mwatsme
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| What other hobby... Motorcycling and occasionally making videos, here’s one I made for a friend a few years ago... https://vimeo.com/user10883022/marc-and-woody-ride-the-dragonHeaded out tomorrow to ride the full length of US129 - Knoxville TN to Cheifland FL. Wife a... | |
| Wanting to test my system's (and room) ability to recreate bells - any suggestions? @elevick Tubular Bells is apparently The Exorcist theme or the movie Holloween - or both. And who would have guessed there would be so many versions! That could make for an interesting Holloween rave party! One of my favorites... "Brand Blank Dubs... | |
| Shipping. Hard Lesson. Agree, units must be packaged very well according to their size and weight. Double-boxed, ideally with cushion between the boxes, and always tight. I received an ATI amp once wrapped in bubble and loose in a single box - bent rack-mount ears and d... | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming @ jmphotography I too have Asus AC3100 (AWESOME router!) and NAD C388 w/BluOS2i MDC module (essentially same as Node 2i) connected by WiFi.Whatever Ethernet cable (Cat 5e/6/7/8/etc.) proponents say about improved SQ is BS. WiFi with the specific u... | |
| Recommendations for Blu-ray Player Think I can find what I'm looking for if I relent on the coax output, and use the optical input to miniDSP4x10HD instead.I don't remember precisely why SPDIF optical is not as good as SPDIF coax - I just remember reading several comments where AES... | |
| Recommendations for Blu-ray Player @bkeske wow, that sounds like a big plate of spaghetti cabling. Think I'd have to see a drawing to comprehend it properly.Yes, we too (like many others) cut the cable when Netflix went online - 2008'ish. So it's been... over a decade? How can that... | |
| Recommendations for Blu-ray Player @fuzztone AmazonUHD = Amazon Prime Music Ultra High Definition it's kind of like Tidal Masters or whatever other HD streaming services are out there.@bkeske think those devices have HDMI out only. For audio, I need it to be coax - the HDMI will co... | |
| Greater knowledge of Agon community for streamer/pre-amp solution Thank you all for the recommendations.Think I've solved the issue by adding HDMI-2 NAD MDC module, and plan to strip the audio and convert to coax, which will feed the nanoDIGI. I have validated the stream does come out from the HDMI outputs of t... | |
| Greater knowledge of Agon community for streamer/pre-amp solution BTW, NAD M32 will not pass BluOS signal through to the coax output - says in the manual.Seems the next best option is getting Node2i (for AmazonHD streamer) coax output.Until then, I added an HDMI-2 MDC module to my NAD C388 (now fully-loaded with... | |
| Step-up from Node2i for native AmazonHD streaming? If there is no AmazonHD-capable streamer/preamp with coax in and coax out, then I'll have to get seperate components. Node2i (streamer) and seperate digital+analog preamp. What preamps have coax in (and other typical inputs including decent MM pho... | |
| Greater knowledge of Agon community for streamer/pre-amp solution I just found a note in the NAD M32 user manual that says it will not route BluOS signal through digital (SPDIF) outputs.Looks like it will have to be a separates: Node2i and yet-to-be-discovered preamp with coax in and out (along with all the othe... | |
| Step-up from Node2i for native AmazonHD streaming? @djones51 yes that is likely, and the STR.the STR doesn't have coax out - maybe the AVR does. | |
| Greater knowledge of Agon community for streamer/pre-amp solution @verdantaudio thanks, but coax output is the only feature I'm missing now with the C388 w/BluOS2i & HDMI-2 MDC modules. This one missing output is the cause of this search. Basically, I'm looking for everything I have in the C388, plus one coa... | |
| Step-up from Node2i for native AmazonHD streaming? @djones yes, I’ve seen the Amazon list before, and figured my best bet was Sound United group. Denon doesn’t seem to have anything (didn’t look through the AVRs), Marantz has so many models - I looked through a few categories and didn’t find anyth... | |
| Step-up from Node2i for native AmazonHD streaming? Questioning the choice of Topping E30 DACs opens other options.A matched pair of stereo DACs is required. They need DAC-only function, but could also have pre-amp features and headphone amp; however, those extra features will not be used. I haven'... |