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Yes I did discover that one when i was hunting for stores back in the late 80's, I got Annihilator -Alice in Hell and White Lion - Big Game from there.

Can’t find anywhere in Australia that sells it though.

I had an exact opposite experience. Fleetwood Mac Rumours in 5.1 blew me away. took me a long time to go back to 2 channel listening.

The reason sold all my 2 channel integrated amplifiers and dedicated 2 channel streamers was the fact that i wanted to get back to what gave me that first buzz in regards to music and that was sitting back watching a music concert on a projector screen in 5.1 sound. Can't beat it. So yes HT is a vital part of music playback and can give you a more complete experience. Every time i listen to 2 channel music in a dark room i fall asleep.

The lady wore black, classic

Simple Minds Live Acoustic, brilliant stuff a new bluray reference.

This is what I need. https://allo.com/sparky/usbridge.html

Yeah I had one of there dacs before, it was great. Do they have a digital only board?

No I just used Kodi as it was pre installed, I use Kodi with HTPC USB out for music and sounds fantastic so this ii why i thought this would be a good comparison.

Just did a test with RPi 2 usb out into Klein DAC and it was bloody terrible, could even hear little crackles, sounded like vinyl. Looks like I'll need a HiFiBerry digi plus

Raspberry Pi 3 with DAC hat attached, play from USB drive or NAS. It's so simple to set up even a simpleton like me (as some here have called my via PM) can do it.

Dream Theatre metropolis pt 2. An album I very familiar with and I know it’s cliche but with this new Klein 2 dac I’m hearing some pretty cool touches that I haven’t or think I haven’t heard before .

Helloween can be a bit hit and miss they have made a few silly ones, I like time of the oath and master of the rings.

Kodi will run off a SDHC card, would also be the easiest for family to use.

Were these tests done with human ears?