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  1. @blues man Thank you for bringing attention to low cost high performing gadget such as the Douk. As I was looking for headphonne amp, this one somehow popped up in Amazon. I am delving into a headphone based system and without knowing anything, just purchased a Lavaudio DS400 and now thinking if can get the output from that into an decent amp, it might work fabulously. I did not see any headphone output for this and i am looking for a wired headphone. Any thoughts on using this for my use case? Thanks, Ahmed
  2. Rajeev, Any comment on the lower end of the Plannar headphones such as https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=39414. Ahmed
  3. @Edouard I had used your posting as a guide to buy BSN 3rd generation recently. It had replaced an ALOO Digione signature streamer which was connected to 20 year old Harman Kardon Signature 1 preamp via Coaxical cable. I could not listen to any MQA material as the internal DAC could not process that and the sound quality left a lot to desire. My ideal choice was NAD c658 but absolutely no regret with BSN. This system comprises of a pair of NHT Bookshelf, a SVS S/W, Carver THX amp and Project turn table. I did not set the BSN sound to fixed as its acting as pre-amp for the amp and turntable. I am so pleased at the result that I often listen to this secondary system. The soundstage is wide, the separation is decent and specially the tone of the guitar is magnificent for my favorite Mark Knopfler for all of the MQA or Tidal music. With the turntable, the sound stage is not that great but it does an adequate job. In order to augment BSN, I had added Pangea Power cable and also a Powerquest cable to connect the phono to the BSN. Thank you for writing a very analysis and walk through.
  4. Hi: I use a Harman Kardon Signature 2.0 Preamp to connect Digione Signature Player in my system. I have noticed that any thing encoded in MQA or resolution higher then 96 does not play in my system. I had bought the BNC to RCA adpater for the other output and have tried using that to an analog RCA in the HK. The RCA in is tied to a different source such as TV in the HK or the SPDIF from Allo is connected to my CD source. I do not get any sound out of the BNC/RCA output. Any ideas on this issue. Thanks, Ahmed
  5. You can take a look at Allo at https://allo.com/sparky/digione-signature-player.html After the first time, you would not need to ever make any changes in the configuration and they have an UI over to configure everything.
  6. Hi: I have a headless setup of Allo Signature and wondering what is the best way to turn off the Allo. Both of the cards are being powered through outlets right now rather than battery pack. My biggest fear is that I might be corrupting the SD card if I don't go through a proper shut down. Thanks, Ahmed
  7. Live in the twin cities but bought my audio research amp from Paragon. They are great.
  8. Hi All: I have a Lenovo TS140(Xeon) with 16GB RAM. I currently use it to run Hyper-V with one VM which does Roon Core and I run Plex on the main server. I am thinking of porting Plex into Azure and repurpose this TS140 to run as Roon Core machine. This is a headless machine, which will be stuck in a media closet area, that I had developed at home and will be hardwired to the network. I am thinking of putting Windows 10 on this machine. Good or bad idea and anything else that I should think of. This machine does not have any SSD but two seagate HD. I was thinking of keeping my QNAP as the source of music instead of the HD. I would appreciate any input. Ahmed
  9. Chris, proud to be a Minnesotan for people like you, who does these amazing acts of selfless and condolence to your friend.
  10. Hi CA Community: I had seen a posting here that its possible to have the Raspbian OS to run in RAM and not depend on the SD card, hence, able to restart RPI everytime vs leave it on. I am using a RPI3 + Hifiberry Digi + WiFi for my renderer. I am not able to find the article so far and reaching out to you kind folks to give me a pointer on how to do this. I did see the use of tmpfs and making the SD card read only in google but am hoping to hear from this community for a music only implementation. Thanks, Ahmed
  11. Crowd, thanks a lot for taking the time and give me great feedback. My ARC is brand new and the documentation that came with says that I would need at least 600 hours of burn in time. I will stay put and let the speakers and ARC burn in. I just played Eric Clapton's Pilgrim, which I always find that it exposes the weakness of any system and this setup handled it great. I love my Adcom and would find a new thing to put together with it. All of you had taken my knowledge to a different level!!!!
  12. Hi All: Just acquired almost new pair of Sonus Faber Olympica 2 and bought an AudioResearch DS225 Close out but brand amp to drive the Sonus. I have my favorite audio equipment which is an Adcom GFA-555 II power amp lying around as well. Any advice, if I bi-amplify the Sonus with Adcom using the AudioResearch for Hi/Mid and Adcom for the lower frequencies. I am still in the first week, so it will take time for the equipment to get burned in. Thanks, Ahmed
  13. My requirement is for a sub placed within 3-5 feet of the system.
  14. Thank you Sent from my SM-G920V using Computer Audiophile mobile app
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