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| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @soix I believe it depends on the DAC and some designers say their DACs do not need a clock, such as PlayBack Designs. Now this is not a cheap DAC, $6k -$24k. I use the low-cost, Schitt Yggi+ OG and LIM (soon converted to MIB) DACs. I consider th... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @devinplombier Fibre optical cables are made of glass and can be very long; cheap too.Fibre is used to transmit data across large distances reliably, Glass cannot carry analog noise that is in the network, a network is likely ethernet cable base... | |
| KEF Meta speakers vs non meta I only had the LS50 and LS50 Meta. The Meta sounded better. Better clarity for sure. Maybe that was it, I do not remember all the particulars now. I do remember thinking that this was a nice upgrade. My system was very revealing at that time so m... | |
| SimAudio Moon North Collection Simaudio Moon 891 Streaming Preamplifier (soundstageultra.com) | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I use a $150 Ubiquiti switch that has multiple RJ45 and 2 fibre optic input slots for my office system. This system is now essentially a reference level headphone system. Last time I looked my Ubiquiti switch was about $500 on Amazon. I think a lo... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @devinplombier I have commented on my Fibre based approach to streaming for about 8 years on this site. There are a couple of posts on this thread that gets into a bit of detail. One thing to consider about my statements is that some genius leve... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? STREAMING 101. Do not stream directly from your computer into your DAC it is the worst way to stream and you can easily hear the grunge of that setup in the DACs output. I use a $500 DELL PC to stream and it is nowhere close to my audio gear (dif... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I run Ubuntu Linux on a $125 PC I got from Amazon. My music library is on a USB drive I hang off of it. Of course it can stream. Linux is free. The Clementine music player looks a lot like iTunes, but I run JRiver for about $30. I always laugh a... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move Try the Yamaha NS5000 which I have in my Livingroom with a CODA #16 and Schitt Yggi+ OG DAC. I think the drivers on it are unsurpassed by ANY cone driver speaker. The drivers are made of a material called Zylon and it is very similar to Beryllium ... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @illusionista8 Audiogon Discussion Forum | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it I have been a ROON Lifer even before the product was released, so maybe 10 years now. A few things I have learned. 1) If you are updating the software and things are not running as expected, then reboot the ROON Core. This has become less of an... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @illusionista8 When I had 3 streamers in the house, $2k, $3k, and $15k. I tested them out side by side and found they sounded different, which was surprising. However, I would not say 1 streamer was better than the other. | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? @yyzsantabarbara Out of curiosity, what dedicated streamers have you compared to your computer? @soix The streamers that I used ALL used my computer so I cannot answer that. These are the streamers I owned. Lumin X1 PlayBack Designs STREAM-... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? Use your noisy MacBook Pro, no problem. I use a noisy crappy computer too. However, you need a moat in front of your DAC so that the analog noise before the moat does not travel up the USB cable into the DAC. I use the relatively cheap Sonore Opt... | |
| Yamaha RN-2000a Why not get a cheap vintage tuner and have better sound than from a receiver? I have 3 tuners and use them daily. One is the great Magnum Dynalab 108T and the other 2 are vintage units that have either been modded or updated. The vintage tuners a... |