devinplombier
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| Stereo Times 2024 MOST WANTED COMPONENTS List @thecarpathian On my Pixel I just long-press the letter e and pick a character from the popup. On Windows, you have to use the ancient Character Map utility that comes with the OS. The Android implementation is just so much quicker and friendli... | |
| Stereo Times 2024 MOST WANTED COMPONENTS List @thecarpathian you said touche' instead of touché, omg that's so gauche! 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣 | |
| Who is Roon? I've found good info on Roon forums, albeit about subjects that were not directly Roon-related (since I have no use for Roon). Folks there tend to be helpful and often quite competent. you have no idea who’s responding if they are from roon or f... | |
| Who is Roon? @jastralfu Roon is not open source / free, therefore it is superior. This is a false statement. Plenty of open source software that is just performant and reliable as any proprietary software. sorry I have nothing to add about Roon as I d... | |
| Who is Roon? Roon is not open source / free, therefore it is superior. In high-end audio, the more expensive products are the better they sound, which is comforting - you get what you pay for - and Roon was happy to oblige. It became such a cash cow in the pro... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? I’m not a tube guy, but I am enjoying this thread a lot. Thanks @hilde45 for starting it, and thanks @atmasphere for your well thought out comments which, despite being nominally tube-oriented, hold a universal appeal especially regarding what we ... | |
| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? @mapman Any list that includes Brian Eno + David Byrne and Mantovani is my kind of list 🙂 | |
| Audiophile Equipment Repair? Ok. Maybe I should have written: "I believe that electronics repair is a really useful skill for audiophiles to have". Yea, I think I'll stick with that. I am totally on board with plumbing, haven’t had a plumber in my house since I realize... | |
| Stereo Times 2024 MOST WANTED COMPONENTS List Nice lifestyle write-up | |
| Audiophile Equipment Repair? I really believe that an audiophile should be able to repair their own electronics. The same way that if you own a motorcycle you can't help being / becoming at least a little bit of a mechanic. | |
| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? Thank you for the kind words @tyray I am the opposite of a folk guy. I dated and lived with a diehard folk music fan and folk musician. I went into that relationship firmly believing that the best use of a Joni Mitchell record was to protect the... | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. My Infinity RS-II were toed in towards my ears. Reading this thread, I thought why not point them straight (no toe-in) and see what happens? To my surprise, the soundstage improved quite a bit, though precision and immediacy seem to have been di... | |
| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? All, A good example of "major musical discovery", for me, would be a band discovered at age 50 that is still in heavy, almost-daily rotation at age 60 (despite having ever produced 3 albums). Bands that rose to the same level of significance as ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT there is a reason why people buy a $7000 Sean Jacobs power supply for their Chord Dave. Yep | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE AMPS REALLY WORTH IT? @mclinnguy No. Folks look for certain attributes in amps that supports their listening styles. Those attributes don't necessarily command high prices. Some folks like 10-watt single-ended triodes. T... |