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  1. Rodney_gold

    What's your listening volume

    Lifelike levels mostly .. some stuff louder
  2. Rodney_gold

    An upgrade most profound

    You got to come listen.. I can switch between Dirac, trinnov and uncorrected .. be prepared to be shocked... I have to go thru the trinnov first ... so at the moment streaming to the amp is out for me .., using a SBT as a roon endpoint.
  3. Rodney_gold

    Tidal/Roon issues

    Miles have you tried Restarting the router Restarting the core deleting tidal as a service under settings and reinstalling it downloading the latest roon build and reinstalling and adding tidal perhaps rolling back to an earlier version of roon (if thats possible) I am having issues with roon...
  4. Rodney_gold

    Tidal/Roon issues

    Does apple stream losslessly?
  5. Rodney_gold

    An upgrade most profound

    I am SO glad I waited and sprung for the Trinnov ... it is an amazing piece of gear and has wrought improvements that far eclipse any amp upgrade could produce .. I am doubtful I will go for the devialet upgrade ...especially after reading the issues you guys are having.
  6. Rodney_gold

    What is the City of Cape Town doing with the money for water development?

    Fake news and propaganda from the land that spawned Goebbles............
  7. Rodney_gold

    Vanessa Fernandez - Use Me

    I thought he was asking about the bass notes?
  8. Rodney_gold

    Vanessa Fernandez - Use Me

    Its a bass guitar... There was a whole spat with peter on whats best forum...he came across as a total ********..very pompous and dismissive to other audiophiles
  9. Rodney_gold

    Loss of detail at low volume - hardware or hearing?

    You only need the plugin to set the minidsp stuff up , once you finished  you disconnect the puter afterwards so you would only need a bloze or mac for that..afterwards its a stand alone device They have 4 slots for various presets and you can teach the unit to respond to a remote to select...
  10. Rodney_gold

    Loss of detail at low volume - hardware or hearing?

    The best option for you is to then implement DSP via hardware ,digital in and digital out for the least damage ..out to feed your dac via spdif MiniDSP offer a unit thats suitable , the nanodigi 2x8b https://www.minidsp.com/products/minidsp-in-a-box/nanodigi-2x8-b $170 You will need one of...
  11. Rodney_gold

    Loss of detail at low volume - hardware or hearing?

    Normally dsp is included in your music player software What are you using? Roon, jriver  and foobar all have parametric eq included Roon = $110 a year J river $59 once off foobar = free
  12. Rodney_gold

    Loss of detail at low volume - hardware or hearing?

    Do yourself a favour....implement some sort of digital equalisation and you can fix this and fix a lot of other stuff beside You could implement a curve that compensates .. used to be called a "loudness" button on old gear but a digital implementation is much more accurate and better than old...
  13. Rodney_gold

    Loss of detail at low volume - hardware or hearing?

    Google fletcher munson curve ..its your hearing
  14. Rodney_gold

    Super expensive cables

    Ah yes , the age old debate, long and thin vs short and thick....
  15. Rodney_gold

    Cause of static sound

    Have a look at your cabling , unplug and replug them ... pay particular attention to any digital cable.. a static type sound could be caused by a dac losing lock on the signal...
  16. Rodney_gold

    Super expensive cables

    Kimber d60 SPDIF Apogee Wyde eye AES/EBU 1" wide mundorf pure silver ribbon as speaker cables All bought used at a fraction of original cost
  17. Rodney_gold

    Super expensive cables

    Never buy cables new and never pay more than 25% of their retail value if used..let some other mug take the hit
  18. Rodney_gold

    Super expensive cables

    My cable spend is 0.3% of my system cost My room spend/rebuild /treatment was 12% DSP room correction is about 8% Racks and component  isolation .. nil
  19. Rodney_gold

    Chain advice

    What playback program are you using and does it have DSP equalisation? You may be able to inject warmth without paying a cent
  20. Rodney_gold

    Chain advice

    Schiit Loki http://www.schiit.com/products/loki
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