mgrif104
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| Experience with Linn Select DSM? Azbird: I’m envious. I’m sure the Klimax DSM is spectacular! But, it’s outside of my budget. Would love to hear one side by side the lessor units. Someday.I’m thinking your right that I should skip the amplifier section and just go with the str... | |
| Experience with Linn Select DSM? AzbirdThanks for the feedback. One of the reasons I’m interested is because Linn’s commitment and longevity in streaming. Which unit do you have? I’m comfortable with the notion that the akurate DAC is probably better than what I have and that ... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more I might suggest you look at the NAD M12. Part of their masters series, it does everything you want, or has plug in modules to do everything want. I have the unit in one system, PS audio Stellar DAC/Pre in another and Parasound Halo gear in a 3rd.... | |
| Speakers for restaurant You didn’t mention your budget, where you plan on placing the speakers and how you might like to place/mount them.I’ve seen restaurants use in wall/in ceiling speakers but these require many more units and generally don’t sound particularly good o... | |
| Kef Ref 3 or Focal Kanta 2 I’ll add my $.02 worth of opinion/bias here. Speaker preferences are just that - bias and opinion resulting in preference. Both are very well respected lines. Toward that end, regarding Focal: Are they detailed? Check. Transparent? Check. Dynam... | |
| Sonus Faber: Amati Futura vs. Serafino Tradition DJFST: I’m actually looking at similar speakers. I’m considering the Olympica III because I think they’re good enough for the system I’m considering (a log cabin w/ a large room and difficult to sort out anomalies). However, in my view, the Sera... | |
| Paradigm Persona series I’m with twoleftears on these points. 1) I love the sound of an orchestra live - it’s never shrill even though there’s a lot of high frequency information. 2) one set of my speakers has a metal dome tweeter and I’ll never make that mistake agai... | |
| PS Audio vs NAD M12 I have the PS Audio Stellar Pre/DAC in one system and the NAD M12 in another system and a Parasound Halo system in a 3rd system. The OP is, I believe, interested in a different PS audio system than what I have, but I’d suggest they consider the S... | |
| Streamer/DAC combo or stand alone DAC with Node2? Oldschool: good question. I had a couple of reasons. I wasn’t sure that the MDC was as supported and updatable for the OS as the Node 2 and the price was about the same. Further, I had a different preamp and dac in there when I originally bough... | |
| Need DAC/Streaming Advice Like others, I had a great deal of difficulty with connectivity of a Bluesound Node 2. I think (hope, pray) that I’ve permanently solved that by putting an access point (google Wifi mesh) and connecting the Node via Ethernet. It’s been stable si... | |
| Streamer/DAC combo or stand alone DAC with Node2? I think my experience might be helpful to this discussion. I have a Node 2 going into an NAD Masters M12 Pre/DAC - which is a pretty nice DAC. I’ve had some issues with networking via Wifi w/ the Node 2 but that was solved (I hope permanently) b... | |
| Aurelic G2 or Aurender N10 Nekoaudio: thanks for the recommendation. I considered the Lumin U1 but it requires an Ethernet connection like the Aurender - something I was hoping to avoid if I could. If I were to run an ethernet cable under the floor (hard in this place) to ... | |
| Aurelic G2 or Aurender N10 Uberwaltzthanks for the feedback. This is helpful. Interestingly, I’ve had two dealers of Aurelic try to steer me away. I’m not sure either had actual experience with recent units, but I think the company didn’t treat the dealers well and that ... | |
| Aurelic G2 or Aurender N10 Can we add the Simaudio Mind 2 to the discussion? Anybody with any experience with that unit? Reliability, stability and sound?Thanks,mgrif | |
| Aurelic G2 or Aurender N10 I forgot to mention that one of the significant downsides to the Aurender as a solution is the limitation of their app running on an iPad only (no phone versions). When our adult children visit the place, they would like to be able to run the app... |