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I need to try home assistant! Thanks for the reminder.

I have plexamp and roon, both lifetime subs. I think Plex was around $80 in one of their sales about 4+ years ago. I used roon for six months starting in 2017 and in 2018 I purchased the lifetime sub. Its been excellent, probably my best hifi purchase ever, more than my RME DAC (also excellent)...

Thank you for the replies, it is much appreciated. I tell myself something close to this, that I won't hear a difference but I then I end up wondering regardless... I have tried this via roon of course (quick a/b'ing rather than the way Amir has described elsewhere on the forum), but I would...

I subscribe to Qobuz, and I have been listening to the new Cure album (streamed on Roon/Qobuz using a M66 NAD pre-amp (Dirac applied), a NAD M23 power amp with Kef Reference one speakers), Songs of a Lost World (excellent by the way). On Qobuz the album is available at 96kHz sample rate, and 24...

I would always demo if you can, in your own home ideally. Dirac has been fine for me, but you might want to try it and all the other various features prior to buying.

This all seems a shame. My M66 + M23 has been working great for me, sorry others are not having the same experience. I had Dirac (+mic) set-up on my laptop and all worked fine - I was wondering about repeating with my umik mic. The remote has been great for my use case, I have not noticed any...

I am still enjoying my M66, here is a link to my recent preamp trevails! My last post gives my thoughts.

A bit of an update! I sold my Topping pre90, and D90, and returned my holo audio Cyan 2 for a refund. Along with a bit of savings I managed to get a NAD M66 pre-amp also with a bit of a discount. I still think its very expensive but it does seem very good. The remote is excellent. It plays...

Thanks, i missed this!

I tend to use my M66 with Roon, has anyone found a way to use the VU metres when using roon?

Sorry, forgot to reply to this, I am not sure I have the skills!

Thank you, I will look into this!

Yes, my main source, or the one used most regularly is the raspberry pi 4 streamer, with ropieee into the DAC via USB. The second source is the CD player, into the DAC via optical. The DAC then goes into the pre-amp via xlr.

I am not sure what you mean? My Cambridge Audio CXC is a transport only. I think I had dismissed this very quickly back when amir reviewed it. I will do a bit of reading, thanks for the recommendation! Understood! I might go this rout at some point in the future, not right now though. That...

Thank you, yes I have wondered about a passive, but I don't have any experience myself, and when looking I could only find subjective stuff. I looked at Khozmo over the last few weeks, but again, I think I would need to import. Ideally I would want something with UK warranty.

Thank you for the replies! Agreed, not about sound quality per se, more about features I think, but ideally would not want a reduction in sound quality. Thanks, the Denfrips looks a nice unit, but not sure I can view easily in the UK. The M66 is interesting, but looking at what I would need, I...

I have been on the look out for a pre-amp for my main system to partner with my NAD M23 power amp, I would be using with two sources, Cambridge Audio CD player and a Holo Cyan 2 DAC. Currently I am using a Topping pre90, which is good, but it was only supposed to be a temporary arrangement, and...

I have a CXN100 and I have had a few emails back and forth with Cambridge Audio support asking questions, I asked about this and got the answer "The CXN100 doesn't upsample any incoming files, so it will output whatever sample rate and signal that is sent to it". I have not had chance to check...

Thank made me smile!

Just a quick update in terms of my pre-amp question, leaving the pre90 in the chain seems to work quite well, I am still tweaking volume levels to get it right. Currently the Pre90 is at -15db, and then the Cambridge Audio sits around 70% volume overall and this gives you day to day levels. I...