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| Network Bridge/Streamer only for Qobuz For under $800, I'd also recommend a Bluesound Node for digital output, if your primary goal is just Qobuz and you plan to use an external DAC. There are definitely reasons to consider something like a Lumin D2 or some other streaming DAC all-in-... | |
| Magico M9 a ton of weight and a million dollar price tag $750,000 I’ve never heard a Magico that wasn’t designed for a lot of space or a lot of room control. In my experience a large room or significant treatments are not at all necessary for Magico speakers to sound outstanding. I find the design of Magico's... | |
| Update on my TT causing distortion at higher volume @cinqcepages you're also doing at least basic calibration when you install the cartridge on your tonearm? Failure to calibrate may be why you find the 2M Red fatiguing since that's generally not the case for that cartridge. Which is why it can be ... | |
| Lumin Ap on Lumin players - not so good? @ojc Lumin devices support multiple music streaming protocols, so there is more than one way to get music to play through them. I am guessing you probably ended up using AirPlay to stream music direct from the Qobuz app to your Lumin T2. AirPlay w... | |
| What next after Lumin T2 @backwash I agree that it depends a lot on what you are looking for in an upgrade. The X1 is certainly a significant hardware upgrade and for many also a significant sonic upgrade. If you want the best-of-the-best Lumin then of course you'd go wit... | |
| IsoAcoustics Gaia w/MAGICO Magico speakers should be used with the included spikes or their *POD feet because the speakers are designed to be coupled to the floor. Spikes and the *PODs couple to the floor. | |
| Does a graphic equalizer show where your amp is lacking? A graphic equalizer boosts or cuts certain frequency ranges in volume. It has less control over the frequency range than a parametric equalizer (which, as the name indicates, allows you to set parameters on the boosts and cuts). So it is kind of ... | |
| Improvement in Musicality for home theater system I think when people say musical it is often in the direction that @ghdprentice refers to, although it doesn't have to be with tubes. It often describes attributes that can be opposite what you want in a home theater setup (speech may become less c... | |
| Wireless vs. Ethernet for Streaming Since you've built out a new mesh network and confirmed strong signal distribution, Wi-Fi will work just fine for you. It's the older protocol versions (particularly before 802.11ac in ~2013) or if you have signal reliability issues that could cr... | |
| How Do I Stream Netflix Audio On A Smart TV To My AV Receiver Since your smart TV only has optical audio output, that's what you'll have to use if you want to use your smart TV app for streaming video. Unfortunately this does mean you will be limited to the audio codecs that will go out over optical, which i... | |
| Tiny Room (6' x 9') speaker advice If you really want to go vintage (but still modern and good) you could look for a currently manufactured model of the BBC studio monitor LS3/5A. Some examples are listed on that Wikipedia page, on which the Harbeth P3ESR XD is included. There's al... | |
| Think ill just go with a lumin I would also recommend going with the T2 over the D2 if it is within your budget. There is a very large improvement in sound quality, unless the specific character of the D2 is more to your personal liking. Lumin has an outstanding software stack... | |
| Does anybody make... Higher end surround sound processors with matrix routing would work. | |
| Questions on using Roon Roon has three pieces to its software architecture: Core (server), Renderer (playback), Client (controller). All three of these things can be one computer, like if you install everything on one computer and then just listen to speakers or headphon... | |
| Lumin U1 Mini - how to set up Network *without* Ethernet cables? @julie_priest as others have mentioned, the Lumin devices are Ethernet-only. You must use an Ethernet cable. Fuzztone's link is broken, but I think he was linking to something like the TP-Link AC750 which we've also used many times. The Lumin wil... |