mahler123
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| The big DAC decision As has been mentioned, in the price range mentioned most DACs will sound very good. The OP said he wants one that he can keep for years, so he or she might want to look at features. I have a Bryston DAC 3 that has 4 HDMI inputs besides every oth... | |
| want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts? I had problems with both my Node2 and Vault2. The whole system goes kablooie at once. And I still haven’t heard back from my dealer about the Pulse Mini that died a year out of warranty. I am burning my discs to a Synology NAS that I am current... | |
| Can You Recommend a Good High Res Digital Audio Player? NWZX-300 that is the Sony player that I have and it’s definitely portable | |
| Can You Recommend a Good High Res Digital Audio Player? I second the Sony | |
| The big DAC decision There is a heck of a lot of DAC choices between the Oppo 105 and the 23K Meridian Product. And yes, spending 23 K for your current setup, even with premium phones, strikes me as goofy in the extreme. I would sell the Headphone Amp and get a de e... | |
| OPPO or Something Else? @whart I think you nailed the point of our differences. My intro to Oppo was the 105, which has several digital inputs and therefore be used as a DAC with other digital sources (which is how I used it for a while, in addition to SACD and Red Bo... | |
| EAC question Oops—does EAC stand for Exact Audio Copy? I use dbpoweramp so I didn’t catch that at first?what happens if you try to rip using iTunes? Does the meta data show up there? | |
| EAC question What program are you using to do the rips? And are you using a Windows or a Mac or something else? | |
| OPPO or Something Else? I have used a 105 for several years, purely in a 2 channel stem for music only. My experience is the polar opposite of @whart .i used the Oppo as my DAC for other digital sources as well (Bluesound and a MacAir). After a time I bought the first ... | |
| Audio improvement for OPPO 205 @capeman Does your Ayon decode DSD? Not all DACs do, so you want to check. If it does, then yes, use the digital outputs of the Oppo, and in the settings, change SACD output to DSD. | |
| Roon Nucleus Just saw the May 2018 issue of hi fi + featuring a review of the Nucleus by Chris Matthews.”I had been running the Roon software...for over a year now and one of the issues has been that running it requires a decent amount of processing power. A ... | |
| OPPO or Something Else? There are other Universal Players out there that might be worth investigating, especially as transports. Sony makes one for around $400. Video performance is supposed to play well but audio (per reviews, I haven’t heard it myself) supposedly la... | |
| Audio improvement for OPPO 205 I don’t own a 205, but I have a 105 and a 203, both of which are set to output DSD from SACD. I didn’t even know that outputting PCM was an option, but there are some DACs that will only do DSD over PCM so perhaps that is the reason. My DAC is a... | |
| Roon Nucleus I am glad that there are a lot of happy Roon users out there. All I’m saying is that I seem to suspect that there also people like me, where it doesn’t so smoothly....it’s a big mother of a program, after all. And I still haven’t seen an explana... | |
| Do Macs Play FLAC? Oh, that’s a different issue, I was asking if the hardware was capable at all of playing FLAC. I couldn’t merge my files into iTunes on the Mac either, although they seemlessly merge on the NAS and play back via iTunes..Have you called Apple supp... |