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| Resolving Hum with Battery Back-up (EcoFlow) vs Power Conditioners: success vs failure Anyone who understands and respects what research is should generally not request a thread be eliminated for sake of regretting his/her own comments within it, once other posters have made significant contributions of their time and knowledge. Tha... | |
| Are You A Disciplined Audiophile? One would need to do repeated measurements with multiple same-model drivers, simultaneously, to control for QC / tolerance. Pretty straightforward. No such thing as a more or less “disciplined” audiophile in the way OP mentions, that I can think ... | |
| Streamer only jallan 248 posts 04-02-2024 at 06:06pm Aurender N100H are available used for $1200 or so on this site and others. My own ears provide “anecdotal “ evidence of a profound increase in sound quality above using my Mac laptop as a streamer. The... | |
| Streamer only pal OP 151 posts 04-02-2024 at 05:38am Thanks for the suggestions. My budget was under 1000 new or used. Hi @pal I think it’ll be up to you, figuring out whether benefit lies in spending your full budget or 10-20% of it. Here’s why - Stre... | |
| Which external SSD for music streaming? stievus OP 50 posts 03-26-2024 at 07:40pm One afterthought, will the difference in access speed be noticeable? Or is this just a measurement thing? @stievus anecdotally, maybe. Your question is akin to asking if an OS (e.g. Windows)... | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? Assertion of this “effect” disregards the a lack of correlation between two things that are assumed to (1) be real and (2) have a cause-and-effect relationship, while neither has been experimentally demonstrated. At the same time, nothing to teas... | |
| Weirdest record defect? Early on in all those colored RSD pressings I noticed all kinds of seemingly-QC-related issues. I’m a decided member of the camp that holds certain tracks/albums on vinyl as certain old pressings still cannot be bested (for my preferences) by the... | |
| Had anyone listened to Ken Fritz's system in person? I recall reading that the speakers auctioned for a bit over USD $10K. No missing zero(s) in that value. Picked up via a Uhaul truck, IIRC? No recollection of the other stuff’s value(s). Happens to all sorts of collections that aren’t properly in... | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors audiokinesis 2,704 posts 03-28-2024 at 11:26am … making specific acoustic treatment recommendations is something that I’ve learned to leave to the pros because they can make a MUCH bigger improvement than I can. If you don’t have anyone i... | |
| Aurender n200, talk me out of signing on the dotted line Is this thread’s title serious, or more a search for confirmation? I have no need for any unit such as this and couldn’t be talked into spending 1/10th of the retail price for one, but seems you want to get it, so why would anyone need to talk yo... | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors ozzy OP 7,161 posts 03-27-2024 at 06:14am This is a recent post from the Audio Sharks Forum by SunCoast Audio about the Clarisys speakers. "Clarisys are panels, dipoles, so the sound is coming out the front and back. It doesn’t care what’... | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors @ozzy what are you intending to change with diffusers? From the setup pics, the main issues I’d predict are (1) proximity to the sidewalls (seems the company recommends more space between speaker x side boundaries?), (2) fully carpeted floor (mig... | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? Alcohol or late night delirium if no one else hears it, too. One person on multiple nights is a repeated measure from a sample size of one. Not particularly conclusive. OP, I’m not saying the phenomenon you describe isn’t possible; I’m saying it... | |
| Digital newbie mahler123 2,988 posts 03-25-2024 at 08:00pm It is interesting that most of the responses, which in general are quite helpful, restrict themselves to streaming. Technically digital also means silver disc play. I took the OP to mean that he... | |
| Which external SSD for music streaming? @stievus correct - any 2.5” SATA III SSD drive in an external USB 3.0/3.1 2.5” drive case should be compatible with a USB 2.0-in audio device. Any issue would likely be on part of either the external case’s SATA-USB chipset or the streamer’s USB-i... |