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| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! This is a great business model. We all know already that every successive pressing is a little less perfect than the one before. So if you have the 1000th and last press from a stamper the quality is not as good as press number one from the new st... | |
| Equal $$ for Phono OR Streaming? R-pi plus Allo hat for £150. Khadas DAC for £90. Roon plus Qobuz for £25 a month. Less without Roon if you can bear it. | |
| Please Educate Me Paul6001,I was new here not so long ago too. I liken the experience to being a bride’s guest at a wedding where most of the other guests are the groom’s family - and they drink too much and bicker over dinner and end up having a fist fight in the ... | |
| DAC break-in... I can see the relevance of running in moving parts (to remover the burrs, to distribute lube, to align long molecules in a plastic or rubber). But all the specs I’ve seen for electronic components suggest that they start ageing in a negative way f... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Obscure? Perhaps not. Overlooked? Certainly: https://youtu.be/hbPfPCz3GRA | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? As mentioned before, it is so easy and cheap to find out, why not try it. Pencil, or Frugalhorn, or Woden - these designs give a pretty flat response from around 40 to 14,000Hz, are really easy to drive, easy to adjust to your room and tastes - an... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Try thinking of streaming as being a 20th century feature with a twist. Treat your Node 2! as a radio. Only, a radio where you can make pretty much any request. A radio is a streamer where someone else decides what to play. A Node is a radio where... | |
| For those that use an external DAC with node 2i ”You can not be certain of the source of the music available streaming. That is why I only listen to physical media.”So every pressing, every reissue, every care regime, etc etc is exactly the same when the media is physical? I’ll bet my physical... | |
| Best Ethernet Setup for Streaming Audio Try a Raspberry Pi connected to wired ethernet, with an Allo Hat for coax out to DAC, and put Roon on your laptop to make it all work together. | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? I built these Aveburys by Woden Design, using Mark Audio 12p drivers.https://www.wodendesign.com/avebury.html In the UK you can get great advice directly from the designer and from KJF Audio who can supply all the hardware. About £250 for the dri... | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? I’d like them to describe their preferred sound types - we all have a preference - up front. Then I’d like them to say how the speaker under test satisfies their preferences. How can they honestly do anything else? | |
| Why wont speaker companies publish their measurements? Of course, measurement is all! I will propose to a future wife based on measurements only. What could possibly go wrong?(it must be something to do with what is measured...) | |
| Inexpensive streamer options for Amazon HD? Try a Raspberry Pi 4 (about £35) with an Allo Hat for excellent coax digital out (about £40 I think) running free Ropiee XL. And you will have an excellent streamer. The money you save over alternatives in a posh box can be spent on Qobuz (plus Ro... | |
| Stand Deliver They are speaking out on some important social and political issues - just like they always have. Music has always been used to carry protest and I’m glad our most experienced generation of musicians is reminding us all it still can. | |
| 1099-K from PayPal (tax form) You guys pay so little personal income tax that your ever-more-European states are going to have to pull in every dollar they can from every other source. Over here in the UK I pay 25% tax on the first half of my income and 40% on the second half,... |