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| Streamer creates a Wow experience What DAC(s) are you feeding the iFi, and do you feel it is now close or even better to your CD playback? @blisshifi I’m feeding the Zen Stream into a Musician Pegasus, and its not even close — the streaming is now far superior to CD. Didn’t se... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? Are there a substantial number of well recorded performances recorded on CD which can’t be found via streaming services, or where the streaming version is sonically inferior to the CD? No, but the ones that I have — probably around 20 CDs or so... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? My streaming now sounds better than playing CDs. The only reason I keep my transport around is to play stuff that isn’t available to stream. | |
| Preamp/DAC Suggestions Looking for something that will give me a really quiet background and more soundstage. I owned a Bryston BP6 and it offers these qualities in spades and could save you $$$. I wrote a review on Soundstage and bought the review sample if you want... | |
| Basic question about power/watts Yeah, I think it’s likely your amp isn’t up to the task. As far as Watts, it’s about headroom and allowing the amp to work in its comfort zone. Many amps will not be at their best when being pushed to deliver near their max output level, and it’... | |
| Purifi v Gan amps? It’s pretty clear both technologies offer some high performance potential. To me, I wouldn’t worry so much about the technology and just focus on whatever amp offers the sound characteristics you’re looking for. | |
| Joseph Audio Pulsar2 vs dynaudio confidence 20 vs tad-me1 I worked for Magnolia and got to spend a lot of time with the 805 D3, and I’m also very familiar with the Pulsar. The 805 is a nice, clean-sounding speaker, but to me the Pulsar does just about everything better and just plays at a higher level o... | |
| 12 inch subwoofer overkill for desktop setup? Depends how big the desk is. | |
| inexpensive streaming setup I just got my iFi Zen Stream with upgraded power supply working and wow. Just, wow. | |
| Beginner home theater setup questions... Congrats on paying off the loans! And I think it’s awesome you’ve decided to reward yourself with a nice HT system — what a great gift that will keep on giving so much enjoyment to you and your family. So, yeah, I have some very specific recommen... | |
| inexpensive streaming setup Interested. | |
| musician aquarius r2r dac any good? I am very nervous though. This is the first time I use r2r dac. I always use delta sigma DAC in my system, so I dont know what change I will introduce to my overall synergy. I wouldn’t worry. I think you’re in for a real treat. | |
| Preamp/DAC Suggestions I'm not really sure I want to use tubes going forward in my main system. My kids and wife use the system for tv and often leave it on, which seems to burn through the tubes. Well, that would’ve been nice information to have upfront. Thanks. | |
| musician aquarius r2r dac any good? @anzaanimalclinic Ah crap — thank you for the correction. My bad. Prices now look like $6405 and $1772, respectively. Still, it’s more than double the price of the Aquarius so the principle holds. A much more apt comparison would be with the V... | |
| Time to upgrade the pre-amp. With ARC, i must admit that I appreciate the polished presentation, the copious documentation and the ready resale market. Yeah, but does it offer the sound qualities you’re looking for? You already have an ARC pre and yet are searching for a ... |