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  1. I've been able to listen to the From Russia With Love and Evening with Riera recordings. Both are really good piano recordings, and I am a big fan of classical and jazz piano. Probably half of my listening is to solo piano recordings. I'm not sure I can articulately describe the differences from your earlier piano recordings. Those were terrific too, but these new ones seem to emerge from a blacker background and the bass register of the instrument in particular seems incredibly rich -- for example, in some of the Nutcracker movements. The piano sound is quite palpable and beautifully focused. I'm not sure if it is the new piano, new recording techniques, different pianists or all three. Anyway, these are excellent recordings!
  2. Mario: I would love to get a code as well. I have several of your older releases (they sound amazing to begin with) and will be interested in comparing the new sound. For another album, I would like From Russia With Love -- big fan of piano transcriptions! Thanks
  3. I'm having the same problem. Roon or Tidal keeps adding new albums as "favorites" and/or appear in my Roon library -- albums I've never heard of and definitely did not "favorite" intentionally in Tidal or "Add to Library" in Roon. (Not the album by Calcutta you refer to). This has been happening for the past week or so.
  4. Is it possible to set up Dirac to feed its signal to HQ Player, which could then upsample the Dirac-processed PCM to DSD and feed the signal to the DAC (in my case, a PS Audio DS DAC). In other words, is this configuration possible and, if so, how? Roon-->Dirac-->HQPlayer-->PS Audio DAC
  5. For anyone else with this problem, a search on the Roon community forums led to a quick solution: Use "Power-of-2 Hardware Buffer Size" in the Dirac zone settings in Roon. That did the trick. Thanks everyone.
  6. Dirac also works nicely with Audirvana, so the Roon-Dirac interface or Roon setup must be the problem. Any help would be welcome.
  7. Thank you for your suggestion. Dirac does work with iTunes, but Roon output is distorted. Anyone know if there is any reason why Roon is having trouble outputting to Dirac? If it matters, I am running under OS Sierra.
  8. I just installed Dirac trial version on a headless Mac Mini. I am familiar with the program from using the version integrated in Amarra IRC but I would like to use it with Roon now so I downloaded the standalone trial program. The measurements went fine but when I try to play Roon through Dirac (after selecting the Dirac driver as the Output in Mac Sound control), I get very heavily distorted music. I've rebooted a few times but cannot get it to work. Any ideas? Thanks.
  9. For Flavio: Oppo has now released its Sonica wireless speaker, which is apparently the first in a line of such speakers. The specs refer to "Room Optimization" and say "Sonica features built-in presets for optimizing the sound for different room sizes, speaker locations, and listening preferences." https://www.oppodigital.com/sonica/sonica-WiFi-Speaker-Overview.aspx Is Dirac enabled in this first Oppo wireless speaker? If not, can/will it be added to this particular unit via a firmware update? Thanks
  10. I'd love to hear the Cabrera plays Debussy or Debussy Preludes. Thanks!
  11. I have Iberia as well and would like to receive a code for the updated version. Many thanks!
  12. Just saw your post, so never mind what is below... What you are describing may be a MacMini problem -- if no monitor is plugged in, you get terrible performance. To ensure smooth video performance, you need to plug something like this into the video port: NewerTech 8-inch Headless Mac Video Accelerator in stock at OWC http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulator/dp/B00FLZXGJ6 I have a MacMini headless setup, which I control through Roon on a MacBook Pro (with Roon Server running on the Mac Mini). But for setting HQ Player or otherwise running programs on the Mac Mini, I use screen sharing with the second device plugged into the video port and I have no problem with HQ Player.
  13. kschac

    Songkong

    Interesting. I may try it.
  14. kschac

    Songkong

    Does it work with Roon? In other words, will Roon be able to use and display the corrected metadata information or is the program limited to iTunes?
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