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In Reply to: RE: "We have different priorities" - We Certainly Do posted by cawson@onetel.com on April 09, 2025 at 11:08:14

My priority is ultimate excitement-factor when listening to music and that means exceptional speakers.
Agree entirely. More than half of system investment.
I try to minimize clutter in the family room where the HT lives. Processor and Roku live on floating shelf while power amp and BR player are found in hidden closet behind pictures near right speaker. Cables go through floor and back wall. Power outlet for stats on floor behind each. Surrounds mounted on wall and kitchen column with cables similarly hidden.
My digital library of audio and video alike lives in a toaster sized NAS.
My garage is used to house my car when not in use, and my tools and other non-audio junk that I wouldn't want in the house,
Same here. I enjoy listening to music while there. :)

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RE: Sorry to hear that - cawson@onetel.com 02:54:00 04/10/25 (3)
"More than half of system investment."

Mine is more like 70% and that is appropriate in these days of tiny circuit boards and chips that actually cost far less than the cases they are installed into - or even the cables needed to connect these boxes.

As long as you are happy with your collection of single-use boxes and snake-pit of cables, and I am happy with my single box (and hence very costly speakers), we should both be very content.
- I'm very pleased - E-Stat 09:10:10 04/10/25 (2)
  with the musical transparency of the main system. Better always exists (say U990s driven by Siegfried IIs ) but it satisfies my listening priorities.
  
  And enjoy having met Dr. West and Luke Manley to discuss the perspectives behind the wonderful handbuilt products I've enjoyed for twenty years. :)
  - I got lost - dbphd 10:03:48 04/10/25 (1)
    What about Ethernet? The Roon Nucleus streamer connects to the KEF LS60 and Ayre QX-5/20 DAC via Ethernet. Am I missing something?
    - Ethernet is upstream part of signal chain - E-Stat 10:12:13 04/10/25 (0)
      Yours is a "streaming DAC" so cabling between those otherwise separate parts is internal.
      
      Similarly, my media server is connected to Sonore endpoint via ethernet but requires short USB cable to connect to DAC.

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