bipod72
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| 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... | |
| Axpona 2023 @jeffseight thanks for the heads up on Fritz. I've come to realize in short order here the amount of boutique speaker makers out there making great stuff. | |
| Axpona 2023 @kota1 Thanks, I'll check those out. I wasn't thinking of an active speaker set-up but am intrigued by the idea. | |
| Axpona 2023 @jeffseight I'll be in the market for some new reference bookshelf/monitor speakers and the MoFi Source point 8 has me really intrigued since I heard about it. Not just because of the smaller form factor and potential WAF but it appears to be spot... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Skinny Puppy's entire catalog is a challenge for any system and every listener. Intentional distortion, symphonic synthesizers, plenty of fast low end bass, ominous synthesizers, distorted vocals. It invites loud listening but also easy to start c... | |
| Adding a Dac and Stresmer My Marantz integrated is capable of streaming and has a decent DAC for the price point but I recently picked up the Cambridge Audio CXN V2 to try out and have decided to keep it. The price had dropped after CA introduced their lower line AXN strea... |