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I read a lot about both when the price gap was larger (and both prices higher), chose the 906, never regretted it.

1. It sounds as though you have a preamp or amplifier with a volume control. So does the RME DAC. You can have one or the other do most of the attenuation, so compare and decide whether it makes a difference. 2. The RME has a five-band parametric equalizer. You can really clamp down on a...

See the section "Fixed Output Level – Lock Volume" in the user manual, which details the four reference levels realized in the analog domain.

Did you try the different filters in the Emotiva XDA-3, including Brickwall? I like my RME ADI FS-2. Even better, though, when I put a tube preamp between the DAC and the amplifier. Typical, I gather, is the Alstine Transcendence 10 RB. It does not produce a retro "warm" sound, just more...

I have the RME ADI FS-2, and it is an excellent box. Get the user manual, which has a good deal of technical information to satisfy your measurement-oriented standards of quality. And you can see whether its output parameters are a good pair with the input parameters of the next box in the...

According to a review, the C71KW box is from AT&T and works with its TV offering (and was previously offered with Direct TV). The digital output is optical audio. The review is at https://blog.solidsignal.com/reviews/solid-signals-hands-on-review-att-tv-c71kw/ Optical audio should be better...

Do you have a Windows PC? Hang the HDD on it. Use nearly-free Minimserver program to stream files off the HDD to your home network. Receive files with a Denon LinkHS2 or comparable Wiim or Audioengine B-Fi or other inexpensive boxes. Use BubbleUPnP app on Android to select file or stream and...

Prestomusic.com has a huge catalog of classical and jazz files, in .flac or .mp3 as you choose. Licensed and legal.

Fairly large for bookshelf speakers: Revival Atalante 3. Full and accurate sound.

Here is a comparison of Spendor's specs between the A1 and the A1.2.

I had Focal Aria 906's. Now I have Revival Atalante 3's, and they are terrific. Much more you-are-there than the Focals; accurate but not confined to being delicate.

KFJC is an Internet radio station (and also a conventional FM station). It has a Web link to a stream. There are several ways to listen to the stream through your Internet connection. Most Internet radio stations, including KFJC, have a conventional Web page. The page(s) describe the station...

Yeah, the RME also has bass, treble, and loudness controls, but you better not use them, cuz you might damage your speakers ... or trigger a fire in the battery of your electric car.

Minimserver/Minimstreamer can run ffmpeg commands inline while sending out the stream.

Depending on how one finds particular solutions easy or difficult to set up and use, you can go either way. If you have both a software solution (Minimserver in my case) and the RME DAC (or other), you can use one of them to compensate for your speakers while you vary the other depending on the...

Adding to why you might want an RME ADI FS 2, even at about twice the price: You can create, store, and bring up nine PEQ presets. Some files in my digital library were engineered in the modern manner of too much emphasis on the bass, some sound like almost direct vinyl captures, some are just...

Since the DLNA server software Minimserver offers extensive tag choices, and since "If the server, player and control point are all built according to the UPnP/DLNA standards, they work together even though they may be produced by different companies" (minimserver documentation), this statement...

We who inflate ourselves as serious listeners depend on our "serious" audio equipment. We never expect good audio from a home theater box, nor when we got to an old-fashioned movie theater. ;)

So that LG monitor has a terrible Toslink output, while its USB output is fine. And then we learn that Sony TV Toslink outputs sound terrible. Don't blame Toslink in general. I have a device (Denon LinkHS2) that receives digital audio over wifi and sends it out via coax or Toslink. Coax picks...

The function of the Wiim device is to receive digital audio from a source that sends the file or stream onto your home wifi network. The Wiim either converts the digital audio to analog if it has a DAC built in, or it passes the digital stream to a DAC. Then into your audio system. You don't...