bondmanp
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| Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :) So, I love my curated, a.k.a. hodgepodge system. It’s not expensive by high end standards, but I love listening to all genres on it. It’s far from perfect. I get to hear a lot of high dollar systems through my local audio club, and rarely do I fe... | |
| Paypal drastic changes This is what happens when Big Governments start to run out of money. The result is usually a thriving black market where the government gets a big fat goose egg. Ask anyone in Russia, Greece, or many other places. The next step is a cashless ec... | |
| Stepping into streaming, finally @romanesq So what's the difference between the Finisar you are using and something like this: https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-iso-plus-2#overview For someone like me who is not tech savvy, the DX Engineering looks like an easier fix,... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Dig deep? My Arion Audio S500 amp was priced at $2500 when I got it a few years ago. It packs 500 watts per channel and sound great. My inefficient speakers soak up those watts and sound wonderful to my ears. | |
| Crackle and hiss on some albums @fuzztone ...+1 on the Sugarcube by Sweet Vinyl. I have been happily turning sows asses into silk purses with my SC-2 since I got a beta unit when it was crowd funded in 2016. Of course, I still use my vacuum record cleaning machine, the cheep an... | |
| Transparent Audio is anything but Transparent @audio_is_subjective +1, except for your gratuitous use of apostrophe's 😉 | |
| Stepping into streaming, finally So, if I read the description of the Staccato correctly, it is 100% Bluetooth. I don't doubt what the OP says he hears, but that's something if BT outperforms Wifi, especially at this modest price. | |
| Qobuz hell I have no trouble with Qobuz via my Android phone, Small Green Computer Sonic Orbiter and Sonare Ultra Rendu. Used in conjunction with Roon. | |
| question of soundstage Maybe try some tube rolling? When I rolled from OEM tubes on my McIntosh C220 pre to Mullard reissues, my sound stage did widen a bit. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner Great thread! I currently use a cheap and cheerful KAB record cleaner with a canister vacuum attached. I have been eyeing the Humminguru, as I like the principal of US cleaning, and the all-in-one automated aspect, especially the drying feature.... | |
| Is My McIntosh C52 Pre-amp The Weak Link? IMHO, keep the Mac, but upgrade the DAC. | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? The speakers I bought after a dozen auditions of all sorts of speakers at local hifi shops in 2000 were good, but ultimately, not keepers. In 2009 I bought my current speakers without any auditions, based largely on a lengthy thread here on the '... | |
| Anthony (Tony) Cordesman has passed away Loved his audio reviewing work. Not nearly as big a fan of his other work as a national and global security analyst. I wrote to him once because I took issue with something he had written regarding geopolitics, mentioning that I was a big fan of... | |
| Best Covers Rob Dickinson - "Wish You Were Here" | |
| Best Covers I Am the Walrus - Boingo Wild Horses - The Sundays Dance Me Til the End of Love - Madeline Peyroux Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things - The Pogues with Kristy MacColl It's Alright with Me - Tom Waits So In Love - k.d. Lang |