mike_in_nc
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| Upgrades that met/exceeded your expectations and those that felt short Exceeded: Switching, years ago, from a conrad-johnson MF-2300 amplifier to a Bryston B14-SST. Wow! Everything was better: dynamics, clarity, bass, smoothness, imaging.Exceeded: Adding a Torus RM-20 power unit to feed my power amp. Despite my skept... | |
| streamer That's a nice CD player!I have an Auralic Aries G1, and I like it a lot. I compared it to the Bricasti M5, and I couldn't tell the difference. They are both really good streamers. Of course, there are many others on the market, too. | |
| Parasound HINT vs. Bryston 135-3 or Simaudio 340i D3PX Not everyone agrees with @stereo5 that the Bryston is bright. I have heard a couple of all-Bryston systems that were stunning. The cubed units are especially refined and NOT bright sounding. That is based on my own 4B3, and also dozens of reviews.... | |
| Amazon HD streaming service ... I tried Amazon HD but dropped it. It would not let me get best-quality output on my PC, nor would it send output to a network renderer (streamer). If you look around, you will find those complaints repeated by many. That makes Amazon HD a great so... | |
| streamer Different products entirely. Roon ROCK is software that can run on the Roon Nucleus, a small, silent computer for running Roon core (ROCK is a version of Roon core). I understand it also can have output to your DAC, so if it’s in the same room as ... | |
| Your system quality vs. recording quality Indeed. | |
| MoOde I tried it once, briefly, but I found Volumio easier to deal with. | |
| Amplifier warm up Really? I'm the only one who thinks, seriously, that having dinner is going to change one's perceptions just as truly as an amplifier's warm-up? (I know if I'm waiting to eat, I respond to music a lot less happily than after a nice dinner.) | |
| Help! Anthem STR preamp ARC sounds bad now compared to off I can't believe the phasing is only applied to profile 1, that's crazy. I agree, and I consider it a bug. I was hoping that Anthem had fixed it by now. My subs have their own phase controls, which I adjusted by another method; the result is that... | |
| Acoustic panels: ATS vs GIK In my experience, ASC has provided higher quality construction than GIK, but at higher cost. I’ve used both companies happily and also have a few BAD panels from RPG and some diffusers from Vicoustic. I have not used ATS yet; didn’t know they exis... | |
| Help! Anthem STR preamp ARC sounds bad now compared to off @dtximages - Yes, the phase adjustment is applied only to Profile 1. That is documented exactly nowhere, but I discovered it when I noticed Profiles 2-4 were deficient in bass. (I've reported it to Anthem as a bug.) As I mentioned, you can use the... | |
| Help! Anthem STR preamp ARC sounds bad now compared to off Hard to say, but if you post your PDF file, I’ll take a look. I have an STR preamp, also.Are you aware, the phase adjustment should be made with the mic at the main listening position,should be made AFTER you have uploaded the corrections,and AFTE... | |
| Amplifier warm up Gear warms up, sure, = and you were more relaxed after dinner. Any chance you had a drink with it? | |
| Soundlab Dynastats @decooney I hope to own a pair of nice SoundLabs some day. :) When I had the space, I didn’t have the funds. Now I have the funds (at least for a good used pair), I don’t have the space. Oh, well -- I hope you do get a nice pair! | |
| Soundlab Dynastats You might try the Sound Lab Owners' Group. |