Recent content by AndrewF

Oh, sorry. Missed that. It’s 545am here…. :- )

svs 3000. Great little sub. Excellent app for tuning it.

This is an excellent point. I sometimes have to tell my inner audiophile to “shut up and listen to the music, not the gear”.

This editorial comes across as a bit condescending, and considering the likely audience of audiophiles, more than a little self-congratulatory. I don’t think anyone is questioning that “good gear sounds better”, although there is very definitely a point of diminishing return and a lot of snake...

I picked up a pair of Triangle Borrea BR3's for $250. They're awfully nice standmounts, even for twice that price. I have them paired with an Onkyo integrated amp and a Wiim Mini, in a very competent secondary system. With speakers stands and a bag of river rocks, the whole system (including...

Perhaps the device in the middle imparts friction, and the bits end up a bit smaller.

I don't really recall when it changed. A few months ago, I think. When I first got the CXN V2, it reported AAC 256. I was using an old Ipad wired to it for a while for Hi-Res. But, that was a bit of a hassle, and my daughter needed the Ipad, so I went back to AirPlay 2, and it was reporting CD...

This is all getting very Schrodinger’s cat… whatever the heck it is, it sounds brilliant. And I am unable to detect any difference between whatever it is and the highest possible resolution files fed directly in from a wired connection. Your mileage may vary, as they say in the advertisements.

My streamer has been showing Apple Music streaming CD quality (as stated in that link) for quite some time now. Thankfully, I am utterly unable to detect any difference between that and potentially even larger formats.

There's an FAQ about this sort of stuff on the Cambridge website.

You would use the Cambridge StreamMagic app, which offers Qobuz (you log in at some point). Or maybe you can just use the Qobuz app. Either way, it works.

I tried Qobuz, but I found I preferred just to stick with one service. Being able to stream to 2 or 3 rooms at a time is also nice. Perhaps I am fortunate in that plain old CD quality still sounds awfully good to me. (as an aside, the Lecht does indeed rock. I did a very long bike ride- 3...

Positive. It’s 16/44.1. It displays on my streamers.

Apple Music Classical is their classical platform. Apple is odd sometimes- pretty much all of their music is available as hi-res files, but you have to physically stream it (I have used a USBC-A cable from an Ipad to my streamer). Airplay is currently "limited" to 16/44.1 (my understanding is...

Thanks. I suspect it will eventually come. Having experimented with hi-res in a variety of ways, I have largely decided that it isn't "mission critical", for me at least.