As a side, with quite the team effort, we did eventually get them sounding ok. Well, at one point the music flipped over to the laptop speakers and one of the guys in the back yells "hey, that sounds better." The whole room busted up laughing. We moved them in, out, angled, we tried everything. He had tried for weeks, and these $70k tin cans sounded like crap (company is now out of business I think). One time a group of us were trying to help a friend setup his new speakers. We of course check everything 100 times, only to realize the version of Amara is not compatible with the OS upgrade on his Mac he just did.
I can't tell you the number of times I'm with a friend or client and he can't figure out why the music comes out of the laptop speakers instead of the DAC. Even the other PC/Mac software alternatives are a PITA. JRiver has become bloatware because they try to implement every Tom, Dick and Harry's request for features. Lumin, Aurender, even the new Auralic stack which was quite impressive at Munich, are all far better sounding and enjoyable to use alternatives. The last thing I want to do is come home and "play computer" instead of playing music.Īnd someone pimping out a PC and calling it a fancy name is just an expensive headache instead of just a headache.
My background is IT, software implementation, data migration, etc. Like I've said, I get a headache reading CAF. I could not go back to all that fiddling around just to get my music playing. I am sorry but it all seemed a nightmare. I felt so relieved to know that it was only temporary and that I would be going back to my music player which would wake up and play just by turning on my ipad. What it reminded me though was all the hackling and effort to make it play through the V90 DAC which for no apparent reason would not play. The V90 was quite good for $300, but of course it was missing the transparent strings, 3D imaging, and that analogue sound of the D1.
Yesterday I decided to compare my old computer setup with my D1. It took me a while to configure my NAS, but that was it. I was also getting tired of strange things happening: It would not play because I had two Media Players running at the same time, pops and clicks, my DAC did not always be the selected converter, cover art disappearing, Worrying about which is better WASAPI etc, which volume mode is better, etc etc, installing Fidelizer and whether to use "audiophile or purist" mode, my MF V90 DAC sometimes not connecting for no reason, to buffer or not to buffer, play from memory or not, Which connection is better- USB optical or coaxial, which USB cable to buy ETC, ETC. When I decided to buy my D1 one of the reasons was so that I didn't have to log my laptop around. In his introduction he talks about trying to configure his computer with Media Center, and his frustrations in doing so. Before buying my D1 and had read this review by Maurice Jeffries.
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