oldschool1948
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| FEDEX keeps destroying my New CARY 805RS Monoblocks - What can I do to prevent Nightmare? I've no longer ship FedEx and wish companies that I buy from would stop using them. I've had two bad experiences: (1) I sold and shipped a NAD M12 pre/DAC, FedEx lost the package. It was found and finally delivered two days late; (2) I sent a B... | |
| Need help choosing a new DAC +1 Audio Mirror Tubadour III SE. I owned one for about a year paired with a SS amp; it is a wonderful sounding DAC. The non-SE version has been discontinued. | |
| HOW CRITICAL ARE JUMPER CABLES Using the same speaker cable for jumpers makes sense to me. In my Tannoy users manual, for single wire mode, it shows amp cables connected to the high frequency drivers with the jumper plate between the high and low frequency drivers. I use Audi... | |
| Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound @dougthebiker I also noticed the Roon experimental version sounded really good. I used it until I inserted a Matrix SPDIF-X between my Zenith MKII and DirectStream DAC to use i2s. For some reason, the experimental version will not recognize the... | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? @OP The BHK250 is a hybrid class A amp. Tube input stage and SS output stage. It runs warm, but not hot. My listening room room is 13x11x8. I am quite happy with mine. | |
| Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound I use a Zenith MKII running Sense in my listening room. I also run Roon core on a Mac mini for whole house stereo. I can also run Roon in my listening room via my PS Audio DirectStream DAC with/ Bridge II. A/B testing Sense and Roon, Roon SQ is... | |
| Weakest digital link: DAC - Streamer - Server? @alexb76 Many, many years ago I ripped my CD library to a Synology NAS using iTunes, installed LMS, and used it for whole house stereo via Squeezebox devices connected to NAD 7140 integrated amps and tower speakers in several rooms. About 4 years... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment GAIA III isolators and spikes for Tannoy DC8Ti speakers Wireworld platinum starlight 8 USB cable from Zenith streamer to Matrix SPDIF-X Magic i2s HDMI cable from Matrix to PS Audio DSD DAC Moving from Roon to Sense in my listening room. Col... | |
| DISCUSSION: "It only comes out at night". Does anyone else have this experience!? For whatever the reason(s), my current system sounds much better at night. I first noticed this back in the 80's when I was stationed in Munich Germany. I'd get off work and turn on my all SS system (Pioneer SPEC-4 power amp, SoundCraftsman EQ/... | |
| What's up with Innuos? For whole house stereo to Riva Wand Airplay speakers on my first and second floors, I put Roon core on an Apple mini. For casual listening that works fine. I prefer Sense SQ over Roon by a wide margin. I get a wider sound stage, a more full bod... | |
| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- The Temptations "Silent Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0mgk0KgI0Q&ab_channel=ChristmasTimeTV | |
| Innuos owners. Chime in I have a Zenith MK2 sitting on Ingress Engineering roller blocks. I'm using it with a 0.6m Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 USB cable into a Matrix X-SPDIF 2 and a 0.7m i2s cable into my PS Audio DSD DAC. I've been using Roon for a number of years... | |
| Different R2R DACs +1 Audio Mirror Tubadour III. I had the Audio Mirror Tubadour III SE. It is an excellent sounding DAC. | |
| In praise of isolation. As a follow-up to my previous post, I installed the Gaia III footers with Gaia footer spikes on my speakers (sitting on carpet over a concrete basement floor). I immediately noticed improved accuracy and detail in instruments and voices. Sounds... | |
| In praise of isolation. I have concrete basement flooring and my gear sits on a Butcher Block Acoustics rack on spikes. The rack is rock solid. I put carpet on my basement listening room floor a couple of weeks ago. My speakers are on spikes. I’m quite happy with my s... |