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  1. Hi Chris, Is there any reason why you have chosen Dolby Atmos (at consideral expence) rather than BACCHdsp? I'd love to hear your view on both, as I assume you have had the opportunity to investigate both. I, unfortunately have not. Thanks.
  2. Mine is also attached to the wall sitting on 2 10x10cmx1cm brackets behind one of my racks which is about 14cm from the wall. Velcro is attached to the brackets and 4 2cm sq pieces of velcro are attached to the underside of the ER which keeps it nicely in place. Air flow is almost on all sides and the ER gets no warmer than my LPS 1.2.
  3. Good point! I'll contact Sonore for their advice. Cheers.
  4. I may be purchasing an Ultrarendu shortly here in UK but am unsure of the setup procedure. I was under the impression that I could connect direct from my laptop to the rendu via an ethernet cable and selecting DLNA within JRiver/Audirvana and the rendu but my son say's it isn't as simple as that. I don't use a NAS nor do I particularly want to. I have no idea what switches are when referred to on forums here and have no interest in creating a 'network'. I simply want to use my laptop as a source device as I do now and would like to obtain better sound quality in my system, hence the rendu. Music is stored locally on a 1TB SSD within the laptop. Am I the only one on this site with an interest in computer audio/sound quality (for many years now) who doesn't have a degree in computing. I guess I could just purchase the rendu and leave it up to my son but he doesn't live particularly close by so I would really like to know what needs to be done. Any pointers would be gratefully received. Many thanks.
  5. Did you consider the Classe CP-800 by any chance. I've read good reviews about it and have now added the AMR as well to my list of 2 to audition shortly. Terry
  6. The Asus Aspire 5750 i5 i'm looking at has 2 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0 so i'll take it as it comes and enjoy the music. Terry
  7. Thanks George - maybe able to stretch to an Acer with i5 4GB at present time.
  8. Thank you all very much. I've decided to buy a new laptop to keep in my (small) listening room, that way i wont need to move it about if dual purpose and less hastle. Probably a HP pavilion G6 Win 7 4GB RAM although not quite made my mind up on that one, maybe a Samsung. Laptop Win 7 - if's it's good enough for dCS it'll be good for me. For the time being anyway. May dip my toes in deeper as i get more into it. I will of course get the OS stripped back as per recommendations here on CA, i understand you can get it down to about 200MB or less. I look forward to seeing the J Rivers interface on the screen and hopefully a step in the right direction regarding SQ over the Touch. Terry
  9. I have dbPoweramp on my present laptop which i have used a few times now so i quess if i do purchase the J Rivers i will have 2 options.
  10. Thanks Julf, will do. I understand the J Rivers MC has a copy CD function and i assume that would be bit perfect? Terry
  11. Thank you Mark/firedog - I shall investigate both options. I am not a computer geek nor even a trainee computer geek so if i do get into setup problems i will have to rely on my son to help me out - not as easy as putting a CD in a tray. I do intend to rip all my CD's over time to the computer for ease of use and even possibly a better SQ (according to Classe and others). I am also listening through my vinyl collection at the moment to determine which i would like to replace with a Hi-rez/CD version and have on the computer as i may be moving abroad and will not be taking my turntable and all the vinyl records with me. Terry
  12. Thanks for the replys guys. I have looked on the net re: 'dual boot' (thanks Bob) and there are literally thousands of queries on the subject - really not something i want to get into at all - i want to keep it simple and just have another piece of equipment to enjoy my music on. So it looks like a new Netbook/laptop is on the cards. Why Linux guys? dCS do state that 'great sound' can be had from Windows, OS X, and linux but add, i quote, 'However, Linux is extremely difficult for the average user to install and use', again, maybe something to think about in the future. Decent laptops with 4GB RAM aren't exactly cheap - is it really necessary to remove the HDD and replace with SSD? A 128GB SSD would add about another 140 GBP (approx 220 USD) here in UK. Unfortunately, the Wadia 816 only does 96Khz and not 192. Wadia UK told me the machine would probably not detect it at all. I recently bought a 192 album from Naimlabel and downsampled it to 96 to enjoy now and look forward to hearing it as Naim intended when/if i get a new DAC. Cheers Terry
  13. I have been using the Sqeezebox Touch for about 12 months now,digital out to my Wadia 861 replaying hi-rez files on 32gb USB sticks and am very happy with the sound quality considering the low price of the Touch in relation to the cost of hi-fi components in general. I realise that computer audio is the future and after reading the guide from dCS have decided to extract as much as i can, sound quality wise, from my music collection by using a laptop dedicated to audio. When my son found out i was thinking of buying another laptop for this purpose he thought it a waste of money saying i could 'split' my present machine - by which meaning keeping the Windows 7 with all it's everyday applications and adding a barebones Windows XP for audio only with J Rivers 17 media centre and any thing else required for play back. Apparently, selecting XP on switch-on and letting Windows 7 hibernate will keep all deleterous garbage on that OS out of harms way - is this possible? has anyone here done the same? At the moment my digital music is stored on the laptop and backed up on a Lacie 1TB hard drive. I assume i would use this hard drive connected to the laptop in future for play back as i understand the J Rivers moves the music you wish to listen to to RAM - does this seem feasible? I have ordered a Musical Fidelity V-link 2 to use between the computer and DAC for the meantime until i can decide on a USB asynchronous DAC that will offer an improvement on the Wadia 861 (probably a hard act to follow). When the V-Link is delivered i will then be pestering my son to assist on the computer side of things as i'm not that much of a techie. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Terry
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