "not terrible" on higher end systems? What kind of files do you have on your phone? Are they MP3? Spotify streams in org vorbis, which is similar to MP3 MP3 sounds fine to me as well through headphones or earbuds, but sadly deficient through a HE system. Any system that will try to... | |
| Insider or Outsider? To be or not to be,...? GeoffkitWere you intentionally quoting the Beatles song Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey” | |
| Need Bluetooth and/or wireless equipment help Home Home Pod only does Air Play, afaik.I re read your OP. I guess I’m a bit confused about your goals. It seems to me that you want to do Whole Home Audio, using all the sources in your primary music room, but also be able to add other sources,... | |
| cdp repair in Chicago Midwest Audio was the place I dealt with. Very thorough, but they had a backlog, so don’t expect anything soon | |
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