p05129
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| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? Never go wifi over a wired connection. Also, have you looked at the specs of AirPlay 2? You are limited to 16/44 which is terrible. Wired there is no audio limits. I would use airplay 2 for background music only, thru a HomePod. Any better playb... | |
| How good is good enough? OP-can’t you ask this same question for most things in life? How about a house? Is $300k for a house good enough or is the $800k house better? How about cars/trucks? Do you like a cheap Sentra or want to move up the chain to a Porsche? Both will g... | |
| magnepan I’m surprised they are still in business. When the 30.7’s were coming out, I called and talked to Wendell about the 30.7’s and he told me people were buying these sight unseen and he was trying the hard sell on the 30.7’s. I told him, they would h... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? There are many websites like ANA and even here on agon that have people think their $299 stereo amp has the best sq of anything out there or that cables don’t matter. But on those naysayer websites, I’ve questioned them many times about why they a... | |
| Help with streamer software The ps audio provides superior output interfaces like i2s which Aurender doesn’t. As for the Aurender software, it’s terrible compared to Lightning DS, Lumin, audirvana, and of course Roon. And I would bet 99% of all Aurender users use usb output ... | |
| Roon and Streaming Services When I switched from tidal to Qobuz, Qobuz provided a program called soundiiz and after running it, 99% of everything converted over. Some artists I have found don’t let Qobuz play certain tracks but they allowed today to play them. | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality I sold my reference quality cd player 15 years ago because ripped music sounded better using 3rd party software like Pure Music. I still have a Sony $1500 SACD/cd player that I have used maybe 5 times in the last 10 years. With high res files and ... | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." Mahgister-what makes you think you are the only 1 that knows certain things? For most of us that spend tens of thousands of dollars on gear, don’t you think these same people know how to treat their room? The room is a must to do right first. A go... | |
| Best RCA interconnect up to ~$100? There aren’t any good cables around the $100 mark. I tried some of the best Blie Jean cables instead of my reference just to see what people were excited about. They were gone in no time. Save your money and get a good set of cables that you can k... | |
| W4S DAC I had the upgraded w4s dsd dac over a decade ago. 6 years ago, I thought it was better than my friends $13k msb analog dac. I sold the w4s over 5 years ago and bought a much better dac for $4k and then moved up to a highly reviewed dac for $8k. | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? All good cables sound different to me, some better than others. I stay away from silver wired cables. | |
| Help with Bricasti M3 - Get rid of wifi and hook up an Ethernet cable instead | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! 99% of these respondents probably use usb to the dac, and if this is the case, the best sound you will get is mediocre at best. Change your test: get a dac that uses Ethernet (which is far superior than usb) and test different servers. Your resul... | |
| KEF LS60 with a pair of KC62s v Blade 2 I just listened to all the Kef’s mentioned here. The LS50 Wii sounded ok before you turned up the volume then things got really distorted, even with the different settings on the kc62 sub. Maybe a higher crossover point would have taken some of th... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. You start with the room 1st. I built a room within a room in a custom house and the room plus treatments were $60,000, before spending 1 dime on electronics. When you are designing a custom home with a custom audio room, it’s cheaper to do things ... |