mikhaelkuz
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| Importing Files On Music Server - Totally Confused Totally agree with amg56 re: NAS. it is an ideal and very safe storage for your rips, as well HD downloads, vinyl rips and other files (pictures, video).Roon is a popular and very good, albeit a little expensive option. JRiver can be a cheaper opt... | |
| The best music in 2018 Dukes of the Orient - another offshot of ex-Asia John Payne, kind of continuation of GPS project. Both music and recording quality (surprising for this type of music nowadays) is absolutely outstanding, and IMHO much better effort then GPS " Windo... | |
| Need passive aggressive advice BTW, I asked Schiit if they have plans to introduce HT bypass in a future.This is an answer " All of our preamps offer true home theater bypass. Just plug in your processor's front channels to any input, select Passive mode, and turn the volume a... | |
| Need passive aggressive advice Sorry, HT bypass )) One hand in a sling and typing is difficult )) | |
| Need passive aggressive advice That's a very interesting discussion for me, as I now also in this ""passive" dilemma, which made worse by necessety of HT bypass. I am not an Electrical Engineer, but conversation with some passive Pre makers reveals that they may have difficulti... | |
| One of the best HDMI cable? I have another observation - most UHD players and even OPPO 105 have separate outputs for HDMI video 4K and audio. In theory it is done to support older receivers/processors, which do not have 4K pass-through. In practice it has a lot of other app... | |
| One of the best HDMI cable? CATV isolators almost a must - cable and dish companies often use separate grounding (as well as roof OTA antenna) for safety reasons, and as result unavoidable ground loops and hum of various degree. So I would install it no matter what. The only... | |
| Does a streamer do anything to the data that Tidal provides? @jaaptina -agree with you totally, and was in the same "streaming is streaming" boat, and was also very surprised on a difference quality streamer makes.I read a lot of explanation why - and found most of them unsatisfactory, but fact remains. IMH... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? Straightwire Crescendos cost thousand of dollars. If they are "budget" then what is not ))). | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 @gammajo CD5s is even better then CD5, from what I heard )), | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Exogal DAC chip is PCM4104, which is delta-sigma. But regardless of it they have proprietary DSP prior to it, and it is a very, very good DAC, expecially at used prices.I briefly had it - and it was better then OPPO-105, but lost greatly to AYON C... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? +1 to Canare 4S11. Replaced Nordost "flat" speaker cable and I think they are better (at least not worse).All my power cables replace with Signal Cable - not sure I can hear the difference, but they are well made and not pricey. For long runs to m... | |
| Does a streamer do anything to the data that Tidal provides? +1 on Aries. I purchased Auralic Aries Femto to streamline and simplify my music listening - but some of my gear already had streaming capabilities. I was never satisfied with minim server on my NAS and used JRiver. To my surprise Aries also great... | |
| Bluray Hi Rez audio @billspecfoc I outputs DSD via HDMI for sure, but dunno via SPDIF. It does converts DSD to PCM, but conversion is not great quality IMHO. | |
| One of the best HDMI cable? @chrisr and even then after 25 feet no 18Gbps signal is passed, and they state it as well. |