randymaqp
Responses from randymaqp
| Whole home audio - wired or wireless? I use BlueSound devices and really like the setup. My outdoor speakers are wired but driven by Nodes. Living area is a pair of Puse 2i’s set up as stereo and the remainder are Pulse M’s in various rooms as well as the garages. | |
| Aurender N20 versus Innuos Zen NG @ghdprentice , I really haven’t heard anything negative about Innuos. Can you elaborate? | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices I researched this a little and came to the same conclusion: PS Audio or McIntosh. Since I’m already in the McIntosh camp with a C55 (which also has the MCT connection), that’s the way I’m leaning. I’m very curious to see what others have to say. | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I am absolutely finished after I install the new speaker cables I ordered last week. Although they may expose a weakness in my standard power cables. So definitely after I evaluate new power cables. Of course, plugging in new power cables into... | |
| 1 meter speaker cables I did exactly that: I demoed 10’ cables and bought 4’ versions. They both sounded the same to me (after break-in). However, several weeks had passed between the demo and listening to my new, broken-in cables, so YMMV. | |
| How many times can u visit a hifi store before it annoys the store if u plan on a purchase Go as often as you want. Maybe don’t waste their time auditioning equipment you never intend to buy, but don’t feel guilty about making sure that you’ll be happy with a future purchase. If they get annoyed with a future customer, I would be conce... | |
| What happened to the Innous discussion Thanks for that @marco1 I was trying to be diplomatic! I use research and other people’s input and, to a limited extent measurements, when I am initially looking for my next purchase. I do get a kick out of people who tell me I’m wrong when they... | |
| What happened to the Innous discussion @guscreek I suppose that’s always a possibility and your decades of experience certainly seems impressive. But it sounded better to me and made me happy when I bought it. | |
| What happened to the Innous discussion The next time you try out different equipment, you might try to keep it a few days. I auditioned an Aurender N200 in my system back when I first started building my dream system. Comparing it my Node 2i, I was not impressed with the N200. So I tr... | |
| Hearing Aids A friend has tinnitus, as I do, and found a hearing aid that helped. So I decided to try the Widex Moment also. During my hearing test, I found that I had “severe” hearing loss above 3,000 hz in my left ear. I’ve only had the aid (I only have o... | |
| Nuisance tripping of AFCI circuit breaker by inrush of current when turning on amplifiers I’m not familiar with your amps or their power requirements, but this was my situation: I have 5 year old Eaton 20 amp CH type AFI breakers and one started tripping after I got my new McIntosh MC611 amplifiers. The dealer took the amps back and t... | |
| Innuos Pulse Incoming I have a slightly different setup (Innuos Pulsar, McIntosh C55) and I’ve been very pleased with the USB connection. I’m using an Audioquest Vodka Ethernet cable. Galen Carol has a couple of used ones on his web site at gcaudio.com. | |
| Innuos OS Update 2.6.3 From the Innuos website: InnuOS - release 2.6.3 Stephen Healy on 29-04-2024 Features - Improved Artist Official Discography display for Qobuz - Now it is possible to create and play playlists with up to 10000 tracks - Now ... | |
| Bluesound Node 2 producing distortion and dropouts My problem with the Node disappearing from the drawer every day or so, which began after the latest update to 3.20.45, seems to have been fixed with the latest 3.20.49 release. For 5 mornings in a row since the update, neither my N130 nor my Powe... | |
| Bluesound Node 2 producing distortion and dropouts I’ve been having a problem with the Node disappearing from the drawer every day or so. It began after the latest update to 3.20.45. BlueSound worked with me and reviewed the logs. After some back and forth, they essentially said they see a prob... |