carlsbad2
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| Where does music come from that streams? Lots of BS in this thread. They often come from CDs, they picture the CD art usually. They also tell you what remaster it is. Sometimes several different versions are available but other times, the version you want isn’t. For higher resolution ver... | |
| Have I Found the Holy Grail of Audio Systems? My Surprising Discovery I hope it sounds as good as your description. Do you work in marketing? That said, good to hear the report on the GR research upgraded speaker. I think crossovers are a fertile ground to look for sound improvements (I have rebuilt mine). Con... | |
| Tubes, tone, and old age. @llg98ljk Keep whipping that dead horse repeated by ss fans ad nauseum. | |
| Tubes, tone, and old age. Along this line, it has been stated by someone whose opinion I trust, that many high end speakers are bright at the high end because the target market is older, affluent individuals who have hearing loss at the upper end. So shop for speakers tha... | |
| Hooked up Shiit Mani incorrectly @hickamore The engineered solution would be to use different phono-only connectors, caps that must be removed and are marked with warning statements, or other human factors safeguards. In the nuclear industry caps are put over important buttons t... | |
| Hooked up Shiit Mani incorrectly If you are lucky, all you fried is your phono stage. Have you switched away from "phono", hooked up to a normal input, and still have problems? | |
| Speaker binding posts with plastic covers Most people won't agree, but I would probably just replace the binding posts. I make my own binding posts but they are low mass and very similar to these from KLEI. https://partsconnexion.com/products/klei-classic-harmony-binding-posts | |
| Speaker binding posts with plastic covers They aren't for personnel safety and not required by any code, they are to protect your amp from accidental shorting which is the most common cause of amp failure. (Everyone says "it just failed!!!"). Usually you can unscrew them with your finge... | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? @glennewdick I had a coin business for years. In the coin business we have a saying that insurance stickers mean "steal me". Most coin dealers on expensive packages do not use insurance but instead pay for signature confirmation. Jerry | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? For those of you who say "paypal goods and services of hit the road", what do you do if they don't take paypal? | |
| Streamer to Denafrips Iris to Pontus need cable suggestions please Looks like USB is your obvious choice from Aurender to Iris. Iris and Pontus both support AES/EBU and I2S. The problem with I2S is there isn't a good standard and few great cables. I would lean toward AES/EBU. I'm using an audiosensibility si... | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? Never ask the seller to buy insurance. Now you're sharing in the responsibility for safe delivery. It is fully the seller's responsibility. Leave it that way. Occasionally I see sellers saying that insurance is the buyer's option. I usually r... | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? @invalid I disagree. In the past, if you sold a personal item, not for a gain, you didn't report it. Now, since there is a 1099, you have to deal with it. | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? @viridian I bought my first set of "good" speakers on AudioMart. It was from a guy in San Francisco (about 400 miles away). We met at a gas station on I-5 in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the winter with 40 mph winds, it seems like th... | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? @curiousjim Not that I know of. $9k is most I've done. @viridian I think that is good insight. In addition to the disenchantment, I think most of them didn't understand it. Even the paypal website has it wrong (as I posted above and was corr... |