mswale
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| Need to get off of bluetooth.... looking for a wifi streamer for my budget With $500, the "best" option is a Cambridge Audio MXN10, it should fit all your requirements. I took all my Apple Music, put it on an external disk, plugged that into my streamer. For sound quality, you need Tidal, or Qobuz, playing direct on ... | |
| Buying used from Canada No idea when we started to collect sales tax on used good, but we are now doing it. Things are changing all the time, no one really knows what's going on it's chaos. Ordered some record sleeves from Canada early in the year, it was a $60 order, ... | |
| Maximize Mini with Roon to match my system -- or new component? Ditch the Mini, not worth dumping a lot of money into it. Any streamer you purchase will require updates, and will have a EOL date. They are basically computers, will not last the test of time like other products. As soon as the "app" leaves the a... | |
| Looking for Some Music Server Advice If it's not all that important to you, it's not a primary source, just get a true RAID array NAS. Or if you can, put it all on a SSD drive, then hook up directly to your streamer. Did the NAS thing, then went to an external drive, honestly, with... | |
| Options to improve digital sound @signaforce That isn't what I said at all. Cheap mesh is crap. If you look at the FCC tag, then look up the radio spec, most of them are under .1w of power, the CPU parts are inferior, do not handle handoff, or more then a couple devices at once... | |
| HiFiaholics Anonomous! Feel you, thought my amp was going out, panicked, drove 8 hours to pick up another pre & power amp. Got home hooked it up, to find that when my sub was added that the left cable was put in reverse polarity . My setup was in fact perfect, just... | |
| Wi Fi Digital Source Think the issue is one device is playing the music through the streamer, and the other is having the music playing on the streamer and using the device to control it. There is a huge difference between Tidal on a phone, and Tidal Connect on my s... | |
| Leave it on? Interesting, inrush current having an affect on cap life. That is also not any kind of spec on caps. What is a spec is time, temp and voltage. On tubes, they also do not like heat, or voltage spike/changes. There are devices that stop inrush cur... | |
| Options to improve digital sound So, Roon not cpu intensive. Many monitor their cpu utilization in real time and report relatively high utilization with Roon vs other music players. Also I directly monitor cpu usage via Euphony OS, I can do this by direct connection to stream... | |
| Options to improve digital sound Roon Core is where vast majority of processing goes on, the relatively complex interface of Roon is processor intensive. CPU's working at relatively high rates creates more noise and higher latency, both are enemies of resolution Higher latency ... | |
| Options to improve digital sound Mac fanboy, have all their products. However, for music, I do not use any Mac gear, except my iPhone to control my streamer. Going to suggest, removing the Mini, replacing it with a quality streamer. Don't change anything else yet. Just get used... | |
| Audio influencers on YouTube hiding comments from public view Is anyone surprised that youtube is just a commercial that you volunteer to watch? They are just shaping the comments to fit the narrative of what they are selling. Sadly, it's not just Youtube, feel like most of the world is doing this now. You... | |
| Help please! Something amiss with my digital chain You need a pre-amp, or a streamer with a built in pre-amp. This will provide the biggest difference, more so over anything else. Do not get any WiFi mesh gear, they are all crap unless you get enterprise grade hardware. If you have strong WiFi... | |
| Qobuz vs Airplay Think if you are streaming from an Apple product that is directly connected it will sound far better over Airplay. In my car, there is almost no difference between, Tidal, Apple, and Spotify. It's not a revealing system. On my 2ch system, all 3 ... | |
| New vs uses in your current setup Interesting discussion. 90% used, 10% new. My setup is almost all vintage, only things new are my streamer, some cables (others are hand me downs from a audiophile friend), power cords. I did do a full referb on my pre & power amp, put in ... |