curiousjim
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| RIP J Eric Johnson Who? | |
| How serious are you? During Covid, I bought my first integrated amp ever and had to buy new speakers for it of course as well as speaker wires and Gaia 1 feet for the speakers. I had never tried streaming before so I bought a streamer, then a better power supply, a b... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @oddiofyl Listening to Dissolution now and I’m digging it! Well recorded album to. | |
| Tune of the Day Anyone know how many covers of Voodoo Child (slight return). There are? There’s Hendrix and Vaughan and??? | |
| Tune of the Day Dave Mason, Mystic Traveler. | |
| Ethernet streaming @joc3021 I’d go with separate components. So when I was looking for a new integrated amplifier, I saw one that had a DAC and it could stream. I thought, wow, this is really cool, but when I got it all hooked up, there was barely a streamer and... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? The long and the short of it is it’s your ears. If you’re happy with a $250,000 rig, great. If you’re happy with a transistor am/fm from the sixties, great! Don’t let anyone try to influence you in this. Trust in your ears. Trust in yourself. | |
| What do you hear with a better/bigger power supply and output capacitors in same amp? Working with electronics is like baking, you have to follow the recipe. If you change the caps by adding more or bigger it’s about the same as changing the amount of baking powder you add to the mix. It might not do much or it might change ever... | |
| playing "top-damaged" CDs ? @richalan A nickel says that 99.9% of them will play just fine. I also have the 6000cdt and it’s great, but I’d still try to get off as much of the paper as you can! All the best. | |
| Mobile Fidelity 24k CDs @goofyfoot I believe the Gold Archival CD’s have a life expectancy of three hundred years. I personally won’t be around to find out. Why not?😀 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jutta Hipp, Cool Hipp. | |
| Mobile Fidelity 24k CDs @tattooedtrackman congratulations on your upgrades! MOFI is MOFi. Having said that, the biggest difference between the gold and the aluminum layers, is that there is a small chance that the aluminum ones degrade in time, but the gold one’s pre... | |
| Tune of the Day Dave Clark Five, Glad All Over. | |
| Tune of the Day Patto, Hold Me Back. https://youtu.be/Wt0wjrF523s | |
| Jazz for aficionados Sadik Hakim, Witches, Goblins, Etc. |