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I think I did, in a round about way, in the 2nd post. Not sure I've heard the finest tube amps, but I've owned and heard several. I miss tubes from a visual point of view. Always fun to bask in the glow while listening in the dark. I don't miss hours of my life spent obsessing over what if there is just one more tube I've not tried and it is the magic one that parts the heavens. I fully realize that is my personality, not the fault of the amps/tubes. IMHO, @richieb is wise beyond his years (which are numerous) with all things amps. We joined the forum about the same time. He has probably had 5X the number of amps I have. Follow him down the amp trail and you probably can't go wrong. If you end up lost in the woods it will have been a fun trip.

I don't either but from what I've gathered reading on the roon forms there are a handful of DACs with multiple chips on them specifically designed for 5.1. with a little work you can make it happen. My take on it is there is nothing like pointing roon at your oppo and it just working. You need a specifically designed outboard DAC. I'm mildly interested in it but don't have enough multi-channel files to really pursue it. I know lots of people like it but to me multichannel music especially something like dark side of the Moon that wasn't meant to be that way feels gimmicky. Kind of neat at first but the novelty wears off quickly.

I have had the Venus II, Gaia combo for a couple of months. Not a huge difference over the Venus II alone.... I've written about it elsewhere on the forum. I was curious about the clock sync. So contemplated a T 2 when I found a local T+. Today is the day to switch the Gaia over to the T+.

Bi-amped mains and center. No passive XOs via xilica 8080. Carver TFM-25 x 3 at the bottom for 4 x Heresies surround L/R and surround back L/R. You can see 1 of the ceiling mounted Heresy peeking out with dual Crowns at the top of the rack to the right. Getting the Heresies onto the ceiling by myself was no small task.

If you pay the shipping both ways you will be broke. The Terminator + is a beast. I was worried it might not fit in my rack it is so wide/deep and heavy. Come out for a listen... might be cheaper.😁 Makes the J2 seem almost reasonable in size. I had to move almost every slot to get the silvers and blacks together

Got these "plus" what they connect to. Plus in quotes should be a clue

Yea, hard to believe not gone yet at $6,800🙄

Just a friendly PSA. Depending on the the Theme and browser the forum does not do well with copy/paste. First shot below is what your add looks like to me. I'm smart enough to know when I see something that looks like yours there is probably more than meets the eye. If I drag my cursor to highlight the text you see what I see in the 2nd shot below. I notice a lot of @Travis In Austin messages are like this. Probably adds confusion to readers that are less tech-savvy when it comes to moderation posts/arguments

Why, he is only asking 3K. The Make an offer button is to offer less Klipschhorn corner speaker pair If you know about speakers, you know this is the best It’s a pair of corner speakers one squawker needs to be repaired but the other one works perfectly New goes from $16500 you can google it Asking price for both $3000 obo

I'm not a TrueNAS user but I don't think that should matter. I use PLEX for locally stored movies and Roon for locally stored music. Big picture wise, you should have all your media on the same network. The various "players" need to be on same network too. Configure each player to find the desired media in it's location. If you are only talking music files you should not need to do anything differently between the two. You for sure don't need two copies for everything if that is what you are asking.

@Rudy81 and @artto if you haven't stumbled upon this yet, go to home screen, scroll down to discover. Now sit back and waste a few hours. If you have a large library locally the music you've collected over your lifetime this is a great way to ReDiscover it. Everytime you go back it will be different. You will see different size tiles with things like released this month for various years, Featured artists featured performers, etc.

I bought mine new...ouch. About a year or two later HDMI was the thing. 😐

I thought I was the only one who still had a Sunfire TGIV.😀

Rpi 4 has better USB support. Thousands of people running Ropieee or Roon Bridge successfully with zero issues. Myself included

For our discussion Hub = Switch. It just lets you have more cables connected. Also for this discussion you are probably fine with the hub your currently have. The more you ask of Roon the better your network needs to be. BTW, Router is what gets you to the Internet. Router with Ports on it is basically a router + hub/switch. They can be separate, but for consumer stuff from cable company they typically have 4. So yes if it is easy and you don't need the work PC or printer while testing, just hook Roon Core (your laptop running Roon core correct?) and NAD to your hub both with their own cat-5 cable. Core and Endpoint (NAD) will talk to each other. Use Phone/Tablet via WiFi or PC app on laptop to enable the NAD. Gear = enabled in my post above. Blue Enable button means it is not yet enabled. Until you enable an endpoint you can use it. Just to put a fine point on it Core and NAD are not connected to each other. They are connected to the network. Once that is done, check your signal path and report back if all purple or some different colors. You can click on each colored dot to see more about it. I would expect to see only three dots and all purple if all goes well. Screen shots will help. Delete of photos and make sure you upload the resized photo....apologies if that sounds too basic. But worth stating the obvious sometimes. If you have a phone/tablet and do a screen shot of the signal path it should be in the KBs not MBs. HTH, -Rich

Roon core does not need to be connected to M32 via HDMI. Put the Roon core (PC) on your networks (wired cat 5 at first), same for M32. Roon will find all your endpoints. Anything you might have like Sonos, Apple Air Play, your NAD. The more you can wire with Cat-5 and not use WiFi the better at first. This will give you the best chance at things just working and not frustrating you by connections issues. Enterprise level switches like DLink and Cisco are also desirable over consumer devices or the one that you get for free with your cable company. You do not need any "audiophile" switches or cables. Save that for a snake oil debate thread. Simplest would be Roon core on computer and NAD on the same switch both with Cat-5. Phone/Tablet via Wifi is perfectly fine. Go to Settings, Audio, find your NAD device. See example below like my NAD T758. On your remote (phone/tablet) running Roon Control, select the NAD. Play something and look at the signal path. I can't remember but I think the NAD will show up as a RAAT device (Roon Advanced Audio Device). Enjoy.

Absolutely agree. Like this...actually from my Lyngdorf not Roon, but the same sort of idea. Or this.... Not to mention Roon's EQ/DSP/Etc. But nothing really sound what like he is describing.

Ha, you win the concise award. It took me 5 paragraphs to basically ask the same question...what is his signal path for all. 👍

@artto Glad you got it up and running and are finding what works best for you...in the end that is all that matters. Your ears and your room and all that jazz. Both the Roon crowd and Roon developer are pretty over the top on SQ. Would be curious to see what @Thaddeus Smith thinks as he is a long time Roon user as well as HQ player. I find it hard to believe Roon could actually color the sound that much...but like I said your room your ears and you hear what you hear. At least you tired. I can't help but think there is some expectation bias or confirmation bias at play. Even that does not really matter if it were the case...you like what you like. If a sugar pill makes your headache go away it still worked. You might want to read this about Tidal. I have no dog in the Tidal, MQA, HighRez thing. The take away I got from reading the entire thread is that between a $3,000 dollar streamer and $600 there is no difference when it comes to Tidal. Yes I know money does not always = better sound. But plenty of Lumin love the world around would suggest otherwise. @Shakeydealincluded. I gather form reading between the lines that local FLAC files and CDs will sound better than Tidal on the same equipment. Interesting that you find Tidal your preference. I've got a gazillion local High-Rez, Standard rez, LPs, etc. There is no clear winner. IMO, it is all what version you have. Version = mastering. I've got standard rez Bluenote RVG CDs that sound better then hight rez (high dollar) equivalent, and some where the vinyl sounds better....pre RVG remastering. I've got 200g Classic Record reissues of Led Zeppelin LPs (argued to be the best) that I cannot tell the difference between the 2014 CD remasters. https://community.roonlabs.com/t/blind-test-3000-lumin-d2-with-sbooster-sounds-the-same-as-a-600-bluesound-node/187123/98 I'd really be curious to know about Clapton experiment. Was Roon a Tidal MQA (they give you those by default if they have one) version and your PC/Jriver a local FLAC file rip from CD? Maybe I'm slow at reading but could not really tell when you (paraphrasing) say Roon sounded worst what exactly the playback files were and if they were all the same. My 121,000 local files are all rips form CDs. I don't do any streaming. CD used as transport only to a quality DAC FLAC files ripped form the same CD played through same DAC - not using Roon and CD rips played via Roon as long as I don't have DSP applied all sound virtually identical. So close to the same that I can't walk into the room not knowing and pick out one form the other. I know my system is not resolving enough and my ears are old. That is always one side of the argument. I'm not looking to argue or defend Roon. Just really curious about your results. I can't help but feel it is something in the set up or differences that are yet to be discovered.

Steve Hoffman Forums and Google are your friend. Type "Best sounding XXX album/cd/Lp" and the first hit will almost always be at this URL https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/ You have to wade through some people's opinions but you can typically separate the chaff from the wheat. As for a site that you type in a title and it spits out a one line result, I don't know of any.

Raspberry Pi 4 + HiFiBerry DAC Will for sure get you going along with Volumio. Lots of love for the various Bluesound Nodes. $500 is really not that much. Guess you will have to decide what having millions of songs at your fingertips is worth. Have you looked at Sonos? They have a wonderful app that is super easy to use. But you have to "buy" into the Sonos ecosystem which is not cheap. There are tons of Sonos Connects and Amps on ebay cheap, very cheap. You should read up on Gen1 and Gen2 systems. Connect and Amp from Sonos lets you add your own speakers to their system. They support Tidal.

Are you at all handy...like, can you snap Legos together? If so I'd suggest a PicanPi streamer and Volumio. First Up - Volumio https://volumio.com/en/get-started/ IT ONLY TAKES 10 MINUTES FOR GREAT SOUND Install Volumio on microcomputers such as Raspberry Pi or ASUS Tinkerboard, and control it directly on your phone, computer or tablet. As for the PecanPi they sound awesome with dual Burr Brown DACs and a linear power supply...just slightly out of your budget. So for about 1/2 the price you can build your own Right out of the box ready Networked music player with DAC and headphone amp Ultra-high fidelity, plug-and-play, ready-to-go, high-resolution music streamer with built-in DAC and headphone amplifier. Control music wirelessly using your phone, tablet, or computer. Ready to play in minutes https://orchardaudio.com/pecanpi-streamer-1 Or roll your own...same DAC you just have to assemble the parts https://orchardaudio.com/shop/ols/products/pcnp-dac @orchardaudio is a member here I'm sure he would be happy to advise via the Contact Us link from his site. Read up on those and see if it does not make more sense.

SiriusXM. I can't explain why, but I still like having somebody pick the music for me when I am driving. Especially on long trips. Can't wait to see what is next. I was skeptical when I first had a free year with SiriusXM but have grown to really like the programming. Though I was never a huge Tom Petty fan the Tom Petty station has a good bunch of interesting guest DJs and really cool stories about music and the business. On a drive between Michigan and Maryland I caught a 1 hour show hosted by Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) I didn't want it to end, it was just fascinating. Seemed to last 15 minutes and I actually enjoyed the drive that day.