mgrif104
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| KEF Reference 3 I own KEF Reference 3s so you should understand that I’m biased in their favor. I am also not familiar w/ the Q acoustics Concepts. We are all guilty of promoting gear we own. That cleared up: the KEFs are well regarding for imaging and soundsta... | |
| Auralic Aries G2.1 or Innuos Zenith mk3 I have the Aries G2 (not 2.1) and wasn’t able to compare it to the Innuous, unfortunately. So, I won’t opine on which is better. I will say that the G2’s build quality is very high and that it sounds better than my Aurender N100H in direct compa... | |
| Audirvana VS Roon, and Mac Mini VS Innuos Zenith MkII @nyev,good post. I don’t have the same equipment, but I do have a similar experience to share. I tried Roon at the suggestion of many on here. From a user interface - it’s unmatched. But, on a whim, I compared the same streamed file through Ro... | |
| 0s & 1s are all the same aren’t they? Is it really worth paying for a “better” Streamer? You’ll find there’s a recent thread just a few below this one that covers the same subject. And, in that thread you’ll find scores of us who find better streamers make a very significant difference and a good number of respondents who believe in ... | |
| Upgrading power cable to AQ Niagara 5000? @gshepardbuster interesting. Can you tell me more about what you experienced? Which did you like best? And, what cords are you using from the Niagara to your power amp? | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Good grief. Expectation/confirmation bias goes both ways. All devices were level matched. I went in a skeptic. | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Sangbro: May I suggest you go back and read your postings? I, too, have a healthy sense of skepticism. Further, I don’t enjoy throwing money around - I enjoy saving it. But I also enjoy music immensely and so I feed a hobby which costs more th... | |
| Upgrading power cable to AQ Niagara 5000? Thanks fuzztone and Rodman. I’ll try the cable company in January.Best, | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? I’m really surprised there are so many who say no difference at all. My experience says otherwise. And yes, I have DACs which reject jitter well. My journey started with a fully optimized and dedicated Mac mini for serving music only. I then bo... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please In my own application with my servers (different systems), USB is better sounding than S/PDIF, or AES EBU (same as S/PDIF). So, obviously YMMV. | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cerrot I guess I’m a bit slow. I completely agree you shouldn’t use USB coming out of a computer. But, if you have an N10 to serve your DAC, USB is more than fine depending on the DAC. I was only suggesting that generalizing USB as bad may not ... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cerrot The sound quality of USB is highly system dependent. There are plenty of high quality DACs for which the manufacturer is recommending USB as the preferred connection. Certainly, If I were using a traditional computer as a source, I would a... | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please @cleeds sorry to hear of your experience. My own experience has been quite good. I found the system more stable than the other servers I own and updates effortless. I’m at a loss to explain the difference but it should be noted by the OP. | |
| What's my ideal music server? Read and recommend please There are a good number of threads attempting to answer this question and you might find it beneficial to look through this forum toward that end. The Aurender N100H is a very good unit - in terms of quality, it’s the middle range of the three se... | |
| NAD M33 Initial Thoughts I have an NAD M12 and M22 - predecessors to the M33 - in one of my systems. It is pretty good gear and it’s my expectation that your M33 is superior. it’s also well known that it takes about 400 hours of break in to achieve the designed performa... |