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Post by MartinT on Jun 30, 2020 12:16:44 GMT
Are there any on eBay or HiFiforSale?
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Post by John on Jun 30, 2020 12:30:01 GMT
They do pop up occasionally
If you are willing to sacrifice Amazon the Tinkerboard is well within your budget and would give you enough for cables and a reclocker.
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Post by tim1750 on Jun 30, 2020 12:34:48 GMT
The only trouble is John that the only reason i'm looking at a streamer is because i have Amazon prime that has free (but limited ) streaming of music.
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Post by user211 on Jun 30, 2020 12:42:09 GMT
Why stream it? Just use a laptop and USB for Amazon Music.
Or connect your laptop to a TV via HDMI and use the TVs optical out and the TVs display as your view to the Amazon Music software.
I've been doing the later for years. And I have a crazy (IMHO) good system. At the moment I use a projector to display my laptop at 100 inches and the projector's coax output.
Note I have tried quite a few fangled boxes for getting output to a DAC from a laptop. And I am happy using the above.
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Post by tim1750 on Jun 30, 2020 13:19:41 GMT
No laptop mate
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Post by user211 on Jun 30, 2020 13:29:10 GMT
For four hundred you could buy one that'll do the job.
It doesn't need to be good streaming music isn't much of a challenge. Lest you want to go mad getting the last 10% from specialist devices.
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Post by John on Jun 30, 2020 13:30:07 GMT
You can get reconditioned laptops for under £200. If you have a USB based DAC this would be a solution.
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 30, 2020 13:57:36 GMT
I think the boy Jerry uses a laptop and a reclocker like this!
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Post by user211 on Jun 30, 2020 17:30:36 GMT
I think the boy Jerry uses a laptop and a reclocker like this! I think it took me years to persuade Jerry this was the way to go. And I am not exaggerating:;
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Post by MartinT on Jun 30, 2020 17:37:32 GMT
Whoa, hang on, we've been adulating Jerry for starting many of us down the streaming route. Is he not the true God, then?
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Post by user211 on Jun 30, 2020 19:54:13 GMT
Whoa, hang on, we've been adulating Jerry for starting many of us down the streaming route. Is he not the true God, then? LOL. No. He did go through a worrying phase of saying Spotify sounded better than TIDAL which is bollocks. Then he seemed to recover. But the amount of persuasion required to get him to dabble in streaming was considerable. Trust me for while I am not God I speaketh the truth. I sell altars in my image for £13.99 on eBay. Yee should all buy one:;
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Post by MartinT on Jun 30, 2020 19:57:33 GMT
Hah! I can see why Jerry thought Spotify sounds better than Tidal. Superficially, it sounds nicer (especially with classical music).
Do I get a quantity discount on the altars? Must buy them all!
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Post by user211 on Jul 1, 2020 14:02:47 GMT
Your welcome to alll 7,298,367,829 of them at 0.00000376p each:D
I think classical as a genre is really challenging. There are so many below par recordings in that genre that less resolution could be beneficial. So yeah maybe it is understandable.
My system just lays classical recordings bare. I wouldn't want it if I liked classical.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 1, 2020 14:47:54 GMT
I'd agree it can be very challenging in terms of reproduction. Since I moved to digital streaming I'm listening to more and more recent high quality recordings, with less and less from the 'golden era' ...
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Post by Clive on Jul 1, 2020 14:50:16 GMT
I'd agree it can be very challenging in terms of reproduction. Since I moved to digital streaming I'm listening to more and more recent high quality recordings, with less and less from the 'golden era' ... For myself what works well is records for old stuff - it just seems right - and digital for recent music. I'm showing my age as I'm being nostalgic but at least I'm being progressive too!
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 1, 2020 14:52:42 GMT
Couldn't agree more Clive!
I just can't be bothered with the black stuff nowadays ...
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Post by Clive on Jul 1, 2020 14:55:18 GMT
Couldn't agree more Clive! I just can't be bothered with the black stuff nowadays ... Just the brownish coloured stuff.... (whisky)
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Post by user211 on Jul 1, 2020 15:28:29 GMT
Couldn't agree more Clive! I just can't be bothered with the black stuff nowadays ... Just started using it again LOL. My brother gave me 100 odd albums recently too. It is scary it can sound freakishly good when really IMHO it shouldn't. But wine and vinyl means getting up to a whole load of records which haven't been put away. Now that's a pain!
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Post by John on Jul 1, 2020 15:53:16 GMT
Another idea of getting a cheap player is get a Blue Ray Player that connects to the internet It would give you access to services you want
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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2020 15:59:57 GMT
I think classical as a genre is really challenging. There are so many below par recordings in that genre that less resolution could be beneficial. Yes, that's why I was only half joking about Spotify. It has a warm balance and is only guilty of omission in terms of resolution. Crank up, say, a mid-1980s DG recording involving a choral work on Qobuz and it can sound horrible. On the other hand, a well recorded Hi-Res stream of a small scale work can take your breath away. I was listening to the Decca recording of Haitink's Shostakovich 13 and the scale and dynamics took my head clean off, exactly as it should. The even older Decca recording of Lupu playing Grieg's Piano Concerto is quite awesome, even reproducing the rumble of the Underground trains under the old Kingsway Hall very clearly!
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