mahler123
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| Snowballs The refs were right to stop the game and enforce order. Looking at some soccer highlights from Australia this weekend, it’s clear that the boundary between mischievous fan misbehavior and serious outcomes can be a thin one. So I retract my post ... | |
| Snowballs So shortening your life any 20 years and having permanent brain and joint damage playing the game is perfectly normal. But getting hit by a snowball-Dios Mio! | |
| Apple Music vs Tidal for SQ I haven’t listened to Tidal in years. I switched from Qobuz to Apple for various reasons and while I give Qobuz a slight edge in sonics I found Apple to be a lot closer than I had anticipated | |
| Hi Res from iPhone vs AppleTV sound Interesting way to get high res out of ATV. But why do you need the phone? If you pay for an Apple Music subscription you can jettison the phone.and use it straight from ATV | |
| Comparing Denon Tuners to new It seems the problem here is getting better movie dialog sound. I have the same problem with My Anthem 5 channel based set up. | |
| Digitest I bought the Melco N100. I also needed a new server at the time. I can play the Melco directly into my DAC but I subsequently added a Cambridge Audio CXN 60 for some of its other features and so most of the time the Melco is a server to the CA a... | |
| Digitest @jbuhl I used to own the Bryston BDP3 and made similar comparisons. At any rate I always preferred my own CDs ripped to a NAS compared to Qobuz, but the difference isn’t huge. This preference has continued as I have moved on to other streamer... | |
| Streamer/CD ripper as others haver noted SQ shouldn't be an issue with decent equipment. I would get a decent DAC streamer combo that will allow you to use the Rotel as a transport while you rip those CDs. It is easier to include the storage as part of the streame... | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? With all this esoterica being discussed, how does one account for the phenomena of the fact that most lps these days use digital files, and vinylista think they sound great, as long as they don’t know the truth? | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? Vinyl sucks. Measure that | |
| Reliable Mid-Priced 7.2 Channel Receiver I third the Anthem, but it’s definitely above his price range | |
| Reliable Mid-Priced 7.2 Channel Receiver I know that you specified your budget, but the build quality and reliability might be better in the 1K range. My advice would be to look for a bargain in the used markets. AVRs generally don’t have high resale value. If you get something cheap ... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz @mapman fwiw, I was listening to the same recording (Klaus Tennstedt conducting the London Philharmonic in Mahler Resurrection Symphony from the LPO house label) played both on AirPlay and Chromecast yesterday. Streamer is Cambridge Audio CXN 6... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz I use streaming primarily for auditioning recordings. If I really like it I then buy a download or a CD. I use an Android phone but my wife has an iPhone. She had a free Apple Music subscription and started to make playlists, etc and then the s... | |
| Built-in vs. Standalone DACs And then there is the advantage of less boxes and cables. This is a reprise of the integrated amp vs separate pre and power amp issue. When the high end companies such as ARC started making really good integrated amps that sounded basically indi... |