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| Dac Technology Mature? melbguyone - where are you coming from? You are so wrong about ps audio. How many dacs do you know of use FPGA? How many dacs do you know can add MQA thru software and at no cost? Their DS dac has the bridge which is outstanding technology where v... | |
| Amarra Player vs Tidal Streaming iTunes is your weak link. Years ago, I switched from Audirvana using iTunes to having it read the tracks. The next weak link is using usb. No matter what tricks you do to usb, it’s atill flawed. The next weak link is having a computer in your audi... | |
| A way to listen to a large collection For vinyl, I tend to pick arbitrarily within an artist I want to listen to. For digital, I have a few thousand ripped cd’s/purchased dsd/hires and tidal with MQA. With Roon, I pick an artist and shuffle thru all the albums/songs. Roon allows you t... | |
| Speakers for aging audiophiles - What's with today bass emphasis ? Placement is critical. Also, is your room treated? You should look at the room 1st, treat for its problem areas. Initially corner bass traps nd 1st reflection points. Speaker placement would be next. If you have rear firing ports then distance bet... | |
| Speaker spike feet? Check out some of Jim Smith’s threads, book, or even dvd for help in this issue. | |
| insurance and shipping with UPS I never and will never use ups for shipping audio gear. I was told that they have a 5’ drop from 1 conveyer to another. Not sure if that’s true. I have had luck with fedex and use them for everything. For large or heavy pieces of gear, I usually s... | |
| The big DAC decision If you compare dacs, the ps audio DS dacs are far superior than most of the typical dacs for a number of reasons, IMO of course.i think a dac that uses FPGA technology is the future and both PSA DS dacs use FPGA.A dac that uses a network bridge is... | |
| Need power amp recommendations for system I would go with either the PSA stereo or psa monoblocks. Since the speakers have a built in subwoofer amp, you might not need the headroom that the monoblocks provide. PSA offers a trial period refund policy at some dealers, the dealer I bought my... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Shuffling David Benoit from my ripped music as well as from tidal, 34 albums worth of music. Using roon, this is a seemless process | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Prof-you are wrong in your analogy with cameras. Today’s cameras are so much better than just a couple of years ago. My iPhone camera is probably better than the 1 ansel Adams used. I had a Nikon d1 which was a $5000 camera 20 years ago and it had... | |
| YOUTUBE and Vinyl are gonna bankrupt me! I like jazz and rock and very few artist new stuff comes out on vinyl. The older stuff you can find on vinyl but I prefer newer stuff. Also with hires/mqa I don’t see a need for vinyl for those albums.if you think YouTube is good, you should check... | |
| want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts? streamers are old technology! uberwaltz-tidal or other sites, you MIGHT be correct that vinyl MIGHT sound better, which is also true if you are using a cd player. But to say that hires/dsd and now MQA is worse than vinyl is just a silly remark. I ... | |
| want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts? Correct. I would have to say that the iPad software for the Auralic Aries streamer is almost as good as roon, better than the other streamers software that I looked at and the Auralic sounded better than the other streamers I looked at. I still ha... | |
| want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts? bondmanp-I took my Mac mini running audirvana or pure music and turned it into a true server running OSX server. I have 26TB of raid data to hold all my ripped music or purchased hires files. This server is located in the basement a 100ft away fro... | |
| want to ditch my Brooklyn to streamer..thoughts? Why complicate things? Why do you need a separate streamer? Why use a USB connection? Why use a computer in your audio room or even a streamer with attached disks? Been there done that for over 10 years. There is a better way and that’s using brid... |