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- Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:09 am
- Forum: Preamps
- Topic: New CJ ART88 Preamp
- Replies: 171
- Views: 371966
Re: New CJ ART88 Preamp
This is NOT Matty’s fault. 100% correct. Not suggesting it as all. He is being totally screwed over by Audio Freaks. What I was implying was that Matty has not elevated the issue to the right people (ie contacting CJ about how he should proceed). I'm not trying to victim blame, rather the opposite,...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:37 am
- Forum: Preamps
- Topic: New CJ ART88 Preamp
- Replies: 171
- Views: 371966
Re: New CJ ART88 Preamp
I was wondering if any of you have had these sort of issues and if so, what was wrong and how was it fixed... by CJ or another techie. I think after many years most people will have issues with at least one unit in their system. I can recall 3 personally. 1) My APC power conditioner died. I was on ...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:59 pm
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
You also mention that it is a glass toslink cable. These are the "higher end" material as most consumer toslink cables are made from plastic fiber and not glass. The advantage of glass is less light attenuation so you can do longer runs. But they can also be more fragile. It may have crack...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 11:57 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
If the cable was ever bent to much, it could have broken the optical fiber, if their is any dirt on the ends of the cable, that could block the signal as well. so that is another reason I will always try a 2nd cable if something is not working. Optical is by far the most finicky cable system. Ok, th...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 10:34 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
I've had these issues with toslink in the past. Rules of thrumb: 1) Try another cable. 2) Have the cable as short as possible. 3) Hold the cable with your hand and slight push it in while trying to play music. I've had a lot of loose connectors and with toslink this could be an issue. The USB connec...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 10:22 am
- Forum: Preamps
- Topic: New CJ ART88 Preamp
- Replies: 171
- Views: 371966
Re: New CJ ART88 Preamp
It's a very sad situation with Matty and Audio Freaks. But as you say, Matty really needs to help himself at this point.
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:42 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
If you can select the digital source (optical or coax) then there shouldn't be any issues connecting both at the same time. If not my personal prejudice is for coax but that's mainly because my Oppo 105D is limited to outputing 96/24 via toslink. There are no limitations up to DSF 64 via coax. You ...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:39 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
AJ, I think you made a smart choice. This will get your feet wet and I think the Node is a very solid performer. You will be able to access any music service, local files, and experiment with different output options (usb/toslink/coax) to see which one you prefer. The BluOS app is very similar to HE...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:01 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
Two questions for admin (or others): 1. Are you saying that the one box solution is more likely to become obsolete than say a streamer and a DAC in separate boxes? Intuitively it makes sense that that this might be the case. I think the streamer will be obsolete quickly. Let's use a real world exam...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:13 pm
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
PS Audio and dCS address this upgrade issue, dCS going all the way to argue that their products are “future proof.” But, as you point out, how far into the future is an open question. Agree, that's a hard sell. If you look at their dCS control app, it needs android version 4.4 (kitkat) or above. Th...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
I think easier to support because it is fewer units so less dealer issues (like ground loops, compatibility between devices, etc) and the manufacturer will handle most hardware failures. If something breaks in a 150B, it's not going on a bench, it's going back to the factory for replacement. So this...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:57 pm
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
For better or worse, I think you have caught the streaming bug.
I also think that the dCS setup has caught your fancy. Maybe time to pull the trigger and start going down this rabbit hole?
I also think that the dCS setup has caught your fancy. Maybe time to pull the trigger and start going down this rabbit hole?
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:35 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
I know the theory that one streamer is as good as the next since it’s just handling 1s and 0s. But so is the DAC. Keep in mind however that "ideally", the digital stream output of every streamer should be identical. But the output of every DAC will be different (even if ever so slightly)....
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:50 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Surprised by Power
- Replies: 237
- Views: 6823
Re: Surprised by Power
Very nice. Just goes to show you that a system can always evolve and that sometimes we introduce a new component that we first thought to be superfluous but proves to be a significant advantage.
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:46 am
- Forum: Non-CJ Products-Audio
- Topic: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
- Replies: 73
- Views: 35982
Re: Amazon Music and how to get true lossless bitperfect HD/Ultra HD to play
You could get an inexpensive streamer that has usb/coaxial/optical output and use that to run into the Ruby for DAC utilization. Would be plug and play, no exotic cables, or complex computer configurations.
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:09 pm
- Forum: Member Presentation Thread
- Topic: I took the plunge and upgraded big time!
- Replies: 127
- Views: 58286
Re: I took the plunge and upgraded big time!
Just to be clear about it, the PS Audio FR20 is USD $18,999 in the US. https://www.psaudio.com/products/aspen-fr20-loudspeaker/ Good point Joe. I overlooked that the $50k was the "down unda" price. Sometimes I forget that the poor folks in Australia are paying twice the amount for their g...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Audio and Video Discussion
- Topic: Joe Pass: Virtuoso
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1247
Re: Joe Pass: Virtuoso
I listened to this album the other week. Very nice. Acoustic guitar always sounds amazing. Joe Pass is a very talented musician.
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 2:54 pm
- Forum: Amplifiers
- Topic: Conrad Johnson Premier 140 Vs Conrad Johnson Premier twelve
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8766
Re: Conrad Johnson Premier 140 Vs Conrad Johnson Premier twelve
I forgot to mention that all rooms are inherent with room boundaries resonances. These resonances are the ones that we must treat in the room and they do not belong to the music. These resonances make to have usually a one musical note bass. Treat just the room corners. There is no need to treat al...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 2:38 pm
- Forum: Member Presentation Thread
- Topic: I took the plunge and upgraded big time!
- Replies: 127
- Views: 58286
Re: I took the plunge and upgraded big time!
Mmm... that very speaker was on show at our last Melb hifi. The turn out was great but the show demos overall were quite disappointing. One of those disappointments were the PS Audio speakers, with a price tag close to 50grand AUD, it was no where close to any of the panel designs we own. In that c...
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:37 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting/problems/manuals/schematics
- Topic: Official Schematics and Manuals Thread (Registered Users)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 127524