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| Best standalone music server? https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/audio-server/products/sonictransporter-ap-8tb-roon-se...Get this guy and Roon. You’ll never look back. | |
| Roon and Squeezebox FWIW, I went Roon this past week. My office system has a SBT that's getting a wireless stream from Roon, no issues whatsoever. In my main rig, Roon beats my former LMS setup hands-down for sound quality. And the interface is a game-changer. No... | |
| High End Ethernet Cables ....Real Deal or Snake Oil Lalitk, your answer is Blue Jeans Cable. No snake oil, only pro broadcast-standard cabling. Here's your test data: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/is-your-cat6-a-dog.htmI went from a cheap Monoprice Cat 6 to Blue Jeans 6a and easily not... | |
| Tidal News RE: Sprint Acquires 33 Percent of Jay Z's Tidal for $200 Million :-) | |
| Tidal News RE: Sprint Acquires 33 Percent of Jay Z's Tidal for $200 Million This is good for audiophiles. As bandwidth has gotten cheaper, full-res and hi-res streaming is getting closer to the mainstream. Once they can get "Joe Bose" and "Bill Beats" to decide they like the _idea_ of better quality streaming audio, it ... | |
| How often is your system "good"? M. Ward? Mike Ward? My system sounds better some days, and I'm ready to admit it's entirely due to my mindset before I sit down to listen. Except for that one time, when I'd accidentally pressed the phase button on the preamp remote. :-) | |
| low power tube amp Heartily agreed, Charles and Al. | |
| low power tube amp Charles, You’d be hard-pressed to find a lesser-quality tube amp than mine!* It retailed new for a thousand bucks, with a pair of monitor speakers bundled for free.That said, it is an over-achieving little beast. :-)*Perhaps this sentence has neve... | |
| low power tube amp A tube amp will clip "softly" by rounding off the wave, as opposed to the much more dangerous hard clipping produced by a transistor amp that's pushed too hard. My speakers are recommended for 150-800W, and I've driven them for years with a 38-wa... | |
| anyone stream using livephish app or youtube into their main rig? Huge Phishnerd here. Best option for LP app or youtube is to go USB from your laptop into your DAC, nothing else required. That's how I do couch tour -- laptop sends video to a monitor I set up in front of the rig, and audio via USB into DAC and... | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers I've heard it described like this: remember that the amp is not just pushing against a spring in one direction, but rather pushing and pulling back and forth. Less impedance, e.g. a lighter spring in your analogy, means more slop, more wiggle ro... | |
| Warm-up time for amps and preamps The designer of my tube integrated said that it's fully warm and stable after 15 minutes. I'll give it at least 5 before starting any playback, and 15+ before sitting down for a listen.My DAC/Pre (no tubes) stays on 24/7.My office system has a Ya... | |
| Periodic noise As has been said before: Almarg for President. | |
| Killer Floor Standing Speakers under $4000 for Rock? You may dig on some Zu speakers like the Omen Def. | |
| ________ is an artist I did not expect to like but was pleasantly surprised. Vampire Weekend. |