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Yes I'm one of those wing nuts that will spend thousands on speaker cables and interconnects. And this year after quite some time I did a few upgrades. My current system consists of Gershman Avant Garde Speakers, a Bryston B100 with DAC , { the amp is new to me this year but bought used } a { new } Rega Planar 6 with Ania cartridge , a { new } Graham Slee Gold phono stage and Elevator { necessary as the Ania cartridge is low output moving coil } A pair of 8 foot Nordost Red Dawn speaker cables and Nordost Blue Heaven interconnects for all components requiring them .
And the reason for starting this thread . A Bluesound Streamer with Qobuz as a streaming service and a Humminguru Nova ultrasonic record cleaner ..... I would like to get others opinions of streamed music and offer my own. And second make a recommendation on Ultrasonic record cleaners others may find useful .....
So I'll start with my observations of streaming and await others who may have an opinion. My first method was to hook up the Bluesound Node with RCA interconnects . This uses the built in DAC in the Node. I then hooked it up via SPDIF coaxial cable which bypasses the built in DAC and uses the one in my Bryston ..... The Bryston DAC showed it's superiority immediately with more clarity and separation of instruments .....
So I'll start with what I like
An unlimited library of music . Hi Res files that are extremely clean with extended ranges both high and low .
What I don't like .
After downloading several hundred albums to my favorites there is no way to organize them other than by the date they were added . If I add an Art Pepper album on one date and another on another date the order listed will be separated by the albums added in between ..... I have been in contact with Qobuz and they are beta testing a solution which will allow sorting to be alphabetical .... I can solve the problem by using ROON but that adds about $220 Canucklebucks to the annual cost ..... Not out of the question but I'm inclined to let Qobuz beta test and then offer me a solution.
And then there is the listening experience. The clarity and separation of instruments is awesome . But I find myself jumping around and never listening to an album all the way through. After several comparisons using records of high quality recordings { Art Pepper has extremely high quality recordings } I have found that depth of the sound stage just isn't there like it is on a record ..... A dilemma, depth of sound stage versus media quality .... So far I prefer the record experience but not by a whole lot ...... With Classical music I prefer the streamer ......
Would love to hear other music streamer's opinions if there are any out there ? ..... I realize this is a motorcycle site so there may not be other nut bars like me out there but maybe there is ? If so tell me about your experience and which streaming service you use .....
And the reason for starting this thread . A Bluesound Streamer with Qobuz as a streaming service and a Humminguru Nova ultrasonic record cleaner ..... I would like to get others opinions of streamed music and offer my own. And second make a recommendation on Ultrasonic record cleaners others may find useful .....
So I'll start with my observations of streaming and await others who may have an opinion. My first method was to hook up the Bluesound Node with RCA interconnects . This uses the built in DAC in the Node. I then hooked it up via SPDIF coaxial cable which bypasses the built in DAC and uses the one in my Bryston ..... The Bryston DAC showed it's superiority immediately with more clarity and separation of instruments .....
So I'll start with what I like
An unlimited library of music . Hi Res files that are extremely clean with extended ranges both high and low .
What I don't like .
After downloading several hundred albums to my favorites there is no way to organize them other than by the date they were added . If I add an Art Pepper album on one date and another on another date the order listed will be separated by the albums added in between ..... I have been in contact with Qobuz and they are beta testing a solution which will allow sorting to be alphabetical .... I can solve the problem by using ROON but that adds about $220 Canucklebucks to the annual cost ..... Not out of the question but I'm inclined to let Qobuz beta test and then offer me a solution.
And then there is the listening experience. The clarity and separation of instruments is awesome . But I find myself jumping around and never listening to an album all the way through. After several comparisons using records of high quality recordings { Art Pepper has extremely high quality recordings } I have found that depth of the sound stage just isn't there like it is on a record ..... A dilemma, depth of sound stage versus media quality .... So far I prefer the record experience but not by a whole lot ...... With Classical music I prefer the streamer ......
Would love to hear other music streamer's opinions if there are any out there ? ..... I realize this is a motorcycle site so there may not be other nut bars like me out there but maybe there is ? If so tell me about your experience and which streaming service you use .....
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