mdalton
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| Volti v Charney v Rethm I’ve heard the Volti and the Rethm Trishna, both in show conditions, one year apart, the Volti with Border Patrol amplification, the Rethm driven by the new Western Ekectric integrated. I liked them both, but loved the Rethm. I find myself incre... | |
| Jazz Mount Rushmore so many, but the OP started with specific lps, so in that spirit, not already mentioned: Grant Green, Idle Moments Miles Davis, Round About Midnight Jim Hall, Concierto Ben Webster, Meets Oscar Peterson, or, Soulville Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben... | |
| New streamer needed The one thing that’s factual and clearly knowable is what exactly is happening to the digital data stream in your two use cases. Without knowing that for sure, I believe it’s difficult to make a decision on what you want for a streamer, because y... | |
| New streamer needed in other words, I don’t think you’re hearing the streamer, I think you’re hearing the upsampling, which you don’t like. am guessing the cd transport sounds more natural to you, but just a guess. | |
| 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... | |
| 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... |