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| HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SYSTEM IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS Yes. Knopfler’s Ragpicker’s Dream is so well recorded — achingly real. Other go to songs are Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Come On Come On and KD Land singing Helpless on Songs of the 49th Parallel. | |
| What is your "holy grail song" that you cannot find? “Nonesuch” a little instrumental featuring a bagpipe practice chanter. I had the vinyl back in the 60s but it took me decades to remember the name of the song (I had it confused with the name of the group) and lo and behold Qobuz had it. Golden Ri... | |
| What’s your opinion about Dali speakers? I’ve had Dali Mentor 6s since around 2012 and I’ve never felt the need to upgrade them on my mid-fi system, even as I have changed amps, sources, cabling, rooms, etc. they seem to handle everything I throw at them well. Excellent bass, smooth treb... | |
| Power Cables <$500 for Digital Sources I’ve used Acoustic Zen, Nordost, and Morrow power cables on my components. All three improved the sound noticeably on my Cambridge Audio 851n streamer/DAC and my Oppo 83 which I use for SACD. A more subtle improvement on my Bel Canto PRE5 preamp, ... | |
| Shocked. Need Opinions. How muck power do I need? Many thanks. Good point about a quick listen vs living with it for a while and at low levels. | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. A post from 2018: Weather report: A Remark you Made (heavy weather) and I am transported back to a moonlit night sometime around 1984 driving a 1976 Monte Carlo with Heavy Weather in the 8-track, accelerating up the on ramp from 422 in Girard Ohi... | |
| Morrow Audio Speaker Cables I’m a big fan. I am very happy with my SP-5s and I had an MA 5 streamer to preamp and a MA 4 preamp to amp. Both XLR. During a recent sale I upgraded the MA 4 to a 5, really just to feel the system was balanced. Heard a slight improvement, but t... | |
| Anybody have Experience with Alta Audio Alyssa Speaker I listened to Alyssa speakers at Axpona. I was really impressed. Obviously it was in a hotel room but I sat front and center and the sound was solid. Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson singing By the Rivers Dark: sublime. When I upgrade my sp... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? Having experiencing Axpona yesterday I can tell you what really, really struck me as remarkable: Alta Audio Alyssa ($5K)—a stand mount speaker, which is what I’m looking for. These are in my list! The Alec is a tower type in the $8K range. These... | |
| Flexible Power Cords Morrow Cables. Very very supple. I want from AQ to Acoustic Zen to Nordost to Morrow. Happy with the Morrow sound. And I’m using mid level MAP3s. With my morrow ICs and speaker cables, I’ve notice a positive benefit each time I climbed the ladder. | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? Well, as a final follow up here, I believe the thing is just kaput. Probably a power supply failing, or possibly the streamer. I sent a query in to Cambridge and I have to say I was impressed— they asked several follow up questions before conclu... | |
| Power cable recommendations for wyred 4 sound Sti-Intergrated amp I’ve tried various power cables over the years (acoustic zen, Nordost, and morrow). They each made a clear improvement in my source components (cd player and streamer/DAC and preamp) but made little or no discernible difference in my class D amps ... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? So here is the update. After cleaning out Qobuz cache and rebooting the Cambridge as described above, I believe the stutter starting has gone away. I say I believe because I thought it might have happened once or twice when I wasn’t paying strict ... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? But the cache was already empty… maybe it needed cleared out anyway then I rebooted before anything was streamed. Maybe a clean handshake kind of deal? | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? Yes. That is what I did, but the catch was aredynety because I had previously disabled the storage. I’ve started maybe fifty songs so far with no stutter starts. Fingers crossed. |