mattsca
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| Ad Hominem Criticism of Chinese Gear Folks, let's not equate the presence of Chinese products in one's home to the support of slavery, genocide, and totalitarianism. There is ample historical evidence that economic isolation of rogue regimes is largely ineffective at changing their ... | |
| Ad Hominem Criticism of Chinese Gear +1 @blackbag20! I stand delightfully corrected in my (mis)use of Latin. | |
| I accidentally overcame the Wife Factor Agree, good story, @buellrider97, thanks for sharing! | |
| SACD v Streaming I'm not ready to spend $20K, but I already have a Denafrips Pontus II 15th and I just ordered a Lumin U2 Mini, which would be about a $4,500 streaming front end before interconnects. I'll be able to compare DSD streams and I expect I'll have a ni... | |
| SACD v Streaming Just thinking this through, my disc-based front end is maybe ~$9,500 ($5,500 MCT 500 and call it no more than $4,000 for the DA2 portion of the C53). But a few of you suggest that matching this SQ might take $20K for a streamer/DAC combination? ... | |
| Whole home audio - wired or wireless? I’m not likely to be drawn back to Sonos. Seems like I had a similar experience to @jbs - constantly frustrated by glitches, lost/unfound devices, robo responses from Sonos "help," etc. If I do pure wireless, it’ll be Bluesound. I could have be... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @mahler123 I don’t know why my feelings would be bruised. I’m not here for a debate. I’m just trying to understand how to get the best out of SACDs. Maybe you are getting native DSD over HDMI. Or maybe it’s DOP, but still sounds sublime. Maybe it ... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices Great discussion, thank you everyone. @faustuss thanks for those excerpts. It seems to me the Oppo and Sony outputs may be DOP. But from @milpai’s early post, it looks like the Onix transport distinguishes between DOP over some outputs and native ... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/onix-zenith-xst20-sacd-cd-transport | |
| Speakers sound too bright. @bigtwin that web site you shared is intriguing. I have a very challenging listening room - 15’ wide, 24.5’ deep, 6.67’ high (yeah, low ceiling) with a couple of support poles and ceiling beams across the width. And, there is a corner angled in th... | |
| PrimaLuna EVO 400 v Cary SLI-100 UPDATE: Thank you, again, for all the great perspective. This really has been helpful. I managed to get a good deal on a used PrimaLuna Evo 300, with stock tubes and a bonus set of KT150s. I hooked it up with the Eversolo A6 and out to my vintage ... | |
| PrimaLuna EVO 400 v Cary SLI-100 First off, I have to say how much I appreciate all the comments, opinions, and suggestions on this string. They’ve been really helpful and informative on a topic I am brand new to. Thank you, each of you! To @decooney’s question, my current setup... | |
| PrimaLuna EVO 400 v Cary SLI-100 Fantastic, thank you for the views and suggestions, super helpful. What I see so far as worth checking out, and I will seek them out at AXPONA in April (Chicago): PrimaLuna EVO 300/400, or consider the previous gen, Dialogue Cary SLI-100 Line Mag... | |
| BS Nano as Roon endpoint I don’t use Tidal, but I do use qobuz and Amazon Music. I’ve been using Roon for two weeks now and, IMO, the interface is far superior to native qobuz or Amazon. | |
| BS Nano as Roon endpoint UPDATE: the ten second delay was my bad! Somehow I had set the resync delay to 10000 ms instead of 1000 ms. My wifi is just fine, but thank you, Jeff, for the comprehensive troubleshooting guide. I have a Nano hooked up with a USB connection to... |