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| Need help choosing a new DAC A warm low-ish cost DAC is the Gustard X26 Pro. I owned it for a while and loved it. I also owned the AudioMirror (top model). It was pretty good but I preferred the Gustard for my warm DAC types. I currently own the Benchmark DAC3B. It just doe... | |
| What is the best time of year to sell used gear? January 1st, 2022 Expect price increases for NEW gear. So used gear will look even better. | |
| What is the best time of year to sell used gear? Now. People are buying like crazy. Including me. | |
| Changes in DAC Presentation - Need Advice I was also only using my MacMini for CORE. My issue was not sound quality. It was that ROON would have performance issues on the Mac. It would crash, stop playing, the MacMini would update the OS and then not reboot. I had to restore this machine ... | |
| Changes in DAC Presentation - Need Advice My MacMini (and all MACs I have had) are awful. I had to buy a cheapo DELL to move my ROON CORE off the Mini. Just too many problems. I do not know how people put up with all the issues I see on Macs. Recently ROON had some hiccups for me. I did... | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? @ticat Originally from Toronto and went to MAC for University. I was hoping the Ticats won the Grey Cup this year. I am near Los Angeles now. | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? I am not sure about the implementation details of ROON Core but if I were to write the streaming engine for it, I would not be writing anything to disk. I would be writing to super-fast RAM for TIDAL or Qobuz and for streaming from disk-based FLAC... | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? @ticat if you liked CFNY from the early days check out KCRW from Santa Monica. "The Spirit of Radio" is a song released in 1980 by the Canadian rock band Rush from their album Permanent Waves. The song's name was inspired by Toronto radio stati... | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? My issue was related to the extra bandwidth requirements of hi-res. I had no issue in the past with non-highres. However, now I have solved the issue for highres. | |
| Suggestion between benchmark Ahb2, Bob carver crimson 275 and rogue atlas magnum 2 amos @pwoodard922 I have 3 preamps - Topping pre90 ($600) - Benchmark LA4 ($2500) - CODA 07x (much more $$) My KEF LS50 sounds incredible with the Topping pre90 and Benchmark AHB2's. I have AHB2 monos but will be splitting that up because the LS50s... | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? I used to have my ROON Core behind a Powerline network. I also had my living room system’s DAC streamed via this same PowerLine. I even have this PowerLine in my garage with a bunch of heavy-duty computer servers. When the new George Harrision re... | |
| A review of Dynaudio C2 vs KEF Blade 2 as for the AHB2, based on the sensitivity of Blade 2 and measurement of the amp, I’m surprised to learn using them as mono will yield significant improvements, is there any other experience people have for highly efficient mono amp sonic performa... | |
| Preview: CODA Technologies new generation number#8 Stereo Amplifier I have the #8 V1 and you really cannot burn your speakers unless you play at maximum volume for a long period. You could burn your speaker by using an under powered amp, which the #8 is not with your speakers. I would recommend V1 which has th... | |
| Looking for a Quality Desktop Solution The passive LS50 (what I have) is a little too big to be on a desktop. The new active one with DSP (and desktop setting I think) would be better, but then you do not need the Hegel 390. The isoacustics stand are really a must for desktop speakers... | |
| Looking for a Quality Desktop Solution Get a KEF LS50 and put the speaker behind you like I do. Putting speakers on a desktop is not very satisfying. I know I did that as my main system for 5 years. You actually have tons more choices if you exclude the desktop. If you do use the des... |