mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| Audiophile Gershwin Recordings I just listened again to Rhapsody In Blue. Really excellent. My long time favorite has been Wild/Fiedler. Their clarinet schmear that launches the piece is more exuberant than the Slatkin, but I prefer the ebb and flow of the Slatkin a bit more... | |
| Are You a Swifty? My piano teacher complains that young girls want to learn her songs and that they are so unchallenging-every thing is based on seconds- that they are worthless for teaching purposes. | |
| Cd player Budget? And do you have a DAC? | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? It is hard thing to A/B test. I am not about to rip out my cabling that runs in walls and drop ceilings and replace it with newer digital cables and then go back again, and even expect that an aural memory from one listen to another is reliable. ... | |
| A Tale for Your Bemusement It’s unfortunate but I could have predicted that Sony wasn’t going to give adequate support to a machine of that vintage. Too bad you wasted your time reloading the music. Time to buy a server to load the discs that you can back up and then use ... | |
| Upgrade from BluNode 2i with a new DAC or Integrated Streamer DAC? Even if you have some inevitable hearing impairment at age 77 you still will appreciate upgrades in both streamer and DAC. | |
| Ethernet cables My attitude towards cables, particularly digital ones, is to go one step up from the basement, but not to go into the stratosphere | |
| Anyone Classical Music familiar with IDAGIO.net I never used Presto paid service. I used their free service, where you could stream the purchases that you had made on them, and I loved it, but then when they introduced their paid service the free service didn’t work anymore | |
| Company headquarters and warranty repairs A lot of upgrades are software and can be done over the internet or via a flash drive | |
| Music through streamer vs CD/SACD They should complement each other. My DSD recordings from SACD are the best sounding in my collection but red book and streaming can also sound excellent. Not all music is available on SACD and the future of the format isn’t bright | |
| Anyone Classical Music familiar with IDAGIO.net I used it for a few months but it had some technical issues that I just couldn’t solve, despite their responsive CS, so I dropped it since my wife wanted us to stay with Apple Music. I wish them luck | |
| Sound Quality of Cables Used With Bluesound Node My DAC sounds the same across all inputs. When I had the Node the optical was the best sounding output | |
| Buying a remastered recording from radio: LP or CD? CDs are less durable than LPs? I’ve accidentally driven my car over CDs that then were fine after a clean up with soap and water. Try that with an lp. If durability is the issue than buy a CD and immediately back it up to a hard drive. You c... | |
| DAC streamers: Bryston v. HiFi Rose video I am guessing not, since I used to own the BDP3, and it had no visual capabilities. My impression is that the Bryston combination unit is just the DAC and streamer under one casework with no new added functionality. You should be able to contact B... | |
| FYI - QOBUZ SERVICES WILL BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE They had an outage recently. Were they hacked? Are they doing something to try to prevent this and thus the maintenance now? |