mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| Mental and auditory acuity, and aging I was at an Art Museum the other day for an enjoyable hour. It occurred to me that my 65 year old eyes aren’t as sharp as they were when I first viewed Seurat Sunday at the Grande Jatte, but I seem to appreciate it much more than back then, havin... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Beethoven Symphonies, William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony on Command. I was unaware of this set, and Googling it has been considered an early stereo audiophile recording because Command used 35 mm tape. Despite that I found it sonically... | |
| Time To Upgrade My Digital Front End Don’t know the TEAC. I would avoid the Bryston BDP2 or 3. There is a reason why used units can be had so cheap | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing @thyname +1 I can’t believe that the OP is considering buying another Project after having 2 previous failures and complaining of inadequate CS. This is like trying to counsel an abused woman who yet again is contemplating returning to her ab... | |
| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing Off the wall suggestion. Now I know the OP specified a CD Transport and doesn’t want a streamer. However….the Melco optical player can be used to either burn CDs to a Melco NAS or to play a CD. It has to be connected to the NAS/player by usb in... | |
| I am streaming , how can I play music when provider goes down. I haven’t read all the posts here, but hopefully someone has mentioned connecting the server directly to the streamer. If that isn’t possible then put some files on a flash drive and play those through the streamer if it has a usb input for flash... | |
| DVD-A thoughts... I have a bunch of DVD-As. I bought most of them at a fire sale when Tower Records went bust. They play fine on my Oppo 103 and 203, but not all play on a newer Pioneer Elite Universal player. Regarding your playback issue, it may be a compati... | |
| Bought a system without auditioning, thoughts? If it is for a new house that you hadn’t taken possession of, and you were starting from Ground Zero, you bought reasonable components and will probably be happy. Did you not have old components that you could have started with until you figured ... | |
| Focal/Naim APP forcing digital front end change I really like the Cambridge Audio CXN 60. It also has great Chromecast and AirPlay ability. They just changed the DAC, which I bypass anyway via SPDIF, but it has all the other in and outs except HDMI | |
| What was your first record? I had a Bill Cosby comedy album ( sad what he became, that album was so joyously funny), and then Neil Diamond Greatest Hits. My first Classical Album was Grieg Piano Concerto. | |
| What is your most fond musical memory. I think the experiences that we have when we are in our teenage years are the most intense and we spend our later years trying to recreate that feeling. In pop music, the most memorable I ever had was hearing Bob Seeger at a high school gym aroun... | |
| HT Receivers Compared @akg_ca I would disagree that 2 channel is the Holy Grail is a Holy Grail meant to reproduce live performance. It depends upon the genre and the particular recording. Popular music in particular is highly processed and artificial, a creatur... | |
| Jay's "Ugly Truth" video I don’t know why people who have an obsessive hobby sometimes feel the need to lament their obsession and blame the hobby itself and then put their whines onto You Tube. Even if they don’t state it explicitly the unstated message is that all fell... | |
| Ethernet I second all of the suggestions here, including the one about changing the router, but I use a basic Linksys switch that has 10 ports and have had no issues. I had looked at an uber$ Melco switch, since I use a Melco NAS/Player, but decided that ... | |
| Service After the Sale The best CS is the one that you never need. Streamers are networking computers and it’s not uncommon to have user issues. If I was implementing an IT service for a small business it would be foolish not to hit the ground running with a support s... |