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| Stream laptop to system I’m streaming from both Qobuz and Idagio. I receive the signal through an Arcam streamer. My stereo rig consists of separates: Benchmark amp and DAC, CJ preamp. GoldenEar speakers, etc.What I want to do is download normal and hi res files from... | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year Does any take Stereophile’s recommendation seriously? Absolutely. Being on the list or not matters to Stereophile readers and it can make or break a product's success. | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year Just repeating another year. The Schiit Aegir already received Stereophile Recommended A rating in 2020. An interesting exercise is to compare the prices of all the A rated power amplifiers. https://www.stereophile.com/content/recommended-componen... | |
| Are these exceptionally well recorded, or what? @yashu , you can find it in the complete set of Rachmaninov Symphonies, Ashkenazy conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on London/Decca.https://open.qobuz.com/album/0002894557982https://tidal.com/browse/album/4512925 | |
| Help me complete my stereo system (Harbeth, ClearAudio Concept). Was reading Darko's review of the P3ESR SE. He should have listened with his ears instead of his eyes and with another product than Heed Class D... Heed doesn't have any class D amplifiers. The Heed Obelisk he used is AB and I agree with him that... | |
| Moving up the Harbeth line In a 12x13 room and listening 7 ft away, the P3ESR should work well. I think that your Blackhawk amplifier at 20w/ch may not be providing enough dynamic headroom. However, I see that it has a built-in high pass crossover that you can engage for th... | |
| Spotify HiFi CD Quality Discontinued my Amazon HD as it isn’t supported by Roon.Spotify HiFi won’t be supported either. Roon would love to integrate with Amazon Music, Spotify and Apple Music, but these services do not allow it. They want to control the user experience, ... | |
| Qobuz pauses and bitrate changes during playback from favorites list You can report the issue on the Qobuz Issues thread on Audiophile Style:https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/46611-official-qobuz-issues-thread/Qobuz staff follow the thread and often post. | |
| Do you need a Roon Ready device to stream Roon? As others have said, it is no problem to connect Nucleus to any DAC on USB. The requirement of Roon Ready is for DACs that connect on a network such as WiFi or Ethernet. You can connect to the Hegel with USB, but not over WiFi until it is certifie... | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic Is airplay lossless via bluetooth connection from my iPhone to aurender ? Airplay streams over WiFi (not Bluetooth), at 16-bit/44.1kHz lossless. If the audio source has a different resolution, it will be resampled to 16/44.1 before transmission. | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic with Primephonic the transition from the middle movement to the final movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 is accomplished the way Beethoven intended -- with no interruption. Qobuz, sorry to say, takes an axe to the transition, inserting a... | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic I’m pretty sure that none of the streaming services have complete operas.I subscribe to Spotify, Tidal, and Qobuz. All three have a huge number of complete operas. The ultimate example: they all have many versions of the complete Wagner Ring cycle... | |
| Does room temperature affect your sound? Alan Shaw has discussed on Harbeth's forum about ambient temperature affecting test measurements. Temperature affects the stiffness of rubber surrounds in cone drivers, and also absorption quality of materials in the room (including insulation in ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears, there are 4 albums of Mompou playing his own music, on the Ensayo and Brilliant labels. Available on streaming (Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Apple). | |
| Reference Recordings Personally I enjoy their more distant, minimalist miking which is like what I hear at live classical concerts, but I can understand that not everybody wants that type of presentation for home listening. |