bipod72
Responses from bipod72
| "I'm a believer" There is definitely a Rule of Diminishing return just as there is the Sunk Cost Fallacy. I suspect that the Venn diagram of those two circles would be close to one circle in some cases for certain audiophiles. For example, someone subconsciously s... | |
| Looking for a decent CD Recorder Wouldn't you want a portable record player to play LPs in the car? I don't think a 12" record will fit into the CD slot. | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation Don't most of the new components these days have a standby option? My Marantz unit uses 0.03w/hr in standby mode as does my CA streamer per the apps. I don't let my gear stay on all day and night. If it stays on overnight it's by accident. If it's... | |
| Why Streaming Service Sounds ‘Flat’ vs Tune In /Local FM /Radio Paradise I know for a fact that for every $1000 you spend over what you previously spent on a particular component, the sound quality increases 10K based on the unquantifiable fact that your system must assuredly sound better if you keep spending more and ... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? I live in a state that is more or less an audio store desert unless you count Best Buy. I’m in the similar situation you find yourself in, in that, how do I go about buying or demo’ing speakers for my system. This means I’m trying out the limited ... | |
| Need advice on what to purchase to hold 1TB of music and connect to my new Innuos Pulsar. Beware of buying an SSD that is running USB 3.0. it may be incompatible with your system if it's running USB 2.0. I initially bought a Samsung 2TB SSD. It was not compatible with with my Marantz or Cambridge units. A NAS is overkill in my opinio... | |
| Would a real butcher block be going to far? When you say old world butcher block are you talking about old growth European hardwood butcher block tips or American old growth maple? Keep in mind, work-a-day butcher blocks were never made for their resonance response to low end frequency an... | |
| Would It Be Possible To Get Help Finding This Song? If you have a cable subscription, I'm assuming you do to watch Fox, you can access episodes on their website. Including last Friday's episode. You would watch the segment that has the music clip and Shazam it. | |
| Inexpensive streaming amplifier I think only one person gave the proper response. Go with an AVR from Marantz or similar. Way more functionality than a Powenode. In fact you get the Marantz NR1510 for $600 which gets you streaming capabilities across multiple platforms, multiple... | |
| Air conditioning for audiophiles. I sometimes forget there is a big world out there that has not been introduced to the magic of central air. But I feel your pain. I lived in a post-WW2 3-story walk-up in Alexandria VA for several years and it had no air. I had two window units, o... | |
| Turntable recommendation I cycle through streaming, CDs and vinyl on a daily basis a few times a week. I don't have a huge vinyl collection, it's very focused on certain artists and certain albums I love. The same goes for my CD collection. I think a REGA P1 plus would be... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? Defining what you mean by "highly processed" would be helpful when asking this question. Do you consider Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to be highly processed? How about every Steely Dan or Rush album? One could make the argument that anything recorded... | |
| Ripping CD's I used to use Winamp a long time ago for ripping CDs and burning mix CDs. In fact I still listen to those 15yo mix-CDs in my car. I recently began using JRiver for ripping CDs to FLAC for backup and purge purposes. I found Maxell & Verbatim C... | |
| The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs @gkelly I'm on a fixed income as well in that I have to strategically make hi-fi purchases relating to substantial upgrades. I have a family to raise and the kids and wife seem to vacuum up my $ and time. But that's life right? I have a modest mi... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? My wife loves listening to music. We go to live shows and music festivals quite often. What she doesn't like to see is a a bunch of clutter and a stack of hi-fi equipment put on display like a Donald Judd sculpture. Although if I could get my hi-f... |