falconquest
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| Brian Eno's Turntable Design 49 and counting! | |
| RIP oregonpapa I had to throw my hat in the ring as wishing his family sincere condolences at his passing. It's always hard to believe when you lose the good ones. I hope the system he is hearing now is as special as he was. | |
| Brian Eno's Turntable Design Wow, I can't believe the ire expressed here for Brian Eno! I consider him to be an eclectic, influential creator of new musicscapes. Indeed his influence is vast and wide. Here is a bit from wiki... "A self-described "non-musician", Eno has help... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? Quite an interesting range of responses. I always look at frequency response first and it must designate the 3db roll off point. I don't want to have to use a sub. As opposed to what someone else said about size. I recall a statement that Nick Mas... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment I was very fortunate to be able to upgrade from my original Holo Audio DAC to the May. I also took some time to work through the Master Set speaker placement process. I am very impressed with the results. | |
| Not Sure If This Is OK Here, But Here Goes I agree with @jackd. I had a buyer who said he was from Columbia and of course I thought, "yeah right". He explained to me that they don't have access to equipment like we do in the States. He said the freight forwarder out of Miami would handle t... | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? 101-ILS WILS out of Lansing Michigan. WRIF Baaaby! With the Grand Poobah himself. You and me with Arthur P. (Penhallow) From the HOME of Rock & Roll, Detroit Baaaaby! Also have to give a shout out to Stephen Hill with his Hearts of Space pro... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. Here are mine...StylusCartridgeTonearmPlatterClampPhono preampIsolationRecord cleanerSnapCracklePopetc.etc. | |
| Cocktail Audio Firmware Update Issues Well, I figured out my problem. A little google searching revealed that the newest version of Tidal requires iOS 13 or newer version of operating system. My iPad is old enough that it only supports up to version 12.5.5. So the only solution for me... | |
| Cocktail Audio Firmware Update Issues I don't know about cocktail audio but my tidal app was dropped from my i-pad completely. It says it requires ios-13 or newer version. When I try to update my i-pad, the latest version available is ios-12.5.5. Something is going on! | |
| Power conditioner some say yes and some say no. If you search “balanced power” you will learn a lot about how AC power can affect your system. I have posted links a couple of times to a presentation by Garth Powell who was formerly with Furman Power but left to join Audioquest to develop the Ni... | |
| Advice on a streamer There is a mint Aurender ACS10 on U.S. Audio Mart for $3750. splurge and be done. It’s an excellent product. | |
| THE IRS HAS TAKEN MY TRANSACTIONS VIA PAYPAL AND IDENTIFIED THEM AS TAXABLE INCOME "This country is broke . when are you guys going to realize that. were seeing massive inflation right now because its the only way they can handle the debt problem , its not transitory like the secretary of the debt said , you haven’t seen nothing... | |
| WHAT SONG TOUCHES YOUR HEART THE MOST? I have a few to contribute and three were already mentioned.IZ (Israel, Over the rainbow/what a wonderful world)Peter Gabriel, BikoDiana Krall, Case of You (I like this version over Joni Mitchell’s original)Loreena McKennitt, Dante’s PrayerDire St... | |
| Considering a POSSIBLE replacement for speakers. Opinions? You should take a serious look at Spendor. I bought a pair for a second system and they are very impressive. |