curiousjim
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| Given an Onkyo Integra M 504 today. Worth keeping? If that’s the one I think it is, it cost about a grand new, had sexy VU meters and got okay reviews. | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report Thanks rick for posting the exhibitor list. There are several I’d like to see/hear. | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? Don’t ever buy a new car, its value drops 30% the second you drive it off the lot! Same thing with hifi, but if you want new and exciting with a full warranty, you’ll buy new. | |
| Why do I need a switch? So I received and installed these, TP-Link Gigabit SFP to RJ45 Fiber Media Converter, Fiber to Ethernet Converter 10/100/1000Mbps RJ45 Port to 1000Base-SX Multi-Mode Fiber (MC200CM) Black https://a.co/d/7JUU7Su Easy peasy everything works and so... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Starting the day with The Ray Brown Trio, Soular Energy. | |
| Tune of the Day Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies. | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? Mihorn, Didn’t they warn you not to take the brown acid?? | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? Well let’s see. My ARC SP9 mkll still works perfectly and it’s from 1987. My Acoustat speakers from the eighties still sound great. My Pioneer tuner from the eighties still works and sounds great. My B&O Beogram 1900 from the seventies needs... | |
| Apple Music vs. YouTube sound quality Doesn’t YouTube’s highest paid service stream like 256 MP3? | |
| Tune of the Day Rush, The Spirit Of Radio. | |
| Fiber to my Etherregen… Sonore OM or generic? @j_andrews As an experiment, I just bought a couple of the Ethernet to fiber boxes and they should be here tomorrow. I didn’t want them near my equipment either, but as an experiment, I only bought a 1/3 meter fiber cable. But I have some lon... | |
| Patio tunes At my last house, I installed a couple of Peavey speakers outside and ran the wires into the living room where my rack was. With banana plugs, it only took a couple seconds to plug them in. All the best. | |
| Recommended Server? What’s your budget?? I’m using a Bluesound Node N130 running USB to my DAC. I bought it as my starter streamer and kinda stopped looking. I did get a LPS for it and it made an improvement. Total outlay, about $1100. | |
| Female XLR to RCA? @blisshifi Juan, correct me if I’m wrong, but as long as the impedance of the amps input is at least ten times higher then that of the preamp it should work. Right? | |
| The problem with PLC I’m sure you could build a better speaker for a tenth the price. |