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| Inexpensive streaming amplifier Get a PS Audio Sprout 100 integrated with an external Apple TV 4K box and your system will sound better that the Powernode and the Apple TV 4K piece will give you more flexibility for streaming music and tv. This is the setup I use in my living ro... | |
| Ripping CD's to SSD? What a PITA! I remember when I had to do this before I got rid of my unit. You don’t need the usb stick, point XLD to your linked network drive which is the aurender disk. BTW: how many of you aurender users backup your aurender disk drives that ... | |
| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? “Now "audiophile" ethernet switches are designed to improve delivery of error free bits to the streamer by use of improved power supplies, grounding, shielding, clocking, and other methods.” Switches don’t improve the error free delivery, all pac... | |
| Moving on a sailboat - bookshelf speakers? Check out the Usher mini-x with the Diamond tweeter and 7” mid/woofer or a cheaper usher, you could get the x-719 or the s-250, I still have some of these and sold some. a nice integrated amp that has the power to power any of these speakers and ... | |
| Appropriate Apple table for Roon Roon is pretty easy to set up. You can use an iPad or an iPhone or even a Mac as the users device to play music. You will need a computer to run Roon core, an old Mac mini with a ssd drive and 16G of ram will work. A $200 raspberry pi will also wo... | |
| cheapest speaker made in the last 10 year that can beat any speaker made before 1970? I wouldn’t own any speaker that is over 10 years old. I had some of the top of the line speakers for their day (50 years ago and newer) and wouldn’t even think about owning any of them now. There have been many advancements in speakers in the las... | |
| Best Forum to hear experienced audiophiles exchange thoughts? Audiogon used to be but not in the top 5 anymore. I rate agon a step up from ANA. As far as magazines, they all are pretty bad. Have you ever seen a review in the last couple of years that haven’t ended with it stating: 1) using this reviewed co... | |
| pS Audio is dealer only now I guess.. I’m using a vpn and I can add the new mkii dac to my cart to purchase. | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Kind of hard to recommend equipment when you said nothing about your room. If you don’t have a good room then you will be wasting your money. if you have a smallish room then it would be foolish to recommend a large floorstanding speaker and if y... | |
| user poll on seperates vs integrated All integrateds are a compromise, they have to be, and this could be a good or bad thing. No integrated that I know of has the exact same phono preamp guts of their best separates. Same for dac, preamp, and amp. But the good thing about integrate... | |
| How rare is an audiophile Being an audiophile has nothing to do with lp sales, lp is just a very small group that likes to listen to vinyl. Not a big deal. Being a musician doesn't mean that you will never have decent equipment to play music on (I’ve been a musician for ov... | |
| Roon….The Gordon Knot of concierge musical services? If you don’t want to do the little computer work to setup a server (setting up osx or linux, configure the disks for music and backups, and preferably using i2s or network to your dac) then buy a music server, but your job isn’t over even if you b... | |
| Roon….The Gordon Knot of concierge musical services? Most people don’t know how to setup a good quality network in your house. Most people get a modem/router from the IP and they are off and running. I did enterprise networks in the late 80’s/early 90’s and there are configurations that need to be s... | |
| Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component? Pretty simple: my audio system has to stay within the cost of my current sports car, < $125k. It’s a compromise my wife and I made years ago, 1 hobby can’t be more expensive than the cost of the other. Also, must pay cash for everything. Don’t ... | |
| Lumin U2 mini vs Mac laptop sound test Software is the main difference. I went the external streamer route then went back. Roon on any OS vs Audirvana on Linux, that’s the test you want to do. |