avlee
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| Just switched from McIntosh C2500/2600 to ARC Ref 6, initial thoughts If anyone has a C1100 in the DC area, and wants to do an A-B comparison, let me know. I'll make my setup available. | |
| NAD M50.2 Power cycle worked. Also, select network standby in the settings on the front panel of the system. | |
| NAD M50.2 It's been a while, so I figured I'd update this thread:1) The NAD M50.2 has gone through some software upgrades. Along the way it picked up DSD decoding ability!The funny thing is, it doesn't work with the iOS app (on iPhone or ipad), and I assum... | |
| Trying to Decide on my next Purchase As an M50.2 owner since January, I cannot recommend this product to any serious music listener. The excellent hardware features are more than negated by truly horrible software support. 1) since the 2017 fall creator’s update, Windows 10 users hav... | |
| CD/SACD player output options It looks like there are many CD players with XLR output, but I just want to make sure that I'm correct when I say that SACD output (DSD) does not work over the AES/EBU link. If you're listening to an SACD over XLR, you must be listening to the re... | |
| CD/SACD player output options Forgive me, but then the digital output is only for your redbook CD, right? You can’t transmit the DSD data on an SACD via AES/EBU. The Mcintosh units, for instance, specifically state that you need to use the MCT DIN for the DSD data. If you ar... | |
| NAD M50.2 It is, but It still doesn’t seem to support DSD. It also didn’t update the samba protocol to smb2, so the file shares still aren’t showing up on my network. I’m not entirely sure what it did, but if you believe the readme.txt file, it “improves HD... | |
| High End Ethernet Cables ....Real Deal or Snake Oil It depends what people like to wear.Fancy network cables are similar or just about same as fancy shoes, jeans, dress, jewelry.Sir, thank you for a good chuckle. | |
| NAD M50.2 To clarify, I mean I just can’t access my music via explorer any more. I can access my stored music fine through the BluOS app on my phone or the BluOS connect application in Windows. I just can't access the .FLAC files directly.Samba1 can be re... | |
| NAD M50.2 Funny story, I just went to my network shares and tried to access the music. Can't.Windows 10 does not accept files shared via the samba protocol, you must use samba2. So, file shares no longer work. I can't check your error (or access my music a... | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? Had a chat with Mr. Tutay, learned a lot. Bottom line, there’s no way to drive headphones off a preamp. As almarg noted, it’s just not the right instrument.I guess I’ll have to get a headphone amp. | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? Thank you very much for the info. Yeah, the minimum impedance on the old radio/headphones transformers was 600-20k, which is massive...and as you noted, the output voltage might be too weak. I’ll contact Mr. Tutay. Much appreciated! | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? Huh. Found something interesting...it’s a high impedance to low impedance transformer but designed for older radios to output to headphones. If nothing exists, I might be able to adapt it pretty easily to make a homemade rig. | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? Thank you. I missed the k on the output impedance!So that’s what been confusing me...my sennheisers are supposedly relatively high impedance at a whole 300ohms, but that’s not much compared to what the ref 6 is rated for. I like the idea of the b... | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? Using whatever output isn’t the issue. It’s the voltage, as far as I’m concerned. I also dont have amplifiers in the traditional sense. My preamp is hooked up to my speakers directly because my speakers have built in amps (like monitor speakers). ... |