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| Do I need a streamer? @ghdprentice I've not personally done comparisons to top line off the shelf streamers, but the group of people who built my streamer and other very similar builds did hear and compare my exact build which at the time of comparison used HDPlex 20... | |
| Do I need a streamer? Something that always seems to get lost in streamer discussions is the idea that all streamers are computers. The dedicated streamers use computer motherboards, in some cases the exact motherboards you may find in a standard computer. SOTM makes t... | |
| Do I need a streamer? I agree, don't write off the computer, but you need to do some research, learn how to optimize. You can pair down processes run by operating systems and power with lps, creates much lower noise floor. Computers can compete with or surpass off the ... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. I have to say those were the days, I grew up in Ann Arbor MI, counterculture, New Left, intellectuals. 1967, Summer of Love, I saw it first hand as young adolescent, certainly spoke to me. Observed a novel non-conformist way to live, has greatly i... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I had Jensen cap failures in Cary amps I ran some years ago, well known issue with those caps, Don't know if it was bad batch or inferior design or build quality. I recently replaced four coupling caps in my 300B monoblocks with the Duelund CA... | |
| Do I need a streamer? There are means to get nice sound out of computers such as mac mini but requires much diy effort. I used three different iteration of mini's over the years, last one provided very nice sound quality, no complaints, could have lived with that one f... | |
| Boutique caps in oil... reliable? Only issue I've had with oil caps over many years was Jensen copper foil in Cary amp, well known issue with those caps. Duelund CAST is now my preference by large margin vs others. | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp I've used most of the caps mentioned here and have found the Duelund Cast, in my case tinned copper version relegates every other cap to a distant second place, really special cap, future plans for going into my speaker crossovers as well. I also... | |
| The character of analog and digital With recent upgrades in streaming setup...still in evaluation phase, I'm finding both more and less uniformity in digital recordings. More in the sense I don't hear major differences between 16/44 and various degrees of up and over sampling. Less ... | |
| JCAT PC Cards I'm in process of discovery via new streamer. Using network xe card at present, next will be usb xe. Will be comparing vs motherboard ports as I go along. Have no doubt JCAT cards will be far superior, advantages of better power supplies and filte... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... Many if not most off the shelf streamers cannot run HQPlayer dsp, not enough processing power. Probably my single greatest issue with off the shelf is this lacking. Most have chosen low power processors, their means to achieving low noise platform... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... @milpai I'd suggest doing trial with Euphony Version 4 OS for Windows platform. Run Stylus music player and compare with present setup. | |
| Optical Isolation @navyachts The Allo would take the place of OpticalRendu, performs same function. Allo uses coax out to dac, OR goes with usb to dac. Optical isolation may or may not be best solution for every situation so don't assume you need OR for quality str... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... It is possible to modify pc and get pretty nice sound, with some research and a modicum of skills possible to get there. Greatest problems with Windows platforms, Windows OS and power supplies. Even the Windows optimizing OS software doesn't turn ... | |
| Zavfino Just ordered the Gold Rush, couldn't resist with present promotion. |