mahler123
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| Built-in vs. Standalone DACs Honestly I wonder about the separates argument in the highest price tiers. If I bought a streamer/DAC combo, or integrated amp/DAC, in the $20K range, I would expect the DAC to be damn good, and not an afterthought. Separates might make more sen... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero I agree that the current environment just isn’t conducive to wanting to make expensive purchases. It is like being asked to buy an automobile without a test drive. Younger people being asked to do this I imagine will be more reluctant than us ol... | |
| Streamer matching to system I recommend the Cambridge Audio CXN 60. I use it for the same purposes that the OP will, to play files from my NAS and Qobuz, and he won’t have to switch anything. It also has AirPlay and Chromecast , a good app, and will be way under budget, an... | |
| CD Player - Dgital Out on Onkyo C-7030 @pooch2 I am assuming that you are connecting the Onkyo CDP to the same DAC as the computer. The files that you play from the computer have been ripped to a HD. Hard drives tend to sound better than the same disc played on a CDP. This has be... | |
| Yamaha CDS-1000 or Denon DCD-1600ne At $799 this player is a steal | |
| Yamaha CDS-1000 or Denon DCD-1600ne I stand corrected, but the practical point here is that both players are good, and I can’t account for how the differences between them will fit with the totality of the OPs system/room, let alone the OPs taste in music. From my viewpoint either ... | |
| Yamaha CDS-1000 or Denon DCD-1600ne +2 @coralkong DAC and power supply much more important determinants of sound than anything @jasonbourne52 cites. I’ve heard both SACD players, and I’ve heard the OP speakers. However, I haven’t heard them all together, nor have I been in th... | |
| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear I will be 65 soon. I have back and heart problems. My speakers are B&W 803-D that my (now defunct) dealer delivered and placed in my upstairs listening room almost 20 years ago. It took two strong guys then. I want new speakers but we are ... | |
| CDs: FLAC v ALAC (v Digital Download) It’s been a while since I had ripped to iTunes but I remember reading about and then making my own comparison between ALAC and FLAC. As @erik_squires says there was supposedly some minute improvement with ALAC but it wasn’t audible imo. I think ... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I need something to autobias the silicon in my solid state amp. I’m tired of sand swapping | |
| Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording I remember being surprised when I read a book on Music Appreciation that lumped Beethoven and Schubert together as belonging to the Classical Period but being transitional figures, paving the way for early Romanticism | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I missed the satire. I guess you have to have a longer memory than me for thread that was being parodied. this happens within the digital topic all of the time. People buy a streamer for $10K compare it to a $300 CDP and declare that streaming is... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? What do you perceive as being wrong with your current set up? | |
| Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording To be fair, I think there may be some confusion here with terminology. There is a Genre (I hate that term, but it’s useful here) of Classical Music, and then within that Genre there is the Classical Period, the dates of which were supplied by ano... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl +1 @arafiq I listen to Classical most of the time and it’s just now contest. The expanded dynamic range alone made me fall in love with my first CDP, and it was 14 bit player. Even that player revealed so much more detail and made the in... |