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Ash
Senior Member Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Location: Dorset Status: Offline Points: 4334 |
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Welcome. Sincere waffling like this is good. |
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Drewan77
Senior Member Joined: 25 May 2013 Location: Chester,England Status: Offline Points: 1544 |
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Another welcome Peter, from me
I listen to and enjoy all music formats and have found that the Majestic works wonders with digital sources, producing a smooth analogue-like sound unlike any other DAC I have owned or heard previously. Inputs are so versatile that you can use coax, optical or usb digital and also run an analogue turntable through via RCA analogue. It's well worth borrowing one on the loan scheme |
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BackinBlack
Senior Member Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Hinton, N'hants Status: Offline Points: 2020 |
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Just listen, if it sounds good to you, enjoy it.
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morris_minor
Moderator Group Joined: 27 Mar 2012 Location: Surrey Status: Offline Points: 6015 |
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Another welcome from me, Peter . . .
If you have a hard drive full of vinyl rips you could do a lot worse than connect it to a little Raspberry Pi mini-computer. A few of us use it for streaming, but you can plug in a USB drive too. The big advantage of trying this is its cost - or lack of it! "Cheap-as-chips" comes to mind! |
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Bob
Majestic DAC/pre-amp Accession MC/Enigma, Accession MM, Reflex M, Elevator EXP, Era Gold V Solo ULDE, Novo, Lautus USB and digital, Libran balanced, CuSat50 2 x Proprius + Spatia/Spatia Links |
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msphil
Senior Member Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Location: Derbyshire UK Status: Offline Points: 386 |
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I can certainly recommend the Majestic for digital sources. It is superb! It produces a valve like, analogue sound with bags of detail and musicality. I was so impressed I bought two. One for the bedroom (for use with Grado PS 1000 headphones and the Solo ULDE) and one for the lounge with a Squeezebox touch streaming music to the Majestic from an Apple Mac, a pair of Proprius monobloc amplifiers and a pair of PMC Touch 8 speakers. Both systems, especially the one in the lounge, sound fantastic. With both systems I use GSP interconnects and speaker cables. The local PMC speaker representative has told me that my system sounds better than the demonstration rig that they use for hi-fi shows (costing in excess of £15,000! It's certainly the best hi-fi system I have heard. If you have any doubts about what I'm saying try borrowing a Majestic (and other items) from the loans scheme. |
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Fatmangolf
Moderator Group Joined: 23 Dec 2009 Location: Middlesbrough Status: Online Points: 8960 |
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Welcome aboard Peter. You've joined lots of enthusiastic and helpful music lovers as you'll know already.
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Jon
Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
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Art frames
New Member Joined: 21 Dec 2014 Location: Northants Status: Offline Points: 6 |
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Thank you. lots of ideas, which seem to point to retrying my squeezebox but with a majestic dac. I also have an old mac mini to rig up. I have put lots of music on a portable hard drive and can stream via apple TV (but that is mostly for my sons to watch YouTube)
I didn't try the touch through a dac. As I didn't have one at the time. I also didn't have ethernet to the hifi (I fixed that recently too). So maybe a retry of streaming would be in order. I do have a nice dac now, not the majestic. Graham wasn't making one at the time I checked. I read through a huge discussion before he did (admittedly a while ago) whilst I was trying to make the squeezebox (since gifted to my son) work nicely. That discussion I presume became the first dac. Things move on very quickly.
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