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| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup @jond Have you compared wifi to ethernet using the Aries Mini? With many devices, wifi degrades the sound quality. If wiring is inconvenient, some have reported good results using adapters that pass the signal over your home's copper electrical wi... | |
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| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup @jond Yes, I have the microRendu USB output connected directly to the USB input on the back of my Schiit Gungnir Multibit, with the hard adapter that is included with purchase. You can see pic on my system page. It's smaller than a deck of cards. ... | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup @ryriken66 To switch to A+ without iTunes, you don't need to download anything else. There is a mention option to toggle. The mode using iTunes is called INTEGRATED. You just need to toggle that off. If you don't like their database, you can just... | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup Wow look away for a day and now I feel obligated to reply to many posts in this thread! First, thanks to @rbstehno for a couple of well informed great posts. Let me say that from my firsthand experience is based on using MacMini, Audirvana+, (as ... | |
| Help me choosing an Integrated Amp For 85db speaker, 30w is not a good choice. From your list, I like Pass in general, but you will need a bigger one. Another brand that meets your description and is great sounding is ASR. Since you know the speaker designer, ask what he has heard ... | |
| "Vintage" high end gear vs new and upgrade path? Here's the perspective of a guy running 1988 Sound Labs and late 90s era Lamm amps: Digital servers/streamers and DACs have improved greatly and the computeraudiophile.com community is a much more informed place to get up to speed than here. Yes,... | |
| FLAC On A Mac Since Apple has legal interest in AIFF and some companies don't pay any fees to Apple they get uncomfortable mentioning AIFF compatibility. Ran into that with a few portable digital players too. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Why the lack of Virtual System postings? @halcro Yes, I understood that but the "3 clicks away" is all it took to reduce Systems activity. Funny, that. Also, I agree with your comments about posting images. Direct 1-step insertion of images (uploaded or online) into posts would be a huge... | |
| Volume Controls - Can they affect Dynamic Range? Most volume control work by attenuating (reducing) the volume from a full signal. So best sound usually comes from leaving the crappier volume controls unattentuated aka full volume up, and using the best volume control (almost always an active --... | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup Agree that microRendu is incredible and only $650 + choice of power supple; it can stream Tidal, but you will want a NAS to store your own library. You won't need the mac at all unless you choose to use it for running HQ Player or similar to do DS... | |
| Why the lack of Virtual System postings? The issue isn't the pictures! It's that the old discussion format had a link to "System" next to every posters name on every post. When you read a post often the perspective of the poster is best learned by reading about his system. It used to be ... | |
| List of musicians changed career with better success... @czarivey Really? He never got radio airplay, not even on college radio. Hell, most people never even heard of the band Japan. When Sylvian played live, he rarely could get any venue >500 seats. Most record stores wouldn't even give him his own... | |
| Need some recs/help/thoughts on speakers for a 2nd system Maggie 1.7 would be great, you can get them off the wall and have plenty of room. Golden Ear Triton 2 & 3, should be on your list.IMHO, eliminate the bookshelf speakers on your list, as your room is too big for them. Cheers,Spencer | |
| P2P renting of hi-fi and hi-end audio - what do you think? Not far from what The Cable Company has been doing for decades. Cheers,Spencer |