mahler123
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| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum I live in Chicago and have been buying from Music Direct for around 15 years. Their CS used to be excellent. About a year ago I purchased as Technics 1500 Direct Drive and had a problem. They were pretty frosty but I finally showed up at their ... | |
| Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ? My wife and I were supposed to be in Cape Cod visiting her mother this week, but my wife caught COVID on the plane coming back from Europe. The weather here in the Midwest is glorious right now. I had already taken the week off, so I am hanging ... | |
| Does the Audio press ever excite you anymore? I get more value out of this site than I do with audio mags. Members who have problems here don't have the CEOs of the company flying out in their private jets to repo9sition their speakers a quarter inch | |
| All-In-One (NAD C-658) vs NODE N130 with Separate DAC and Headphone Amp I uses DIRAC in my main system. I like it, but the improvement is pretty limited to the sweet spot. Since both components are made by NAD, the one with Dirac should sound better, but while I have direct experience with the Node, I don't with the... | |
| The Ultimate Audio Modification: Golden Ears @psalvet Great Post. Everything I could meaningfully add has already been stated by subsequent posters. Let me just say that a professional reviewer probably has no economic incentive to reveal their hearing results. If they aren’t perfect, i... | |
| Being alone with your music I need my time, and my space, and perhaps one reason I love listening to music is that it is a solitary hobby. This was more of a need during my first unhappy marriage. The 'problem' with being happily (re)married is that I feel guilty if I shut... | |
| What happen to MQA on Tidal? @alaric62 I am not sure why you would cite the demise of MQA to reject all forms of streaming. MQA was just one way to access reputed Hi Resolution Files (whether they were truly Hi Res is a different story). However even a service such as Tidal... | |
| What happen to MQA on Tidal? I have only heard a decent Atmos set up in an Audio Store. I like my 5.1 and don’t intend to ditch it but I remain curious. MQA I have heard in a few settings. I never consistently heard a difference when playing FLAC vs MQA. Different remas... | |
| If I rip all my CD's to flac files do I still need a CD transport? We debate the sonic differences between streamers and CDPs, but the bottom line is that one can obtain great results with all of them. The question really is life style. I listen to Classical Music almost exclusively and the software management pr... | |
| I stream 24/7. Do you? We listen to Internet Radio in the home as our background music, and then for ‘Serious listening’ it’s either Physical Media or my CDs burned to a HD. I use streaming services mainly for auditioning new recordings or while on the go | |
| Bryston Support I had a lot of issues with the BDP3, but ultimately their CS was pretty good here, as you could leave a ticket and put it in a repair mode and they could work on it remotely and I didn’t have to be present. Ultimately I think most of the issues-no... | |
| Bryston Support I didn’t want to go into details either but I really found this to be bad. My BOT stopped working after burning about 5 discs. I had to pay to ship it to Vermont or wherever the repair center was. It was there for months and I finally called, afte... | |
| WiFi Streaming Versus An Ethernet Cable Connection I used to own the BDP3. I gave up on it due to the software management issues, but it sounded excellent, and I thought Qobuz was really good on it . I used the WiFi dongle and preferred wired | |
| Rotel CD Players I don’t have a lot of experience with Rotel gear in the last 15 years or so. I heard one of those players briefly demoed a few years ago and I remember it as neutral, not warmish like Marantz, or as detailed as Bryston or Hegel. As usual if you ... | |
| Marantz cd players @nonoise I second every thing in his post, particularly about the old Marantz house sound, which rolled off the treble to much for my liking. I am not familiar with their newer iterations. Btw, for the OP, the Marantz customer service doesn’t ge... |