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Style Council - Home & Abroad  
Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other
Many top dealers will come to you and set it up, given the price range you're looking at. If you're spending $20K+ the cost of install shouldn't be an obstacle and will get you the sound quality and confidence you're after. Cheers, Spencer  
DENAFRIPS DAC ---- Owner Impressions, Feedback, General Discussion, Questions and more....
Thanks @alvin1118  For those of us with a fear of Terminal, a short youtube video demonstrating might be a good idea. Just a thought...Cheers, Spencer  
Band Member Changes Over Time
Simon and Garfunkel without Garfunkel - Paul did plenty of great stuff on his own 10,000 Maniacs without Natalie - Sad Yes without Jon Anderson, without Wakeman, without Bruford, and at times without Howe. IMHO, Alan White was the only later mem... 
Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment
Tone Poets, Blue Note Classic Series and Acoustic Sounds Series LP reissues. Denafrips Pontus II DAC but I might be cheating if it was Dec'20. Cheers, Spencer  
Anyone Made Any Really Good Copies From Vinyl To CD Or Files Using An A-To-D Converter?
A few friends have liked the Apogee and Alesis A-D units for this. Fremer does this frequently, so somewhere on his site, he’s probably opined on the topic. Cheers, Spencer  
In the beginning
So they can measure it instead of listening to it?   
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This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow  
Roon drops signal
@mpomerantz I've experienced the same occasionally. Is this happening when the music is streamed files vs. local file on a drive/NAS? If the latter case, one thing that helped was in Roon Settings>Library>Skipped Files you can see a list of ... 
Lumin D2 Dac/Streamer Vs 2021 Node/Denafrips Ares ii or Chord Qutest
+1 hardwired ethernet @mrcorky a whole separate conversation, but when you get to consideration of pbuying a transport and a bunch of CDs, you might want to research 2 alternatives: 1) the obvious one, is CD quality available to stream via Qobuz... 
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Moving Panoramas - In Two    
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Renaissance – Scheherazade And Other Stories  
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Flaming Lips - American Head  
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@big_greg love that LP, weird that he never did much else   Fairground Attraction - The First of a Million Kisses  
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Eiji Oue / MN Orch - Copland - Fanfare/3rd Sym (Reference Recordings) Dr. Keith O. Johnson should run for senate in PA!