mdalton
Responses from mdalton
| New streamer needed @stievus Sorry, I wasn’t clear. The W4S modified Sonos bypassed the internal DAC just like yours. So my comparison was of a stock sonos with digital out to benchmark, vs modified sonos out to benchmark. The dac’s sound dominated, which is wha... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @tonywinga My wife and I love Savannah! We’ve been collecting art (that sounds so 18th century!) for almost 30 years now, and it started with a getaway to Savannah. We bought a couple pieces from a self-trained French Algerian with a studio in... | |
| New streamer needed @stievus got it. I do have some experience with a Wired4Sound modded Sonos unit that I borrowed from a friend a few years ago. It sounds like yours does something very similar to what the W4S unit did, except the latter upsampled with a limit o... | |
| New streamer needed limited, not “likened” | |
| New streamer needed very helpful. You’re right, I don’t know anything about your modded Sonos, but the base Sonoscis likened to 44.1 khz, right? Whereas you DAC can handle up to 192 khz, right? So in theiry, at least on some music, that could explain a difference i... | |
| New streamer needed @audphile1 well I did obviously. I would think you’d want to know something about what his prior experience is before you recommend such significant expenditures, but to each his own. and the use of the term “pathetic” is, again, ad hominem. | |
| New streamer needed @stievus I swear, this is the last time I’m going to ask; I’m doing so because it might help me and others understand your situation and give you the feedback you’ve asked for. What was or were the exact streamer(s) - brand(s) and model(s) - th... | |
| New streamer needed @audphile1 “Don’t you love it when you ask for advice and you get a response claiming that you’re pretty much delusional because what you hear, none of that is real, it’s all in your head. The details, transparency and depth is all confirmation ... | |
| New streamer needed @stievus I am totally lost here. I was asking you what was the 10-year old streamer that you had that you said no longer works? Are you saying that your Accuphase has streaming capability? Or were you using a server of some sort that fed your ... | |
| New streamer needed I may be in over my head here, but I don’t understand how you were streaming previously. If I’m not mistaken, the Accuphase is a CD player (i.e., both a transport and an internal DAC), but it doesn’t have streaming ability does it? And based upo... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @chrisoshea lol! I can promise you that not a penny of your funds will go to legal expenses (though my wife is a lawyer). | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @tonywinga Yes, by all accounts, the windows in my big rig are supposed to be hugely detrimental. And yes, it’s a gorgeous room, so there’s no way I’m ever covering that view up. But somehow it works really well, perhaps in part due to the upw... | |
| New streamer needed The pro-ject is designed to facilitate the direct connection of an external drive to a usb input, and I think the iFi is as well. not sure about the others I referenced, but you should check. Regarding the difference in sound you heard, there are... | |
| New streamer needed oh, btw, totally disagree with @ghdprentice regarding the long-term prospects of Roon (keeping in mind what I’ve already said, which is that I’m a fan). Roon very powerfully integrates your cd collection, burned on a NAS and/or residing on a dedi... | |
| New streamer needed ugh. There are so many threads on this exact topic, just in the last month. You should do a search on the topic. But, in a nutshell, there are two separate camps on this topic lurking here on this forum. One argues that spending a significan... |