curiousjim
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| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? @alan60 Esbjorn Svensson is now on my 2025 list. Thanks! | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? Depending on if it was already broken in and how much shipping with insurance was, I might give it a try. But I really don’t want to pay $75 a day to burn in something or pay an additional $500 in shipping costs. See if anyone within a couple ho... | |
| Shameless Poll: Pearl vs Ohm vs Zu I had a pair of Ohm F’s years ago and loved them. Depending on your room size, I would recommend getting the Ohm 2000’s. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS With only one caveat, I have always let my ears do the talking. That caveat is, does the amplifier has enough umph ( watts and current and stability ) to run the speakers I have at the time. Other than that, I don’t care. | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT I have a BS Node N130 with a separate linear power supply and I have a Aurender N200 streamer. When plugged into the same DAC, they sound very much alike, but there’s a huge difference in presentation. The N200 sounds cleaner and you can hear ind... | |
| Tune of the Day Sea Level, https://youtu.be/yX2_zkbuWOw?si=qAXKlO5SZHlZ7eJf | |
| Audiohifistore.com is a SCAM Thanks for the warning. Although I’m sure surprised that they are still in business or that someone hasn’t taken matters into their own hands. | |
| Streamer output options If you’re running usb out of a computer there’s a possibility that power might be running through also and that can add a bunch of noise, but if you’re running out of a streamer that’s set up for using usb as it’s preferred output like Aurender, t... | |
| Tune of the Day Le Roux, Take A Ride On A Riverboat. | |
| Tune of the Day String Driven Thing, Heartfeeder. | |
| Tune of the Day Elton John, Harmony. | |
| Tune of the Day LRB, One For The Road. | |
| Tune of the Day Affinity, Night Flight. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Affinity, Affinity. 1970 | |
| Tweaking Your Speaker Placement My speakers weigh around 130# and are on Gaia ones. In the past I’ve used butcher blocks and found they helped a bit, but when I went to granite, things just came together. With my current speakers, the tweeters are higher and don’t have the same ... |