mgrif104
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| Point of higher priced streamer? Sangbro: May I suggest you go back and read your postings? I, too, have a healthy sense of skepticism. Further, I don’t enjoy throwing money around - I enjoy saving it. But I also enjoy music immensely and so I feed a hobby which costs more th... | |
| Upgrading power cable to AQ Niagara 5000? Thanks fuzztone and Rodman. I’ll try the cable company in January.Best, | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? I’m really surprised there are so many who say no difference at all. My experience says otherwise. And yes, I have DACs which reject jitter well. My journey started with a fully optimized and dedicated Mac mini for serving music only. I then bo... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please In my own application with my servers (different systems), USB is better sounding than S/PDIF, or AES EBU (same as S/PDIF). So, obviously YMMV. | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cerrot I guess I’m a bit slow. I completely agree you shouldn’t use USB coming out of a computer. But, if you have an N10 to serve your DAC, USB is more than fine depending on the DAC. I was only suggesting that generalizing USB as bad may not ... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cerrot The sound quality of USB is highly system dependent. There are plenty of high quality DACs for which the manufacturer is recommending USB as the preferred connection. Certainly, If I were using a traditional computer as a source, I would a... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cleeds sorry to hear of your experience. My own experience has been quite good. I found the system more stable than the other servers I own and updates effortless. I’m at a loss to explain the difference but it should be noted by the OP. | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please There are a good number of threads attempting to answer this question and you might find it beneficial to look through this forum toward that end. The Aurender N100H is a very good unit - in terms of quality, it’s the middle range of the three se... | |
| NAD M33 Initial Thoughts I have an NAD M12 and M22 - predecessors to the M33 - in one of my systems. It is pretty good gear and it’s my expectation that your M33 is superior. it’s also well known that it takes about 400 hours of break in to achieve the designed performa... | |
| Streaming vs CD transport direct comparison @grannyring I too loved the Roon interface. And it certainly sounded good. It was only when i did a direct comparison that i noticed it was deficient in comparison. And, BTW, I perused the manufacturer's forum and found that many users had the sa... | |
| Streaming vs CD transport direct comparison Interesting comparison and we appreciate you sharing the results. I will say that I directly compared Roon to Lighting DS through my Auralic Aries G2. LDS was significantly better in every regard than Roon which I subsequently dropped.I’m not su... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Roberta Flack - First Take. What a voice! | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? It can be frustrating. If at all possible, connect your Node via Ethernet as opposed to WiFi. My problems went away completely when I did. You can get a bridge or set up a mesh network and plug into the Ethernet ports on one of your waypoints. ... | |
| Simaudio 680D? Hi Deeppurpleman: I stream Qobuz primarily. I’ve also had Tidal but Qobuz sounds a bit better and the depth of their catalogs are converging. I also became annoyed with Tidal’s hip hop centric recommendations.I also have a NAS so I use the Aries ... | |
| Simaudio 680D? I thought the app functionality fine, but the sound of the streamer element of the 390 was a drawback. I was able to feed the unit from my streamer vs the one built in. Not even close. Are you saying that you think it will also be limiting (sou... |