tinear123

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How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers?
Here's the deal... no speaker is perfect each type has strengths and weaknesses (conventual sealed box & vented, electrostatic, ribbon, horn, and a few others).  There are so many types due to people's preferences between speed, dynamics, imag... 
Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition
Don Sachs Pre-2 wow, replaced my AR-5SE with Don's and pocked $4k.  
Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment
Holo May KTE DAC a huge upgrade from my PS Audio.  
Innuos - New Player App
The new Innuos V-2.08 is now online and is a huge step up.  
What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please.
At $3k and below it's really hard to beat the Innuos Zen-Mini+LPSU. It sounds wonderful and has both digital and analog outputs and rips/stores aswell.  A really good place to start then add on an external dac.   
Wilson not delivering speakers as scheduled
Welcome to communism, get used to it. 
What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey?
WLS.... wow haven't thought about that in eons!  I grew up in the mountains of North West Arkansas in a small town and would cruise every Friday & Saturday night in high school.  On clear nights we could get WLS out of Chicago and part on the ... 
Recommended streamers/servers?
This will come down to Innuos and Auralic at that price point... always does.  I went Innuos and am very happy.  Easy solution, built like a truck, fantastic software, sounds fantastic and does not glitch.  
Innuos Zen Mini Mk3 w/PSU |VS| Lumin U1 Mini
Full Tidal integration is not complete as yet on V2.0.5 of Innuos (IE: Tidal play lists shown in the same view concurrently with your ripped CD's.  I use Tidal exclusively on mine and like the interface quite a lot and of course it sounds much bet... 
Innuos Zen Mini Mk3 w/PSU |VS| Lumin U1 Mini
I can attest to the Innuos Sense 2.0.5 sounding very good, certainly better than roon (on my system).  Not full Tidal integration yet but works just fine for me and enough difference in sound that I have abandoned roon.   
Innuos Zen Mini Mk3 w/PSU |VS| Lumin U1 Mini
I ended up getting the Zen-Mini-Mk3 w/LPSU and love it.  Auditioned against the Zenith and liked the modular mini+lpsu better. 
Advice on a streamer
Go Innuos Zen-Mini then down the road add the LPS and it's a fantastic sounding combo.  Haer to beat at this price point AND the new Innuos software is very good and handles ripping, streaming, and supports multiple streaming survices well integra... 
Has anyone used the new Innuos 2.0 Sense music app? Compared it to Roon?
Just updated my Zen-Mini-Mk3 (with LPS) today to 2.0.5 and wow!  On my system it absolutely kills roon from a sound perspective.  As others have stated, ultra low noise floor, vastly improved base and more delicate top end.  From an interface stan... 
Why the cost increase?
Elections have ramifications. 
Has anyone used the new Innuos 2.0 Sense music app? Compared it to Roon?
Just saw the weekly update for Jul-23 and the ZenMini support will be held off for 2.0.5 on Aug-03.  I can easily wait a couple more weeks before giving roon the boot.