mahler123
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| Magnetar The surround channels are less important, mainly for ambience and movie effects like helicopters flying, so one could justify using a lesser chip in those channels, but it seems chintzy to do so, especially considering that this is not a budget pl... | |
| Magnetar @arnold_h thanks for the input. Your point about the different chips for the surround domain intrigues me. Do they use a separate chip for each channel? Or one chip for two vs another for multichannel? | |
| Am I right for this forum? I just saw this thread. OP, you definitely seem to know a lot about music, and probably a lot about how acoustic music sounds. I suspect defer to your judgement on acoustic instruments reproduction more than I would for the majority of posters h... | |
| Give Up on Bacch? It’s hard to advise because the finance is part of the equation. If you are Jeff Bezos than you won’t notice the $200. If you are like the rest of us then the dilemma of being out the $200 versus the total cost for a component that you may have ... | |
| Meeting up with members even where there is no sale I will be out of town and unable to attend Axpona but I wouldn’t be adverse to starting a Chicago area audio club | |
| Meeting up with members even where there is no sale @jbhiller I’m in Chicago. PM me | |
| Noob question about streaming . . . I haven’t read all the threads after the first dozen or so, but my take: 1) Wiim is a great bargain, but it at best will be a lateral move from HEOS, and probably worse 2) Spotify refuses to adopt High Resolution streaming. Any of the the other... | |
| I don't get it...Exile on main Street-Blue My 1 cent I listen primarily to Classical but I was a huge Stones fan in my teens. I disliked Exile when it came out and for the most part hated it, and never bought a Stones album again. I tried streaming it a few months ago and could only g... | |
| Digital with same soundstage as analog To go back to the OP, the Oppo 83 can be improved upon. Personally I run a 105 into the HDMI input of my Bryston DAC and I have an excellent soundstage when spinning SACD. The results of course depend upon the quality of the original recording. ... | |
| Bluesound Node help Fwiw I used to own Bluesound and found its operation to frequently be counterintuitive. My Cambridge Audio streamer is much easier to use | |
| Noir album recommendations Try Quiet City, by Aaron Copland | |
| Apple lossless as a source I have both the V2 and the CXN 100 in 2 different systems. The CA app allows for native Qobuz , either wired or via WiFi. Apple is either via Bluetooth, AirPlay, or Chromecast as discussed earlier. Qobuz is a fine streaming service and it’s proba... | |
| Apple lossless as a source Nothing like asking one day for help with Apple, and then announcing the next day that they have switched to Qobuz. I think I will wait a few days before I answer the next such query | |
| Changes to Orchestra tuning. @bolong no, this is a real issue, that effects music at it (re)creation.This Loudness Wars is a mixing issue | |
| Classical "Gems" Milstein recorded the solo Bach more than once. I have the DG version |