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| Whats your favourite track to play to the non hi-fi visitor? Bump. This is too good a thread to let die.Another suggestion: John Adams' "Short Ride on a Fast Machine" played by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. | |
| Great Experience with Feickert Protractor It looks so good I wonder whether it doesn't come out of the same factory. It would not be the first time that has happened to a US or European firm outsourcing to China. | |
| Streaming vs CD transport direct comparison FWIW, I found that ripping CDs to a USB hard disk and playing them through a lap-top running JRiver and out by USB to a DAC definitely improved the SQ over playing the same disks on an Oppo 105 and out through coax into the DAC. And ripping SACDs... | |
| Bluesound vs SOtM I use an SOtM as a DLNA bridge with JRiver on a laptop. It works beautifully. The important thing is to not have your music run through the computer.SOtM USA is having a black Friday sale. They also have an easy return policy.Are you certain th... | |
| Is a balanced XLR cable inherently less critical than a single ended RCA one? I have 25' runs of balanced interconnect between preamplifier and amplifier. I tried three different pairs. They all sound different. One was best. For me it was NOS Discovery Cable. | |
| Whats your favourite track to play to the non hi-fi visitor? "Danny Boy" from Album: "Three's Company We'll Be Together Again" (at 96/24) Javon Jackson, Ron Carter, Billy DrummondYou'll know if your system can handle an acoustic bass up close. | |
| Analog vs digital? @nzastro," Bugger! Now I feel like I have to try n improve the digital streaming.It's a bummer when you have a fussy personality!Could a dedicated hard wired (cat6) streamer/storage unit improve the listening experiance? As I said earlier I'm new... | |
| Analog vs digital? I used to think the same until I learned more about digital and put more into it. My enjoyment is now equal with a nod to digital for convenience. These days I think of the DAC (with the Singxer) as the phono pre and everything before the USB i... | |
| Oppo 105 with DIY LPM is a giant killer (no dac needed) "However, there is still a "digital glare" present when using the Oppo strictly as a transport to send digital output to an external DAC."In my own experience, and with my own external DAC, I have proven this not to be true. Or to put it another ... | |
| Oppo 105 with DIY LPM is a giant killer (no dac needed) At the moment I use my Oppo 105 only to play videos and as a go-between my computer and a TV. It makes a great digital renderer by the way and I was using it as one for DLNA before I got something better. CDs and SACDs are copied to a hard disk.I ... | |
| My Oppo is a bit too bright As I discovered, it doesn't take much these days to get a DAC that will outperform the DAC section of the Oppo 105. So I agree with the others that an external DAC may get you what you are looking for. But I disagree on the suggestion that the f... | |
| Digital Bottom Feeding The OP missed the best inexpensive USB cable out there. Monolith by Monoprice USB Digital Audio Cable. Silverplated solid core. Needs some break-in. Compare to Audioquest. | |
| has anyone tried chinese cables? @thyname,Are speaker wire configurations protectable; are they patented?At the Nordost site I see a complete description of the construction of these cables, but no reference to any patent that I can find.So is there any intellectual property (IP... | |
| Parasound JC2 vs Rogue RP-7 The Parasound has no balance control. That ruled it out for me. The pair of gain controls just don't hack it. | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. For my Fosgate Sig phono-pre Musical Surroundings used to provide Chinese 6922 tubes whose principal quality was that they were especially quiet. The pre is all tube w/60db gain, no solid state, no SUT. The pre (while still great) has not been mad... |