cleeds
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| Speakers The single most critical component dletch2... I don't think anyone discounts the importance of fixing acoustics if you are not listening near field, but if this was any time before about 1990(ish), there would be no discussion at all. Speakers would be the critical component a... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component hermanGarbage in = garbage out is a red herring.. even entry level source and amps are pretty good.. therefore there is no "garbage in". There is a little bit better in, there is I like the sound of that in a little better than another in, b... | |
| Digital free to air DAB+ tuner and some. georgehifi For those that don’t know what DAB+ is https://www.digitalradioplus.com.au/ I believe the US is looking at doing it too...DAB+ uses a lossy codec, just as with mp3 files.There are no plans for DAB in the US, afaik. We do have digital b... | |
| Connecting a streamer via an Ethernet cable lalitk... by going the ‘wired’ route you also eliminate RFI / EMI interferences ...What makes you think wired connections are immune to RFI/EMI? | |
| Surge protectors and power conditioners - Good idea or bad? oldhvymecFirst of all lightning is sent directly to the closest and biggest ground.Not so. That's not how lightning works. Most lightning never even makes it to the ground. Folks that use to get hit with lightning were hit because of antenna sti... | |
| A Word About SkyFi audio Customer Service stereo5SkyFi banned me for pointing out they were misrepresenting a turntable they had for sale. I didn’t know it until I tried to purchase something. While you had a good experience, I did not.That’s interesting. I note that SkyFi has been a memb... | |
| Equalization for vinyl nirvana joshindc ... with few exceptions, most of the time I’m underwhelmed by the results. Lack of bass and midrange fullness is usually the problem. Sure, I could look for another amplifier, subwoofer, better cables... but I think a simpler, more afford... | |
| Tonearm Ground Loop rondollarsign As I understand it, the cartridge is independently grounded, the arm should be independently grounded, and the motor/rest-of-the-table should be independently grounded (via the RCA ground wire to receiver) ...It isn't clear what... | |
| Sellers: When do you drop your price? tablejockeyValue of anything is in the eye of the buyer, not the seller or anyone here ...That is really not quite true. There's actually a legal standard for this, which is applied in cases such as condemnation and eminent domain disputes.Finan... | |
| Suddenly...one third of my tracks are 'unavailable' using Qobuz It looks like Genius Loves Company and a bunch of Ray's other latter albums are all missing from Qobuz. | |
| Suddenly...one third of my tracks are 'unavailable' using Qobuz wgs57Folks, I am very sorry...my error. It turns out those songs that were unavailable in my playlist were due to my local QNAP file server being powered off. This is not a Qobuz problem at all ...It’s okay - we’ve all made silly mistakes like th... | |
| Snake oil?? glupsonThe only thing I am not sure about is how adept is mijostyn at figuring out your data from an e-mail address.Mijostyn has a history of stalking on this site - he was once suspended for it - and that's all I need to know about him. | |
| SoundSmith cartridges how good? audioquest4lifeI believe he is the only American making handcrafted cartridges in the United States.Nope. There's Steve at VAS. As with Peter, he's a nice guy. | |
| Suddenly...one third of my tracks are 'unavailable' using Qobuz wgs57 ... my favourite playlist I created using Qobuz and suddenly 20 tracks out of the 63 tracks I have added is now unavailable? I guess Qobuz is like popular video streaming services where movies come and go ...I have not found that to be... | |
| Snake oil?? glupsonIt does not seem that anyone was asking for it anyway.I think most reasonable people would consider @mijostyn's statement, "Get me an address and I will mail you a picture" as a request for personal information. Of course you may feel di... |