czarivey

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What To Do?
small claims is bogus where your lawyer may have unreasonable attorney fees towards the price of the equipment that is extremely questionable and judge would not issue you full refund of attorney fees. it's a game of a chance where you likely will... 
Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse?
@jacobsdad2000  The number of books on that I've read is sufficient enough to be aware of Likely vs. Unlikely.  AES papers by Dr Kuncur will only add some fraction of percent to my established knowledge base coming from LIBRARY of my educational... 
Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse?
Having term Likely it's very easy to determine that UnLikely anything gonna happen with cable upgrades or downgrades.  
What To Do?
If you want to temper with vintage audio, the only way you have now is to become tech on your own...  
DAC's from the past, are any of them really worth much today?
DAC chips became a lot better, analogue output not that much. That's where vintage DACs more superior and let people keep them vs. newer models. Let the new DAC chip perform in the vintage chassis with the rest of electronics same, things may cha... 
Shipping woes and a partial solution
@whitestix  As long as it works, I'm for it, but the era of customer being right and the era of a good customer service is deeply shoved in the past. Now everyone trying to make you, the customer guilty and deny any liability. Corporation has BIG... 
Shipping woes and a partial solution
Pack well to ensure your package can be dropped from an airplane flying by without a parashot. Partial solution might not work, because shipping company does not give a clap about you anymore.  
Anyone else suffering with Qobuz tonight
Call authorized Qobuz repair tech  
How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing?
Drinking raw eggs will help singing practice. At least one audiophile have to try that tweak on speakers and see if they will start singing.  
What means embeddings control ?
ALGEBRAICALLY I guess. Let me know what numerical representations you've chosen per each of your component and how they can add-up  
What means embeddings control ?
Embeddings are dense numerical representations of real-world objects and relationships, expressed as a vector. They are used in machine learning to encode and decode the input and output texts. The vector space quantifies the semantic similarity b... 
LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW!
Vandersteen 1c 90s Totem Forrest next JBL4313 -- still have B&W C202 -- still have Aerial 10t #! -- Check -Mate ==>> The best speaker ever  
McIntosh C28 transistor subs
at digikey all you have to do is to punch in parameters of your original transistor and you'll get a variety of ones with different fittings and shapes. In case with transistors, unlike tubes their parameters may differ to a larger tolerance.  
WHY KRAUTROCK?
Understanding any language requires training and practice. Pop music is simpler to understand and in your mind you have trivial expectations of simple chord and harmonic progressions, beat and bass. Other music often needs analysis first to unde... 
WHY KRAUTROCK?
@inna No need. Language of music is universal