melvinjames
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| What makes speaker's sound big? Mark & Daniels. I have the 1st gen Maximus-Ruby. They use their own version of the AMT driver and a 5" woofer (crossover at 900Hz). Terribly inefficient but with a proper amp they have amazing dynamics and soundstage. The 2nd gen is supposedly... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazzpersonal library | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Charles Lloyd "The Water is Wide"QobuzWith Brad Mehladu, John Abercrombie, Larry Grenadier, and Billy Higgins. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Jan Garbarek - Bobo Stenson Quartet "Witchi-Tai-To"QobuzExploring some old ECM titles. This one from 1974 is said to be one ECM's best. With Palle Danielsson (bass) and Jon Christensen (drums). | |
| Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy Your comments are always tinged with a bit of healthy skepticism. Keep following your nose and like many others you might discover that in audio, price in not always a good indicator of product performance especially in digital audio.+1 .. and don... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Eyolf Dale "Being"Qobuz (24/96) | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - The Unforgettable NHØP Trio LiveQobuz | |
| iPhone/iPad good as a source, or get a streamer? iDevices have surprisingly good sound quality when bypassing the on-board DAC as you’re doing. That said, to my ears streaming via my microRendu > DAC sounds better than my iDevices into the same DAC using the CCK connection. It’s noticeable, b... | |
| Two subwoofers for two channel music listening The only proper way to hook up subwoofers is with a dedicated two way subwoofer crossover preferably digital. The preamp outputs go to the crossover which will have dedicated main amp and sub amp outputs all line level. This rolls off the main spe... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & TraneQobuz (24/192) | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Lee Ritenour "Dreamcatcher"Qobuz (24/96) | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Mike Bono "Familiar Places"Qobuz (24/88.2) | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Emmet Cohen "Future Stride"Qobuz (24/96)Although I'm a fan of Emmet I'm not sure about this one. He's a gifted pianist for sure but the ragtime influenced stride just isn't my thing. Some tracks (i.e., "Second Time Around", "My Heart Stood Still")... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Ahmad Jamal's "Alhambra"Qobuz | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Joe Sample "Old Places Old Faces"Qobuz |