mattchanoff
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| Looking for good speakers, soundstage not important Thanks again. I've heard great things about DeVores. They have a dealer in my area and I'll check them out. Also interested in Ohms, but their home try-out procedure seems awkward. Yes, they'll take them back, but from the description on the w... | |
| Looking for good speakers, soundstage not important Thanks I'm going to audition the Fritz speakers. I had JBLs 40 years ago. Hated them, but maybe it's time for a re-listen :) | |
| Just got a new Bluesound Node. Very disappointed! I have three Bluesound nodes (exercise room, guest cottage, kitchen). Two are the older version of the Node 2 and one is the latest. I run Tidal, Spotify, and IDagio through them, and have never had the issue you describe. Either you got a lemo... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Also a flutist (though not professional). My take on this is: - The data on cables does not show anything that would explain audible differences between cheap and expensive cables except if the connection is bad (e.g. oxidation) or the cables are... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Proac 3 from about 35 years ago. They're about 48" tall and they have little holes in the back for pouring sand into them. Full up, maybe 100 lbs. They were my main speakers for about a decade and then moved to our vacation house. Still sound ... | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions @cat_doorman , thanks that makes sense to me, and thanks everyone for your input. I'm going to follow this advice with the Bluesound and borrow my RME ADI-2 DAC from the office to try that combination. I'll get used to that and then compare ot... | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions Thanks everyone. @manogolf, what DAC did you end up with? Also, interesting that you left your desktop as a streamer, given so many comments and reviews that stress all the noise and competing clocks in a regular desktop, as well as problems cau... | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions Thanks mahughes and hilde45 for your posts. Re the node 2i, yes I'm considering that. I keep hearing that the bluesound stuff is "entry level high fi," but if the DAC is what's important and I use a it just to stream, and if the the power supply... | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions Thanks for responding. As I suspected, opinions are all over the map, ranging from the ASR view that streamers make no difference and DACs have been solved and anyone spending more than $100 is a dupe, to the opinion that the dcs Bartok at $20k ... | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions Thanks. Yes, I haven't been crazy about it either. As I mentioned, I have a more recent RME ADI-2 DAC. I like that better, but it's in a different system and I haven't spent any time carefully comparing the two. | |
| Another person going digital and full of questions Thanks, but the Zenith would use up my whole budget, just about, and I'm perfectly content taking my CDs out of the closet and putting them in the machine. Plus, a lot of them are my own or other's recordings, I doubt song titles titles written o... |