[Krutsch]

Made some changes to my office head-fi rig, to clean-up some desk space and simplify things.

Anyway, I changed over to an old NuForce Icon HDP + LPS-1 (NuForce's linear power supply) using the headphone out at 100/120 volume into the RCA analog inputs on the head amp.

Curiously, I found myself experiencing some audio fatigue with this playback chain (listening with HD-660S 'phones, which I think are wonderful all-arounders).

Then I remember my initial listening impressions with classical strings playback - same thing with my Shure SE535LTD IEMs. So, I enabled the "Vinyl Processor":

"Give every track the sound of vinyl with Vinyl Processor"

"Get lost again in the richness of the melodies and dynamics of your favorite albums by giving back the character of vinyl to your digital tracks. Subtle reproduction of low-frequency tone-arm resonance, surface and scratch noise, and resonance on the vinyl deliver an authentic listening experience."

... I don't know about all of that, but I will say this: audio fatigue is gone with that setting enabled. I wonder what is really happening in my case.

 

[gerelmx1986]

I use Roon extensively and with Sonos speakers sprinkled throughout my house.

Roon will downsample and dither your high-res content as needed to play flawlessly on Sonos. I can attest that this both works well and sounds good.

Thanks mate, did a research. Seems like either plex media server or a bitorrent for roon with a crack should do the trick

 

[Krutsch]

Thanks mate, did a research. Seems like either plex media server or a bitorrent for roon with a crack should do the trick

I don't think you will find such a thing, as Roon requires an active connection to their back-end for metadata updates.

But even if such a thing exists, don't be an a$$hole by stealing the extensive work the Roon team does in support of their product.

 

[gerelmx1986]

I don't think you will find such a thing, as Roon requires an active connection to their back-end for metadata updates.

But even if such a thing exists, don't be an a$$hole by stealing the extensive work the Roon team does in support of their product.

I can't afford the stupid American way of life pay to stream or use every month. That's one point that I think many folks are so dumb, spending money on streaming when you can pay only once for a flac digital download

For metadata updates who cares? I've tagged my library with utmost attention and have all my files read-only.

Ah and they have no headquarter, how cool, they're not a company then they cannot be sued, nothing they can evade tax and so on with so easy as no having an address.

 

[gerelmx1986]

Did a quick search, there's no room free, seems.like plex is the only way,

 

[Krutsch]

I can't afford the stupid American way of life pay to stream or use every month. That's one point that I think many folks are so dumb, spending money on streaming when you can pay only once for a flac digital download
...

Yeah... but that's not what you asked about, with respect to Roon.

You asked about transcoding/down-sampling/dithering for compatibility with Sonos speakers.

 

[gerelmx1986]

Double post

 

[gerelmx1986]

I spoke with my husband. He doesn't want to turn the PC on in order to just play music (sight... german's are like that so money saving) that having the pc on for play to the sonos, downsampling my Hi-res crap wasted electricity.

He told me a NAS compatible with Alexa or of I can say "alexa.play yo-yo ma to Wohnzimmer" it will play on the sonos directly from the NAS without pc. He told me kein roon thing pay 9.99 a month to use american stuff... and when I said plex? He said you don't listen or? Are you immer daydreaming like an autistic I said NO PC ON

 

[WilcoRoger]

Time to upgrade the husband to a newer version?

 

[gerelmx1986]

I am still debating whether to sell my A55 or not, has not gotten any use since December

 

[Facta]

FM stations can be changed using side buttons?

 

[QsTree]

No, FM stations can't be changed by using side buttons.

 

[Facta]

I spoke with my husband. He doesn't want to turn the PC on in order to just play music (sight... german's are like that so money saving) that having the pc on for play to the sonos, downsampling my Hi-res crap wasted electricity.

He told me a NAS compatible with Alexa or of I can say "alexa.play yo-yo ma to Wohnzimmer" it will play on the sonos directly from the NAS without pc. He told me kein roon thing pay 9.99 a month to use american stuff... and when I said plex? He said you don't listen or? Are you immer daydreaming like an autistic I said NO PC ON

Wish somebody like you could do an XKCD or AbstruseGoose kind of comic for audiophiles. You are good.

 

[Facta]

No, FM stations can't be changed by using side buttons.

Thank you. Very helpful. Saved some money.
Darn!!

 

[vaho83]

Hi guys. I have an NW A55 series player and I have a question. Is this player compatible with hybrid headphones (power and impedance) ? I want to buy headphones with these parameters:

Sensitivity 108dB SPL/mW Frequency range 20Hz-20KHz Impedance(IKHz) 8.6-9.5 Driver 1HI+ 1MID+1DD Noise isolation 26dB