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| Lumin or Aurender My vote for Lumin. It gives you more options with streaming services. Lumin supports Tidal MQA decoding, Aurender don’t. However, if you live in Russia doesn’t matter...unfortunately Hi Res streaming services does not exist in Russia. | |
| Big source improvement using CD player In your price range I can recommend CAMBRIDGE AUDIO - CXU ($800) Decent player with five separate Wolfson WM8740 DACs on board and upsampling (Adaptive Time Filtering). upsamples all audio up to 24-bit/192kHz. “Pure Audio” mode could be used to di... | |
| Matching fully balanced with unbalanced. Tnx, atmasphere...full and argumentative explanation. I knew the topic isn’t easy... but consensus should be reachable:) ... However, Physics is not Psychic. :) | |
| Matching fully balanced with unbalanced. Of course testing and listening that for sure, but could any body throw scientific base under this topic? | |
| Matching fully balanced with unbalanced. I think all XLR interconnects are true balanced, rather components could be not even if they equipped with XLR connections.... I wasn’t trying to go chipper on my preamp..i just try to understand if it beneficial to go balanced as far as I can in ... | |
| Matching fully balanced with unbalanced. other words, run balanced as far as u can should be beneficial you think? ... yes, unbalanced amp is equipped with XLR inputs. | |
| plz suggest a tube preamp to match Parasound A21 amp If Balanced input of A21 used the impedance is 66 kΩ..... 33kΩ is for RCA input only. | |
| plz suggest a tube preamp to match Parasound A21 amp Freya +/A21 combo sound better than my SS (p6) and I know that I could play with tube rolling to polish the SQ, but that clicking-scraping volume control and pretty long start delay of Freya is Just not for me. | |
| TEAC NT-505 impossible connecting to WiFi router o such LAN: help me please? My own experience with NT-505:I bought the unit directly from Teac six weeks ago, connected with 26 feet 8-cat Ethernet cord to my router. Weeks 1-2: no problem at all. The unit and app was working just perfect, no drop offs, no connection issues,... | |
| Lumin D2 or U1 Mini Get Lumin D2. If you listen to Tidal Hifi, D2 will give you full MQA unfolding.... your Benchmark DAC3 HGC is pretty good DAC, but it won’t unfold Tidal MQA.... U1 is only transport streamer so you will need external MQA DAC with it in case to dec... |