oldschool1948
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| Sound quality of Roon @nyev To me Sense sounds slightly too bloated or “filled-in” to me, with all of the space and air around vocals and instruments removed when compared with Roon. I think you are the only person that likes Roon over Sense on a Zenith. Just kiddi... | |
| What Digital to Digital Converter Do You Use? Why? I use a Matrix X SPDIF 2 between my Innous Zenith MKII streamer and PS Audio Direct Stream DAC. For I2S, I use a .7 meter Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 HDMI cable. I get a very noticeable SQ improvement via I2S as opposed to USB from the Zenith... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... ++1 Roberta Flack Randy Crawford | |
| Sound quality of Roon +1, @grannyring I use both Roon and Sense. I have a PS Audio Direct Stream DAC w/ Bridge II and Innous Zenith MKII streamer. I bought the Zenith about 5 years ago and a life time Roon subscription. On the Zenith, I did A/B testing between Ro... | |
| Your experience in "in their day" brands/components that you remember foundly? While stationed in Germany between 1979 and 1987, I bought the following equipment: Teac X-10R R2R, Pioneer PL-1000 TT with Pickering cartridge, Technics SL-1200 TT with Pickering cartridge, Rodec SM 200 mixer, Pioneer SPEC-4 power amp, SoundCraf... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @ghdprentice Very nicely stated and quite true! | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES I use Roon and Innous Sense as my music front ends. Regardless of front end, I find Qobuz better sounding than Tidal in general, but not by much. Using a PS Audio DSD DAC, I find little difference between Qobuz HiRes and Tidal MQA. I listen to T... | |
| What do you use to keep high gloss speakers clean? +1 McGuire's Quick Detail I use a microfiber cloth to wipe down the speakers. On another note, I do the same on our high-gloss bedroom furniture and the wood trim in our cars. | |
| Bascom H. King Passed Sad to hear about his passing. Like others, I am really happy to own and thoroughly enjoy his BHK reference pre amp and BHK250 amp. My prayers go out to his family and friends. | |
| Choosing a network player/streamer OP, take a look at Innous streamers. Innous makes excellent streamers at varying price points. Innous streamers come with the Sense music app, which sounds better than Roon - IMHO and Sense is FREE. Sense is easy to use and integrates with Quobu... | |
| Dust cover up or down? I have a Technics 1200G. I've always played with the cover down. For my own satisfaction, I'm going to try with it up and off to see if I can hear a difference. | |
| Favorite religious song "Touch The Hem Of His Garment" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke | |
| Turn off or leave on? I leave my TT, network streamer, and power conditioner on 24/7x365. I will turn them off in an electrical storm (even though I have a whole house surge protector) and when on vacation. I turn my hybrid preamp, hybrid power amp, DAC and phono pre... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s My positive experience with Gia footers and spikes: Carpet Killed High Frequencies | |
| I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day I stopped using FedEx when I checked on a preamp delivery and it was marked as delivered but wasn’t. I called FedEx and was told that late in the day drivers might mark something as delivered when they plan to deliver it the next day. Since I pa... |