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| Re: streaming recommendations for newbie I’ve been using a bluesound node 2i with a PD Creative power supply. I outboard to a Schitt Gungnir Dac. I love the sound I get and it’s been all on a beer budget compared to how much can be spent on a digital setup. I use Tidal and Qobuz and hav... | |
| It's All I Can Do - Better than I remember “I’m always searching for good music that is well recorded and sometimes looking back to old familiar songs you haven’t listened to in a long time is a good way to find them.” Yes, since starting down this road of putting together a better sound... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. “Stop, In The Name Of Love” - The Supremes ”Hey Jude” - The Beatles “God Only Knows” - BB ”Piece of My Heart” - Janis Joplin ”White Rabbit” - Jefferson Airplane ”I Wish It Would Rain” - The Temptations ”People Get Ready” - The Impressions ... | |
| Rant: PSA to builders, housewives, and general complaint @dtximages : “Speaking of.... are you amazed at how many men come into your home and don't comment or even look twice at the system you're so proud of?” You nailed it. 99% of the men who visit ignore the system, which is flanked by tall Mag... | |
| Rant: PSA to builders, housewives, and general complaint I rebuilt my home about 12 years ago and added a wood-burning fireplace before I got into hi-fi. Luckily, I placed it in the corner of the room (large rectangle family/kitchen plan). What I had planned in a 12’ space on the short front wall (9’cei... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It @kota1 Thank you, Kota, for the nice words regarding my system. Yes, the walls. They are due for treatment next. You don’t see it in the pics, but there is a nice thick area rug just in front, and a very large over-stuffed corduroy sectional... | |
| Dumping McIntosh for Bose You’re done with music, its just movies now? | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It @kota1: I can appreciate what you’re driving at: the sensation of sound from everywhere is enticing. However, I think you’ve mistaken the intent of such systems. Surround isn’t necessarily to immerse or envelope, or engulf a listener. The orig... | |
| How do I know if my systems any good? Agree with the “…if it sounds good”, “listen for hours”, “can’t walk away” school of appreciation noted here. My method is to enjoy what I have and tweak here and there, mostly with speaker positioning and AC power conditioning, not ADD but REMOVE... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? For me, it seems my "new hi-fi music" digs so much more detail out of recorded music, no matter the format, compared to my systems of old. And that also goes for playback of "older" recorded music. There is so much more information to hear. I go t... | |
| Budget amp that will give Magnepan 3.6Rs better depth of soundstage OP, I have been running Maggie 1.7i's with a Parasound A21+ , and a PrimaLuna Evo 300 preamp in a open plan room of 20 x 30ft., 9ft ceiling. The right side of the room is open to the front of the house, with only a staircase in-between the two lar... | |
| The difference between an Audiophile and a Stereophile? Ultimately, whatever we call ourselves, both stereo and audio-philes need a medium to trip their respective dopamine drop. That's music. And no, its not, with all due respect, just "sound". That's just not enough. Like, no way the great gear I o... | |
| Who is Gonna Buy A New Jeep Grand Wagoneer For the MacIntosh Stereo? So, the same folks who buy Skullcandy earbuds and use Alexa for home music are going to jump to Jeep's marketing Macintosh? They haven't a clue, (not that the marketers don't know that it won't stop some from buying anyway..."oooh, the blue light... | |
| Who is Gonna Buy A New Jeep Grand Wagoneer For the MacIntosh Stereo? Geez, does it never end here? It’s not enough that we are constantly exposed to hi-end dick measuring on this forum that we also have to also endure suggestions of who might be afflicted with vehicle music shrinkage too? I drive a VW Passat, it h... | |
| BluSound Node and Node 2 I've been using 2 Bluesound Node 2i's for a couple of years now. One in my whole house system with an ethernet connection (BS + OSD MI5 Amp+ Russound x5 Distribution amp) which feeds the multi-room speakers and outdoor music and the other wirele... |