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curiousjim

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Jazz for aficionados
Horace Silver, Six Pieces Of Silver  
Whats playing on your system today?
Avatar: The Way Of Water, Soundtrack.  
Whats playing on your system today?
Snarky Puppy, Empire Central in HR.  
Whats playing on your system today?
Batdorf & Rodney, Life Is You Poco, Legend  
Snell Type A speakers
If you put some money into them, like replacing the tweeters and updating the crossover bits, you’d have a great pair of speakers, but to unload them as is, probably not much.  The A’s were my first big, non bookshelf speakers. All the best.  
Jim Fosgate, RIP
Wow, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Sorry to hear of his passing.  
' Happy Holidays to all ' Another year down the tubes!
@yogiboy  I like your arrangement 😁 All the best to you and yours!  
Will a USB hub affect the stream?
The easy answer is yes,   Everything matters. But, and there can be a lot of buts. Age, hearing, room, quality of the complete system, listening habits and many more things that I’m not thinking of at the moment. I used an USB, A/B switch behind ... 
Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time?
While I have been the first to use outlets in a room for my hifi (new house), I have never A/B’d before and after. Saying that, I would doubt that whether it was a space heater or an amplifier, anything would change after 100-200 hours of use.  
Help optimizing my streaming setup
Thanks @erik_squires  I think I’ll buy on and see what happens.😁  
The revolution has begun!
@fatdaddy2  😆🐾😆🐾  
Help optimizing my streaming setup
@erik_squires  I’m using a Netgear Powerline 2000, so I have a cat8 cable from the router to one of the boxes and have two cat 8 cable from the other box to my Hegel and my streamer. Would the EverStar work in this setup? Would I need more than o... 
Pontus ii and Hi Res
@chocaholic  Try the three month free trial from Amazon HD or the one month trial from Qobuz. No MQA, but high res up to 24/192!  
The revolution has begun!
I’ll still with my class AB that I just bought. Maybe in ten or twenty years I’ll get the itch to look for new power and speakers.  
Pontus ii and Hi Res
@chocaholic  I have the same setup, but the Pontus ll doesn’t do MQA. If you want MQA, you need to run if from the node to you integrated amp or preamp.