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| Music Server for feeding Theta Gen VIII DAC @honest1 when you say you want to rip CDs to your hard disk, is it that:a) You want to also use your computer to play the music back into your audio system but your computer isn't nearby so you can't simply connect a DAC to your computer?b) You wa... | |
| OPPO Sonica DAC to Lumin D2 Upgrade @jreale you can try out the LUMIN app interface without having a LUMIN device, and as shown in this photo the Tidal integration works the same way as playing music from your local music server.The OPPO Sonica remains an incredible bargain consider... | |
| VPI Classic 3 or SME 20/2 @stringreen I fully agree that an azimuth/crosstalk calibration is super important. Adjusting for azimuth on an SME V tonearm is very difficult, but possible. (It takes me a few hours.) Unfortunately you have to play with the cartridge on the arm,... | |
| Music streamer with no DAC and no storage? @ecat026 also you can play around with the LUMIN mobile app before purchasing a unit. The only thing that won't work is choosing a target device or setting preferences for a device.We ended deciding to carry LUMIN based on the quality and design o... | |
| Music streamer with no DAC and no storage? What do you intend to use as your music source and/or control app? That may play into recommendations. Most network streaming hardware does not include storage, and there are a fair number that don't include analog outputs, although I would say mo... | |
| Where to get XLR male to male cable You can find XLR male-male cables at pro audio web sites/stores. For example, Markertek has such cables available. Or you could probably ask Blue Jeans Cable or other cable companies to make you a pair. | |
| Streamer recommendations for dummies. I'm a strong proponent for Dirac Live room correction, over standard PEQ of frequency response. The time-domain correction is an incredible improvement, that pretty much everyone loves once they hear it.miniDSP's boxes are the most convenient way ... | |
| Quality streaming for newbie @griff69 well the LUMIN U1 Mini is a pure streamer at USD $2000. Or as audiotroy mentioned there is the D2 at USD $2300 which has a built-in DAC for analog outputs. So if the D2's DAC stage sounds good to you, you can get both a streamer and DAC w... | |
| Streamer recommendations for dummies. Why would this gentleman need a Dac based streamer sucn a Node when the Hegel has a good dac built in?The digital volume control applies to the digital outputs of the LUMIN products, and the LUMIN U1 and U1 Mini do not have analog outputs. What I ... | |
| Streamer recommendations for dummies. The digital volume control in LUMIN products is independent of the AirPlay source volume setting. So that means even if a guest has their iTunes/iPhone volume set to max, but the LUMIN is set at 50%, the music will come out pretty quiet. It'll act... | |
| Quality streaming for newbie I ended up with LUMIN based on the the quality of both hardware and software, and the sound character. But they're not on the inexpensive side of the spectrum. | |
| Magico A3 They are very backordered. Bass performance is excellent and what you would expect from a Magico design, but the smaller bass drivers means less total displacement versus an S3 MkII for example.After hearing them, I stopped caring about integratin... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp If you're comparing the analog outputs from a CD player to a DAC that is receiving digital audio data from a digital streaming source like a computer or network streamer, then the two primary aspects that could result in a difference are the relia... | |
| What will a preamp do for me? Could you bring your DAC over to a friend who has a preamp, to see if running your DAC at full volume eliminates the issues you hear at home, but running it below full volume adds it back in? That seems like a reasonable way to test if the volume ... | |
| RCA to XLR? Do I need to do this? You shouldn't use an RCA to XLR cable unless you know that it's going to be compatible, which you could confirm by asking the manufacturers. |