mswale
Responses from mswale
| 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 ... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? My system gets turned on around 6am, the house is asleep, keep it around 60-65db. Once everyone is up and about, kick it up to 75-80db. My system really wakes up around 90db, the sound stage gets huge, you can start to feel the bass, lots more... | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System Either have the cable repaired, or just replace it. Not worth putting all this time and effort into something you know is bad. | |
| Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus This in a nutshell is why any device like this will be obsolete in a few years. Why you will need either an IT background, or know a IT person to keep these units running long term. You purchased a cheap computer, in a nice case, applied updates... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? This is hard to define, as everyone has different goals. For me, critical listening has a few steps. 1. How quiet the soft passages are the dark space 2. How different the soft from loud parts are, can a cymbal crash make me jump or surprise ... | |
| Experience with stacked subwoofers? Have been using stacked subs in my HT room for almost a year now. Still sorting the room out, and don't have long enough cables to put them in the proper place. To sort out L/C/R speakers, the subs had to move, so they go stacked in the corner o... | |
| Home-Made Multi-Subwoofer S.W.A.R.M System My HT is all Klipsch speakers including 2 subs. Yes, they do fill the room, gain is set to like 3. They go deep, and make a lot of noise, explosions are grand! However, they are on the boomy side for music. Would use them for dance music, but not ... | |
| Streamer recommendation What's wrong with using the Marantz built in? I know it can do Tidal cast. My HT system is a Marantz, Tidal works well on it, sounds good, like seeing album art and info on the TV screen. It is nice to stream multi channel audio on it. It still do... | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? Most vintage gear used carbon film, as they were much cheaper over metal film. Then there are carbon comp resistors that are garbage. We're talking about 1/4 and 1/2w that are the majority in all our gear. The 5w and 10w ceramic resistors are a di... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. More people are consuming music now over any other time in history. That being said, quality is not as important. Most kids use cheap earbuds, or cheap BT speakers. Most young people use Spotify, they do not offer Hi-rez streams. Not sure it's i... |