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| Top music streamer for 2019? Aurender N10’s? Assuming you’ve replaced the hard drive with SSD on your Mac Mini why not try running Roon with Tidal and Qobuz before spending more money on another box? It seems like a "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" issue. I'd concentrate on ... | |
| Full Range under $5k-ish By full range do you mean usable LF extension to 20 Hz? | |
| Qobuz. I'm still a free beta Qobuz user, but it integrates so well with Roon and the 96/24 sounds so good I'm sure to be a subscriber. I plan to keep Tidal as well. | |
| Qobuz. Qobuz beta is running as a Roon service along with Tidal on our mac-mini. | |
| Qobuz. nycjlee, when you wrote that when you tried streaming Tidal and Qobuz directly to the Ayre QX-5/20 via ethernet the results were the same did you mean the sound quality was the same or that the preference for Qobuz that you observed in the previou... | |
| KEF Reference 1 vs. Olympica 1 We have a pair of KEF Ref 1s in gloss rosewood, but when they first replaced the racing red LS50s my wife loved she was skeptical. Now my wife agrees they are handsome, and a Decca Blu-ray of the Verdi Requiem convinced me they can do large orche... | |
| Mac Mini as a music server I use a Mac Mini with SSD to send files from Roon via ethernet to an Ayre QX-5 Twenty digital hub. The interface to Roon is an iPad. The sound quality is superb. | |
| Has anyone added a small subwoofer to 2 channel and been thrilled with the result? With KEF Ref 1s I'm using a pair of Velodyne HGS-10s low-passed at 40 Hz with 24 dB/octave slope by a SMS-1 bass manager that also does acoustic room correction. The result is an excellent full-range sound. | |
| Tube amp with KEF Reference 1 I used 20 watt Cary CAD 572 SE monoblocks to drive KEF LS50s that have a sensitivity rating of 85 dB, the same as the Ref 1s. I thought the pairing sounded very good, with a broad and deep soundstage. I hope to try those amps with my Ref 1s as a... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp Roon sends ripped, downloaded, and Tidal files via ethernet to an Ayre QX-5/20 digital hub and I sit with an iPad selecting what I want to hear. The sound is superb, e.g., the DSD download of "Time Out" from Acoustic Sounds seems to sound a bit b... | |
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 I have two Sony XA5400ES players sitting in boxes, because I found the sound with the Ayre C-5xeMP to be superior. But I've never heard a pre minimum-phase (MP) Ayre. Always planned to sell the Sonys, but never got around to it. It's on my to-d... | |
| Bluesound NODE 2 paired with Benchmark DAC 1? 2psyop, I doubt the Ayre Codex unfolds MQA. Neither my QX-5/20 nor DX-5 DSD do. They both show MQA from Roon as 96 kHz, with Roon doing the first unfolding. Charles Hansen was an MQA skeptic.db | |
| Big speakers in small room at moderate volume levels I'm near the Biltmore and have been using KEF Ref 1s driven by Ayre KX-5/20 preamp and VX-5/20 amp in a near field setup. The source is usually Roon files played through an Ayre QX-5/20 digital hub. The KEFs are supplemented by a pair of Velodyn... | |
| KEF KUBE between Ayre preamp and amp? My question was for 3-year future planning. The 107/2s are currently upstairs, the Ayre components downstairs with Ref 1s. I can't decide whether my Ref 1s supplemented by a pair of subs can replace my 107/2s when I need to downsize. The 10" su... | |
| Do Macs Play FLAC? Is there any reason to use FLAC rather than AIFF? I've been installing CDs into iTunes then ripping with dBPoweramp to AIFF. Roon finds the files immediately and displays the cover art. Before I started moving files to iTunes I would sometimes ... |