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    What stations do you listen to?

    I was about to start a new thread and then I saw this one which whilst old seems to have come back to life a bit so thought try here 1st. I used to listen to Wave105 which was brilliant and the DJ's / commentators have a great and often self deprecating humour amongst themselves, they got...
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    Too late? Gimmick or a good idea?

    I did similar ... bought same size SD, was using Amazon Music Unlimited at the time and downloaded their Hi Res tracks / my playlists to the card so I had them available offline rather than using mobile data.
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    Too late? Gimmick or a good idea?

    I honestly can't see that working especially of it's aiming at a portable market, why would you want to carry that as a secondary item and a heap of discs around when you have a phone with you that can hold thousands of songs or stream from a choice of 100 million. If it was home based and...
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    Wiim Ultra connections - Internal or external DAC

    I was a WiiM user and still am for all Multiroom situations. I got an Ultra and a Bluesound Nano both on home trial to pair with my Qutest, overall I found the Nano had a warmer sound with greater detail, WiiM's just sound "thin" in comparison and the bass to low mids a bit "compressed". They...
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    service feature discussion for research

    Not so sure it'd be a "favourite feature" but an essential one to me is easy connectivity, if it's a PITA, you're not going to use it. After that would be sound quality.
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    Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

    Sods bloomin law have seen 1 other to throw into the mix ... Sonus Faber Lumina 1 :LOL: Oh to be retired having won the lottery, I'd absolutely love the time just comparing them all, that'd be a hobby in itself. Have to say though. I'm heavily leaning towards the latecomer from what I've...
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    Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

    This is where my listening suffers as 80% of the time, it's either background music whilst talking or other people are in bed so most of the time it's very low. I'm guessing manufacturers probably "tune" systems / speakers at the sort of volume I was listening last night, so quiet is never...
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    Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

    "The Boss" is out tonight, I'm in my main listening room and as she's out have "cranked it up" .... not stupid loud, but louder than when she's gone to sleep which is a lot of my listening time. My whole system has jumped into life with no EQ or anything, I tried it with Dirac previously and...
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    Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

    That is a really useful article, the simple explanation of the bands at the end is brilliant!
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    Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

    I had a pair of Focal Aria 926's for over 6 months, for their cost I think they punched way above their weight and their detail / clarity was amazing, the only thing that got to me over time was the top end which became fatiguing with long listening sessions. I do still wonder if I should...
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    swapping to a music streaming amp

    That's what I believed from other's comments, I back to backed a WiiM Ultra and a Bluesound Nano, both using USB out into a DAC and granted it was hard to spot but I did feel there was a small difference in sound. That's just my eperience.
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    Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

    I am looking at upgrading some speakers and appreciate I'm only going to know which I prefer by actually listening to them both but I was just generally interested if most people had a leaning towards a precise, monitor type sound, or if you'd generally err towards something with some colour / a...
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    swapping to a music streaming amp

    Can you "cast" Amazon music to it, it's on eof the things the OP mentioned in the original post.
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    swapping to a music streaming amp

    I'd definitely look at the BE65's then unless you want to spend a lot more going to another brand. If you don't want the cost of replacing them all at once, do the critical ones 1st as the X50's will work with the others .... or just do the critical ones and use the X50's in the "lesser" needed...
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    Qobuz & Multiroom

    I was literally about to swich from Tidal to Qobuz as if you're using the App on Windows, Tidal often doesn't see the available devices / streamers and I'm sure when I trialled Qobuz towards the end of last year, it wouldn't see groups on Qobuz Connect but you could see Chromecast groups ...