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| Ripping CD's to hard drive I’ve used JRiver to easily rip thousands of CD’s flawlessly to FLAC with excellent metadata results. I’ve tried Exact Audio Copy but it didn’t get the metadata correct, but maybe I didn’t have the settings correct because EAC wasn't very intuitive... | |
| Preamp with two volume controls? First Sound preamps are quality units with left and right volume controls it that's what you're looking for. https://www.firstsoundaudio.com/ | |
| Looking for Blues with High Fidelity John Lee Hooker, notable albums: -The Healer - excellent album. -Chill Out -Mr Lucky -Don't Look Back | |
| Looking for Blues with High Fidelity Stevie Ray Vaughn - album "Couldn't Stand The Weather", and especially the cut, "Tin Pan Alley" is impressive. Agree with the previously mentioned Ronnie Earl. Albums "Beyond the Blue Door" and "The Luckiest Man" are very well recorded and pr... | |
| Tidal now offers HiFi at $10/month for HiFi! Right. You can always upgrade to 9216 kbps, but for my needs 1411 is good enough. Regarding spotify, for those who haven't read this older article in Variety dot com, they have been dragging their heels for a long time. “Spotify Dismisses Am... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Knopfler - Good On You SonMainstream, but awesome. Great textures and groove throughout song and actually the whole album. https://youtu.be/JIBCHh-fMUE | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. @n80 "Listening to Ronnie Earl right now. I dig it but if no one had told me I would have just called it straight up blues"There are many categories of Blues just like Jazz or any genre. I absolutely love Ronnie Earls music, and I would place him ... | |
| Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers Sorry I just kind of zipped through the answers to your post rather quickly, and not sure if this has been mentioned or not. You said you listen at moderate to loud levels? Have you ever checked the dB loudness level that you are listening? I only... | |
| Careful if buying Purist Audio Neptune fluid cables. A faint heart ne’er won fair maiden. 💃Sorry but IMO no wire is worth $2k+.Even if said maiden's "insides were lined with gold".To quote John Prine's "Pretty Good" | |
| Careful if buying Purist Audio Neptune fluid cables. The solution (no pun intended) is to make the fluid more viscous.The solution is to not by cables with fluid in them. Period. IMO. | |
| Careful if buying Purist Audio Neptune fluid cables. I also had some (lower level) Purist cables that leaked fluid as well. And after sending them back to Jim to fix twice, and still never held fluid, I said never again. | |
| Tekton Impact Monitors I just measured my LS50’s including the IsoAcoustic stands and they are 20.5"h x 8"w x 9.5"d, with the concentric tweeters level with my ears. So, the audio sickness in me says, Hey, they aren’t much bigger than what I have now ;-) I also have a p... | |
| Tekton Impact Monitors I have considered upgrading my KEF LS50's, however they are part of a large desktop system, (4' x 6'), and the Tekton monitors may be to large for a desktop system. Does anyone have any experience with both the LS50's and the Impact Monitor? | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps I’m heavily into the Blues, so a few of my favs...Diane Schuur – Blues for Schuur Karen Lovely - Still the Rain Bonnie Raitt - Million Miles Beth Hart - any Katie Webster - any Sena Ehrhardt - Cold Cold Feeling Valerie Wellington - A Fool for You ... | |
| Best way to connect multiple amps to one DAC using RCA's? It would be interesting to hear others solution to splitting the DAC signal to multiple headphone amps (3-4), plus an integrated amp. |