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| Best standalone music server? I fail to see how cds will be eliminated anytime soon, sure they said that about vinyl too....However regardless of that i am just old fashionedWhen I have stumped up $10 or $15 or $20 for an album, well I WANT an album physically not some downloa... | |
| Best standalone music server? So here we are now and a very happy owner of the bluesound vault2 which fills my want list at every step!so easy to use even my wife can handle it, i am controlling it via the bluos app in android and no issues at all, it found my network and home... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Time to chime with my direct a/b comparoBAT VK600SE vs Red Dragon S500Everything else the same, just swapping leads between the bat and the red dragon.Hate to say it but it looks like the 120lb space heater is going to be looking for a new home.I ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? mid fi?high enders?are we not all supposed to be in the same hobby for the love of the music?such labels do not help matters any IMHOGranted there will always be people who will argue black is white just for the sake of it and they exist in every ... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @jimman2Quite amusing as I have not owned a piece of vinyl in over 15 years but my 16 year old daughter loves her vinyl and has paid some (imho) exorbitant prices for some of them, so yes I would agree that Vinyl is hot right now.And now I am eve... | |
| Best standalone music server? will let you know when its here and i have some run time on it! | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @dave_b Just purchased a bluesound vault 2 myself, what do you operate yours with, ipad or android and what software?going to be interesting to compare this running through the red dragon to my esoteric running through the BAT! | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Really interesting stuff hereMy two centsJust replaced two behemoth Emotiva amps ( a 5channel and a 2 channel) in the ht rig with a tiny little Nuforce mca-20.Now the tanks were rated at 5x200w and 2x300w and the Nuforce "just" 8x150w.I am pleasan... | |
| Best standalone music server? Well I went my way after all...lolJust bought a Bluesound VAULT2So we will see, was a very fair price I thought and worth a trialNow what do the few people who have this use as an app on android? | |
| Decided to change my cd player, suggestions please? @itzhak1969 would agree totally based on an earlier pair of 803d I once owned, but different system, different room and what a difference.There just is no substitute for actually in room demos, you can read all the reviews you want, listen to all ... | |
| Best standalone music server? LOL, must be my old piece of junk pcStill 18 minutes to rip in flac....but it did find the metadata....... | |
| Best standalone music server? @sYou could be right Spencer, I will try another cd tonight and seeBut do you think it would be any faster writing to an external drive over usb2? | |
| Best standalone music server? In fact I think I have dbpoweramp on my work laptop just to play music back on those long nights in the hotel while away for work | |
| Best standalone music server? @jond Oh I agree totaly on the flac vs wav pointJust pointing out the fact that on my computer it took twice as long with the EAC software compared to windows media player on same format of wav.I truly think my old pc and drives are more the stumb... | |
| Best standalone music server? So I thought I would at least give exact audio copy a try out on my pc, but after the results I am going to assume it is very dependant on age/speed of pc and drive etc as results were very poor tbh.The very first cd i loaded ( polyester zeal by r... |