motokokusanagi
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| Best return for the money, system upgrade suggestions please. Unless your room is already done, 100% acoustic treatments! Check out GIK Acoustics stuff. No gear upgrade can match the sound per dollar spent on acoustics. Next would be speaker placement (free!) | |
| Bluesound vs SOtM Wait up. The Codex can be used in preamp output mode with USB input; that’s one of its features. Check the manual https://www.ayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ayre_Codex_Manual.pdf You’re making the assumption that the brittle sound is due to t... | |
| Relaxed, musical DAC around 2k used? Of used listings atm that I've heard, there's an M51 for a good price (I still use one!) and the aforementioned Auralic Vega. Also a Metrum Onyx which might be up your alley. | |
| 3 Options of Speakers + Integrated Amp. appreciate all the thoughts about.. No experience of them! But why these particular pairs (seems limiting)? | |
| NAD C 375BEE Integrated Amp Replacement Recommendations There's a used NAD M3 listing atm. Heard this at a couple shows and sounds smooth and powerful. It's an older item, though. They just released a streaming M10, which might be worth a try and new, it's within your budget. | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more There are only so many devices that meet your criteria; they all seem to be listed on the mqa website under the streamer section https://www.mqa.co.uk/customer/our-partners HDMI would be the sticking point that might make you look at the mainstre... | |
| Need to under stand Asynchronous USB ...the Marantz is doing the playback; the iPad is just a remote control; your wifi network contains all the data being sent to and from the Tidal servers | |
| Auralic Aries Mini..... How much? wow Clueless pricing. I think it's actually more than it was new several years ago! | |
| Need to under stand Asynchronous USB It depends on the device. The old squeezebox touch's digital out was better wired vs wifi, but times have moved on, e.g. with the new Auralic stuff, wifi is reported to be equal if not preferred. You can just try comparing the two on your Marantz. | |
| Upgrading Integrated Amplifier - Musical Fidelity? I dislike Musical Fidelity and find their stuff hardly sounds warm. Cambridge is better but again, not warm. Try Marantz. | |
| 3 things I learned from using MANY interconnect cables Hats off to you for going through so many! I agree on the price thing, disagree on the second point, and can't comment on the third, but see the logic. I think most of the time we're not hoarding cables we didn't already like much in the hope they... | |
| Furutech FP-3TS762 or FP-TCS31 As said above, from my small sample set (basic Wattgates, basic copper Furutechs), I do think you can continue to tweak your sound by changing the connectors over time to different platings. Kind of expensive to do but might give the ultimate syne... | |
| Does any one know a cable that is able to compete with clear day double shotgun? Yeah I’m OCD so I took out a big cable loan from cableco. I mean, a lot of cable stuff is very system dependent. For me it went:1. Audience AU242. Black Cat Morpheus (discontinued, sounded very nice and much cheaper than Audience, but picked up RF... | |
| Question About DACs Think you've made your point, pal! Though nobody is interested in arguing it. | |
| Need to under stand Asynchronous USB Last follow up, trying to improve the USB stick input on the Marantz would be sketchy. It’s going to be one of those USB 1.0 devices like on a cheap blu-ray player, and you’re still connecting to the M51 via coax anyways. I mean, you’re using the ... |