toro3
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| Best upgrade for SGC servers; LPS vs network switch Optical FMC package from SGC made a pretty significant impact for me and my Roon end point. Wish I had done this years ago had I known. | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? MQA is confusing when it comes to the software and hardware needed to process the unfolds - 1st unfold, 2nd unfold, all-in-one unfold and then we have decoder, renderer, and full decoder. Curious if everyone is/had been using a full decoder to com... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @chocaholic I feel like Roon Radio is pretty close to Spotify’s artist’s radio that you had mentioned; maybe not as good. Roon Radio usually begins after playing a single track that I had selected or after an album ends - can’t remember if I had s... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! I was literally at the seat of my chair reading each and every word…and then I realized this was tongue in cheek - the Axe body spray was a dead giveaway and mildly offensive since I use their product each and every day. | |
| christmas music Apologies in advance that this recommendation isn’t an album while realizing this thread is from 2007, but we’ve been enjoying SomaFM’s Department Store Christmas - kind of like elevator music for Christmas (great background music). | |
| New DAC or New Streamer? Trying to put myself in you shoes: if I had said that I thought my streamer was the bottleneck, and I had purchased a DAC prior to the streamer - I would probably be wondering about how much of a bottleneck my Cambridge is while listening to my ne... | |
| Where does "MidFi" differ from "HiFi" or "LOFI"? High end is synonymous with Hi-Fi, but I’d like to think/hope that high fidelity isn’t compartmentalized just to the high end market. | |
| Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System vs SGC Optical Isolation System Appreciate the discussion. For a while I've felt like the amount of tweaks that could be done to enhance streaming and reduce noise can be overwhelming to grasp - FMCs, ethernet cables, LPS, servers, modems, switches, passive devices (Eno), router... | |
| Hifi Rose RA180 I’d definitely be interested in a review from an Audiogner once they have this beautiful integrated in their possession. IMO the aesthetics for this unit are stunning and the class AD amp design sounds intriguing. | |
| Spotify navigation? Does Lumin allow Spotify Connect on your D1? It seems like Spotify is a lot like Apple with their consumers - they want their consumers to stay within their ecosystem, which limits or denies access to their content from other platforms/businesses.... | |
| Audio people you've had contact with that proved to be good people. Louis Chacos of Omega Speaker Systems. Above and beyond regardless of whether he would or wouldn’t get a sale. | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? Confirmation bias is often cited by cable deniers, yet it's rarely acknowledged in the same post or thread that this interpretation goes both ways in terms of confirming one's previous beliefs - more like "rejection bias" for the cable deniers. | |
| To ROON or not to ROON ? @classdstreamer definitely debatable - yet I agree that out of all the streaming platforms (Tidal, Quboz, Deezer, Amazon), Spotify's music discovery is above and beyond without question. Stopping subscriptions for multiple providers and only hav... | |
| To ROON or not to ROON ? I'm sure some of you had seen the price increases below. I've tried Roon out a few times and currently debating whether I should spring for the lifetime subscription before the 1st of January. Music discovery is extremely high on the priority list... | |
| NAD AUDIO C658 STREAMER I’ve had the C658 for a few years and I still have mixed emotions and results from this component, especially in respect to DIRAC. The positives: 1. DIRAC if you have a difficult room. 2. Dual subwoofer inputs with digital crossover allowing yo... |