mahler123
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| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Assembling a great sounding system with a big budget shouldn’t be that hard. Synergy between components and the room matters but at 5 figures and up you are probably going to get some decent sound even if you throw darts to pick the components. ... | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric Esoteric makes great sounding players. My concern would be servicing. There were a few threads about poor US service approximately a year or 2 ago. Perhaps there were some pandemic issues that have been resolved, but especially as you identifie... | |
| Recordable CD/DVDs are vanishing too I don’t know if this the appropriate forum but the Home Theater tab is not very active so I will post here asking for advice. Last week we had a power surge. I have 3 systems in my home and many components across them were effected but with o... | |
| Opinions on Bluesound vs Sonos. My dealer is a Bluesound rep and he denies seeing any issues such as I described. It’s been about 5 years since I owned Bluesound and perhaps they have their product improved, but having had about $1500 lost to this issue I won’t be going there a... | |
| Recordable CD/DVDs are vanishing too @larryincmh Brings back bad memories. I retired a few months ago from being a Primary Care Physician. People would always bring their studies done elsewhere on CDs to review. I had sold my Practice 10 years ago and was working for a corpora... | |
| Opinions on Bluesound vs Sonos. I don’t have any experience with Sonos. I did use the Bluesound Node and Vault for years but I moved on because ultimately my units kept getting hung up during the very frequent Bluesound updates. What is your actual budget? I get that you want t... | |
| Digital Path to Complete my System I use a Melco N 100 NAS. I bought Melco Optical disc player to use as a ripper (it can also be used as a CD player) but it will accept other optical rippers. Since I have thousands of CDs I also bought an additional Melco storage unit. The N... | |
| The joys of mid-fi I have 2 HT systems with midfi, and my cherished pricey 2 channel. I always enjoy the mid Fi but really enter another zone with the higher end | |
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier Just curious. Did you send it to the original manufacturer? I appreciate the concise OP but this is an interesting issue and would love some of the details. That is a boutique manufacturer that I think only sells a few hundred of each unit for ... | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? I repeat, at least in Classical, I don’t know of any compression in my several thousand CD collection. I’ve had some recordings bump up against the ceiling of the filter on a DAC, but that hasn’t been an issue for a couple of decades. And isn’... | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? @inagroove I listen primarily to classical. There may be compression used on some recordings but I haven’t encountered it. CDs will always beat LPs for dynamic range because they eliminate the noise floor. This isn’t just opinion, it’s b... | |
| Eversolo A6/A8 I to stream Apple Classical and was interested in the Eversolo. Reading this thread has discouraged me. Btw I agree with the OP that Apple Classical is superior to Qobuz and vastly more so than Tidal. My recommendation to the OP is to get a s... | |
| Qobuz Connect working Beta demonstration....yay! @cleeds +1 Manic Moose is in it’s own special circle of Hell | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? +1 @8th-note i don’t know where the ridiculous notion started that vinyl has a greater dynamic range than digital. Numerous studies show otherwise. And how in the world would vinyl extend the dynamic range of a digital file when it is embed... | |
| Starting Over and I need your help OP You have the closest thing to a consensus that you will ever find on one of these threads. YOUR AMP SUCKS. I all capped it because you don’t seem to be picking up on this. The DAC in the Node is decent. I can vouch for it as a forme... |