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Location: Notts
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I'm Geoff.
Black Friday deal on J River Media Centre
Just bought this for $30 using voucher code:
runturkeyrun
https://www.jriver.com/index.html
Was considering buying a license for Audivarna but put off by their insane pricing model. Seems that they think they can emulate Roon.
Quite impressed by the J River package so far although it is taking a while to index my (admittedly large) flac library.
Currently streaming some cool jazz from their radio stream.
I think the offer is valid for 7 days.
Last edited by Sherwood; 19-11-2021 at 07:13.
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I'm Gary.
Cheers!
JRiver is great.
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
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Location: Notts
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I'm Geoff.
Price is pretty good with this offer. Worked out at less than £23 with the BF discount!Originally Posted by Gazjam
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I'm Adam.
Thanks for this
I have just gone ahead and bought it.
My Dad waxes lyrical about Jriver and it is time that I found it if it really is good, ha ha!
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Location: Notts
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I'm Geoff.
Since installing it this morning I have been playing around with Gizmo, a free Android app that allows me to remotely access J River music library on my PC. Works very well!
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Location: Notts
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I'm Geoff.
I am very impressed by the Media Centre package. I had not appreciated all the built-in features. I have made extensive use of the cover art and file info searching to clean up my music library. I have also been able to remove a lot of duplicate files.
Once the library has been indexed I find it very fast to display music by artists and albums. I would say the best £23 purchase in a long time. Playback is instantaneous.
From what I recall from using an earlier version of Audivarna, I prefer J River.
BTW I don't work for J River ... honest!
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I'm Steve.
I might just give it a go as I have just repurposed an 8 year old laptop to audio streaming by swapping to an SSD.
Steve.
Kit I have:
CD player, TTs, Phono stages, Pre amps, Power amps, Integrated amps, DACs, Streamers, Speakers and a bunch of cables.
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Location: Notts
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I'm Geoff.
I think the offer ends soon
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jriver is a good bit of software.. think im up to 28 now. alas its only weakness is not having integration of streaming services.
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Location: Notts
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I'm Geoff.
True, though it does have a streaming facility in terms of web radio.
I think its main strength is as a library manager and playback system for a locally stored media library.
At £23 quid (current deal) it blows away its main rival Audirvana which has recently gone for a crazy pricing model.
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