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I have yet to see somthing telling me that companies implement this standard in their loudness control, which would be useless any way. The amplifier not having any way to know the sensitivity of the speakers nor their colorations or even how they react with the room, what room modes you do...

Ok, at what frequency? With what Q factor? How many Db's? Is there a standard among companies who build amplifier with loudness that makes it really usefull? Are the really really high end companies that produce 40,000$ amplifier that don't have loudness control preventing us from hearing good...

If your standalone DAC does have a free input to allow your bluray to be connected. If you had an A/V receiver, chances are that you set your digital output to bitstream which probably won't be compatible with your DAC. What you'll have to do is set it to PCM which will make your bluray output a...

Pioneer usually release the entry level receivers in the spring and the mid and top level receivers in the fall. This year will be the same. From what I heard recently from people in the industry, we don't have to worry that anythings going to change as a far as product developpment goes. I...

I don't know that much about the Qnap but according to the specs alone, the Synology blows it out of the water. Where I work, we've been using and selling Qnap NAS'es for a number of years until a couple months ago when we switched to Synology. The Qnap hav been nice and reliable performers for...

There is something wrong with loudness if you want to hear the music the way intended by the artist/producer. If you want your amplifier to be part of the creative process than you turn the loudness on. If you want yourself to become part of the creative process than you create your own...

What kind of smartphone do you have? If you have any recent Samsung or LG or Sony with Android 5+ running on it, you could get an OTG adapter and connect the USB port of the phone directly to your DAC. Then for DLNAUPNP capacity, it's built in most android phones but I myslef prefer to use...

Because their customers want's it. I don't know the image of pioneer where you are but here in Canada, the usual Pioneer buyers will go for a lot of bass, a lot of power and a lot of coloration and those characteristics will make Pioneer better than other brands in their mind. I don't know of...

it would be the way to go but, If you have an iDevice, (which I assume you do since you're on Apple music) there's no version of BubbleUPNP availlable for you. It's a great app and I've been using it for years but they don't make an iPhone/iPad version. So you're stuck with the Marantz app which...

I have a Synology NAS drive. I'd recommend it to anyone planning to do something like you plan. The problem with getting a NAS like the Synology is that the can do so many different things, you may end up buying a NAS just for music sharing (DS216SE for example) and discovering latter that you...

I personnaly wouldn't go for either and prefer a separate streamer/integrated amp approach. But if I HAD to choose between the 2, I'd go for the Onkyo based on the fact that the Power node 2 is a class D amp which I hate and it doesn't even have what I consider a classic feature of class D amp...

The Sonos connect would do the trick with the added advantage of being able to choose from 3 different wireless speakers for the rest of the house. the connect does sound good but it doesn't put an end to the hifi streaming discussion and it doesn't play Hirez content. If you want better in the...

Late answer. Don't konw if you're still interested in the subject. Both are DLNA. None of them support Tidal by itself but if you have and android tablet or smartphone you can stream with Tidal in both those devices using Bubble UPNP as your DLNA controller. As far as sound goes, although i've...