1. Family ( or spouse ) you have own time with the hifi listening to music no one will hear :)
2. Living room can be unsuitable for proper listening , ( usually a function of 1 due to interior design demands.... ) 3. A really dedicated listening area . Hey nothing wrong with multiple listening a spots I have 4 of them :) , for example even if my proper hifi reaches the loggia/balcony it is better with speakers close by and a dedicated bedroom system etc . 4 it's not easy to combine home theatre with hifi it gets quite messy fast and numerous strange compromises arise . I've even done with older speakers and my old hifi . It never worked any good for the movies proper timbre match between speakers is critical . The vintage system can not be properly integrated into the home theatre . On topic . If you want a DAC down in the basement , make sure it's post >year 2000 design by some good margin not a vintage design unless you like the cool factor :) but performance did increase dramatically during the 90's nowadays my iPhone 6 has better analog out performance than my first Meridian DAC . CD have you not yet ripped all your CD's to a lossles format ( flac ) and use LMS and your squeezeboxes ? Do that . A streaming device is the ultimate transport if you done bitperfect rips ( you do that with dB power amp or eac or similar with accurate rip dB functionality ) you are guaranteed that every thing on the cd is streamed every time completely consistent . A mechanical transport does not do that for you . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104973 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
