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| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @soix So what youʻre telling me is that you can transfer terabytes of data halfway around the planet, transversing dozens of routers, going from fibre to copper to fibre and wireless with 100% accuracy routinely, but you cannot reliably transfer ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @ddafoe What we hear is analog. We never hear a digital signal. Only analog. So when we are hearing differences, itʻs always in the conversion of digital to analog, or something farther down the audio chain. Whether Iʻm streaming from a computer ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @soix Bits is bits. Thatʻs the beauty of digital audio. At the very lowest level of computing, all machines do is: copy data from one register to another compare data between two different registers add data from one register to another and... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT All of your various streamers are just generic PC boards running a custom front end app on top of Linux. Theyʻre just computers dedicated to running that one app. But go ahead and drop $5k on something youʻll be trying to unload for $1800 in ... | |
| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? I donʻt know about endgame. Thereʻs always another audio wonder out next year thatʻs supposed to put all the others to shame. With your budget, Iʻd sell off my electronics stack, buy a pair of the Dutch & Dutch 8c, get your room analyzed... | |
| Streamers and software Most here hate my take on this. All of these streamers are just dedicated computers, mostly running Linux with the vendorʻs user interface on top of it. Bits is bits. They love to tout this $5000 wonder versus that $3500 wonder. And of co... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? There was once a journalist who interviewed Count Basie. Like many writers, he wanted to get deep into the emotions and such, considering Basie to be this Great Artist. When he asked Basie for the meaning of his music, Basie replied in just thre... | |
| Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp For $3k, you could build a set of SEAS Thor loudspeakers. Get the kit from Madisound. Theyʻre roughly equivalent to the Joseph Audio Perspective ($14k). Designed by Joe DʻAppolito. | |
| Music server recommendations needed. @mclinnguy I was unfamiliar with Grimm. Easy to find on Google. They are twice the price of the D &D 8c and 50% more than a fully built and delivered Linkwitz LX521 system. If youʻre going to search out the Grimm, you owe it to yourself... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. @mclinnguy You must be looking at a very old photo of my rig. The Linn left me years ago. Now running a Rega P5. Iʻm soon to sell off the record collection and table. Trying to simplify my life. I do hear differences between vinyl and digital... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. @mgrif104 Expectations create reality. If you expect some thing to make a certain kind of change, then thatʻs what youʻre looking for and will likely get. Computers process and transfer data. Bits is bits. The sound all depends on your DAC. ... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. You realize of course, that all these megabuck streamers are just Linux machines with a dedicated interface. I paid $130 for an 8 gb memory tiny PC from Amazon, with a 128 GB flash drive. I installed Ubuntu Linux on it and hung an external drive... | |
| New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid Good speakers are Gawd-awful expensive. Because you are bi-amping already, I recommend that instead of taking out a 2nd mortgage to buy new speakers and having to figure out who you can dump your old ones on, get yourself a miniDSP DDRC24 active ... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I run Ubuntu Linux on a $125 PC I got from Amazon. My music library is on a USB drive I hang off of it. Of course it can stream. Linux is free. The Clementine music player looks a lot like iTunes, but I run JRiver for about $30. I always laug... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move I have a couple of suggestions in your price range. The first is the Linkwitz LX521 system, which you can readily afford as a DIY system. You can buy it fully pre-built and delivered to your doorstep, with amplification, for about $21k or so, bu... |