mahler123
Responses from mahler123
| Comparing external DAC to CD player DAC I agree with gods. At that price level it’s hard to discern differences. | |
| Best Way To Connect A Bluesound Node All good comments here. Ethernet and using the Mac DAC the way to go. I would get use to Bluesound for at least a few months before considering an upgrade | |
| are we also coffee connoisseurs? Or wine enthusiasts? Coffee to get the brain turned on, wine or Guinness in the evening to help it turn off. I probably should join a monastery or something to get off of both | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones I use the Sony phones, and they are very good headphones for noise canceling Bluetooth phones, but they are still a league or 3 behind my mid Fi HT systems, let alone my 2 channel. And they also can’t beat my $200 Meze Audio cans. Your problem... | |
| LP stores in Portland, Maine @aliu2 Thanks, that is helpful. It's suposed to rain next week so hopefully I can kill an hour there | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them @yoyoyaya I figured you were being sarcastic but I felt an urge to complete the circle. I have really enjoyed the help you gave me in my Direct Drive thread. @wolf_garcia I lost respect for Stone when he declared all non MQA DACs were obs... | |
| The Risks of Buying Demo Gear Bricks and Mortar dealers are such a rare entity that I guess we have to put up with foibles. I recently went to MusicDirect in Chicago, since I live a few miles away and didn’t want porch pirates to make off with my new purchase. Hadn’t been th... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them I heartily concur with every post here, except with the MoFi defender. @yoyoyaya The reason why MoFi won’t release DSD files in native format is because the Analog or Die! Crowd won’t shell out $125 for a 40 minute download. They prefer those fi... | |
| Classical Archives I haven’t. What is it? | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? My first Sony CDP, from around 1984, 14 bit player that lasted me almost 20 years as a primary source | |
| Tuner - FM over the air - suggestions I'm in Chicago, I can get WFMT over the air with the tuner in my AVR (Anthem MX520) but prefer the digital feed, which is crisper and not prone to weather related dropouts | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? @lowrider57 I have the M&A 1944 Eroica. This was actually my first introduction to B3, albeit on a budget lp that my older sister bought in 1972. That recording imprinted me; every other recording of the piece has never seemed as Life ... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? +1. @sbank | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? At the OP budget it would be very hard to beat the Cambridge Audio CXN 60. For about $1200 you get a vey good DAC and a great streamer. It has a much beefier Power supply than the Bluesound Node.. It does Chromecast and AirPlay, and Chromecast so... | |
| Its not vinyl +1 @jasonbourne52 I don't understand why anyone would want a digital system to sound like vinyl. If that is the goal, then wear earplugs to decrease the dynamic range and fry bacon in the background. I had tired of the vinyl sound... |