traubr
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| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be @drmuso My room is somewhat L shaped with speakers in the wider part, 3 windows and 2 doors, listening position on the back wall off center, furniture behind each speaker so there isn't much "breathing room" or to optimize bass response. Other ... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be @rick_n Others have also said a better/ external preamp will reap benefits. Curious if this means the addition of this single device (preamp) will make the difference, or is that merely the first step, where I also replace the Node and DAC as w... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be @8th-note As a fellow geezer, and listening to the sage advice and experience offered here, your words ring true. WOW is, as you say, elusive. As a babe in these digital woods, I find it shocking how many streamers and DACs people have gone thro... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be My, my, what have I wrought? I greatly appreciate the comments thus far, it is both illuminating and daunting to consider the options. I took a break from this thread and went through some similar ones last night out here in Audiogon-land, and t... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be Dougsat, there is, in fact, another room, although the layout is far from ideal. It has my original AVR in there with a good set of speakers, running "background" music through Heos. I also have a modest amplifier not currently in use that coul... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be 12many, in the quest for WOW, a separate preamp is fraught with issues, not least of which is where to put it. My equipment "rack" runneth over now, and the sucker just wouldn't fit. Considering space, a separate two channel audio path and a sou... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be YYZ, I looked long and hard at Small Green's products and adopted his fiber philosophy. From my router, I have an FMC with (more or less) the high grade Finisar Small Green sells in his package, a run of fiber cable to another FMC with Finisar an... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be Btw, the SQ differences between Parasound and Emo always seemed to be masked by another change, e.g., cable of some sort, so it was hard to judge. Plus, that darned expectation bias, where I expected the sound to improve when the change was made... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be Expectation bias has seemed to run my life, and not necessarily for the better! Thank you, Mr J-Bourne. Nek, to your point, something I have been meaning to do is swap the cables around between the Parasound and Emo as an A/B to see if I detect ... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be Your point also about better sound being an upgrade away is important. It requires listening and learning, in your own environment, before the Aha! moment that "this" is what I wanted all along. | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be GHDP, thanks for responding, I have appreciated your input in the various threads out here. I like your one box notion, particularly as I pray for UPS or FedEx deliveries in the dark of night or when the wife is working, to sneak the next purchas... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be A corollary is my home theatre. After a great deal of research, time and $$$, it sounds good but it is not WOW. I have come to accept the reality of my home theatre in my space, with all its limitations, my equipment choices and budget. Perhaps... | |
| New Streamer, DAC or Let it Be Your question cuts to the chase. One of the sad facts of life these days is the lack of places (shops) to hear different equipment for a hands (or ears) on experience. Overall, music sounds pretty darned good on my system, but I suspect (here is... | |
| Ethernet Switch Recommendations Please I have an LHY SW8 switch to provide multiple access points for my home theatre/ stereo set up (admittedly, more home theatre than stereo). I also bought their power upgrade and LPS power supply for my Bluesound Node, which made a major difference ... |