Cool system,
never seen anyone having a Sooloos before, very cool.
Can't fault Roon, big fan here.
Cool system,
never seen anyone having a Sooloos before, very cool.
Can't fault Roon, big fan here.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
Sorry Adrian no vinyl costs enough as it is. Find it amazing that i can have so much music with roon/tidal all for the sake of £10 a month (student discount) that i would never buy on vinyl if i could get it on vinyl in first place. Especially in these days of self isolation or in my terms lambing love the fact i can settle down on sofa with a book and let the music play me random artists ive not heard before.
As for the Sooloos designed by the guys behind roon i believe and shows in its design, it also rips cds very well. Has the equivalent to roon radio in swim which swims your collection for similar. Has integration with tidal and just sounds so much better than computer via usb into dac, but and there is always a but it has limited storage of 500gb so not that much room to fill.I do like the interface on it though.
Lovely system, but you need to tackle the cabling Pete
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Location: South Yorkshire
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I'm Andre.
o/p was clearly having a laugh when he said humble! I was expecting some cheap nothing of a PC system
As for calling it a humble system it plays very humbly and just couldn't think of a better thread title
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I'm Andre.
I can not humble