mgrif104
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| Made the Move and Not looking back! @boostedis You make a great point. However, as I stated in my previous post, I wasn’t using any DSP through Roon. The comparison I did was Auralic’s LDS playing a specific file and then Roon on my Auralic unit playing the exact same file. I trie... | |
| Made the Move and Not looking back! Similar experience here with Auralic and their Lightning DS music management software. I had Roon - loved the interface and meta data. But, when I compared the exact same Qobuz files over Roon vs Lightning DS, (no processing - so it was a fair co... | |
| user poll on seperates vs integrated In my view, an integrated amp need not be a compromise. You can get very high performance if desired. T+A, CH Precision, Audionet, VAC, etc. all make exceptional integrated amps without significant compromise. While it’s likely that their separa... | |
| Shootout: Roon versus Plex, Qobuz versus Tidal: Who Won? Great post. I’ll add my experience/experiment from 2 years ago. So, things may have changed. I subscribed to Tidal. When Qobuz became widely available, I subscribed to it, too. A few months in, I decided to listen to the same music on both servic... | |
| Auralic Vega G2.1 vs Lumin T3 Sorry it’s taken so long to respond. I have direct experience w/ the Vega G2.1 - I own it. So, take my experience with a grain of salt as we all tend to promote what we purchased as justification. Please note, I had previously auditioned the L... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report Well, reading through this thread, I’m now wishing I had spent more time. As a first timer with just a half day, I was a bit rushed and very selective in what I stopped to see/hear. I clearly missed a bunch. As I noted previously, I was disappoi... | |
| Vinnie Rossi @benzman Interestingly, I heard the Brama/Rockport setup and came away disappointed. It didn’t sound “sorted out” to me. I’m familiar with and like Rockports very much, but thought the speakers too close for listening. And, to me, it sounded bri... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report @ronboco Agreed - would also like to hear the Lyra - and the new Orion. I’m sure they’re spectacular. But, too big and too expensive for my smallish room. | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report @ronboco The room I saw them in were the Atria IIs showing with Vinnie Rossi Brama electronics. I understand they were in another room but I didn’t get to that one. Rockports are one of my favorites - so it was pretty disappointing. The room wa... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report First time attending for me. I went on Saturday and hit rooms I had mapped out earlier. Some really quick observations: Kyomi Audio - showing MBLs and easily the best set up I heard while there. I will be speaking to George further about the sp... | |
| KEF Blade 2 Meta Sorry I misunderstood the crux of the question. With respect to bi-wire or not, I will note the built in jumpers on the KEF are vastly better than what I’ve experienced with other speakers. Nevertheless, it also appears to me to be somewhat bene... | |
| KEF Blade 2 Meta I don’t know if this will help you, but I offer it in case it might. I have the KEF Reference 3s which are voiced similarly to the Blades (I’ve compared them directly - exact same system - just plugged the bananas in one vs. the other). I’m less... | |
| I have NOVA V's and I am not happy I had a similar problem that revealed itself when i listened to Mahler symphonies which I believed to be bright sounding on the peaks. I thought about it a lot and tried some isolation pucks under my gear and was able to tame the problem. Vibra... | |
| Power conditions for Integrated Amps I have a nice integrated amp, previously had separates. I plug all into an AQ Niagara 5000 which has a current bank so it doesn’t limit, but actually can improve dynamics. After plugging things in, I noticed an immediate and significant reductio... | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? I don’t mean this to be rude - but this question has been asked many times in this forum and I’d suggest you will find it helpful to review the previous discussions. Or, you may find it particularly unhelpful as there are a number of posters who g... |