realremo
Responses from realremo
| Best $1,500-ish New or Used Floorstander - all suggestions are at used prices:Focal Chorus 836vDynaudio Audience 82 or 72SEVon Schweikert VR2 | |
| audiophilleo 2 I haven't upgraded my USB/SPDIF converter yet, I have a Vlink right now, but from what I have read in the reviews, the A2 would be an upgrade from the hiface. I have the Audiophilleo or the Anedio in my upgrade list. | |
| Battle of affordable pre-amps: Rotel vs Parasound What pre would you recommend, Dhl, if neither the Rotel nor the Parasound works for you? | |
| Stereo preamp upgrade One of the reasons I went with the Parasound is because of the remote. A remote is an absolute must for me in a pre-amp, as my listening sessions occur for hours on end while working behind a desk at home. This severely limited my options when hun... | |
| Stereo preamp upgrade The Parasound Halo P3 sells regularly on this site for around $500, it should present a different sonic character than the Rotel. I have not heard your pre-amp, but I use the Halo with an RB-1080 to push MA BX5s, and I'm fairly happy. Your studio ... | |
| DAC = thin sound Richardfinegold, what other equipment are you mating your DL3s with? I am having some brightness issues in my room, I run a DL3 as well. Currently using a vlink with it, pushing lossless files through iTunes and Jplay. | |
| DAC = thin sound audiophilleo, stello, anedio and maybe the offramp are all options for better USB-SPDIF converters, depending upon budget. I am still saving, don't know if I will get new speakers or keep dumping $$$ into the front end. At this point my front end ... | |
| Wireless router "contamination" of sound? I don't think the wireless network gear has as much an effect on sound quality as the source/transport and DAC components do. Let's say you were using an Apple TV for a source. Feeding your DAC via toslink from your Macbook vs. networking the Appl... | |
| DAC = thin sound IMHO, the USB implementation on the DL III is not great. I had to buy a Vlink to get close to my Denon transport in sound quality when using my laptop as a transport. With the proper PC software I was able to best the Denon-DL III sound quality. A... | |
| Macbook Air V-Link Peachtree Nova FLAC, AIFF, WAV, and ALAC are all lossless formats, you should stick with these. Differences between them are entirely system dependent, if they exist at all. I have read that Amarra and Pure Music are both good software add-ons for Macs. You have... | |
| i Tunes help You can also shift-select several tracks and edit their info all at once. Sometimes if there is a "featured" artist on a track, that will not come up with the rest of the album, and you need to edit the artist field under 'info' to be the same as ... | |
| Should I add a stereo preamp? I had a similar experience, was driving my fronts with a Denon AVR, also used a sub. 2 channel was barely as good as my 15 year old Yamaha receiver, and the Denon is a $900 AVR, discounted. My first head unit was a 10 year old Yamaha CD changer, t... | |
| Here comes the solar maximum. "Carrington Event" just triggered a non-audio-related Google search, inspired by this site. Never thought Audiogon would expand my knowledge astronomically. | |
| Audiogon's most knowledgeable PC Audio gurus? Almarg is also very knowledgeable. | |
| Processor DACs I chose a long time ago to build a separate system for 2-channel. I have a Denon AVR and B&W 6 series speakers in the home theater system, and although I really need a 5-channel amp to finish it out, I'm not spending any more money on it until... |