flyfish77
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| Yamaha Amplifier Warranty Issues The warranty on your Yamaha integrated amp is two years. It is unrealistic to expect Yamaha or the dealer to replace your amp with a new model due to supply chain issues due to parts availability A refurbished amp to replace yours is very reason... | |
| Hidden Gems in Classic Rock Albums Fleetwood Mac’s Kiln House is a gem. The guitar playing is fantastic throughout. The song writing is very good and ranges from snarling, epic rock jams, slide guitar blues, to the lovely Like Crying. The classic song ‘Oh Well” in on the album. ... | |
| MQA Declares Bankruptcy My opinion is that MQA never really had a chance because it is a proprietary technology. MQA adds costs and complexity throughout the music/supply chain to play high resolution music when the competition is using a standardized format that is f... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report I went to Axpona last year. I won't go this year. From my perspective, it was an exercise in excess. Most vendors were displaying gear that was way past my budget. Plenty of vendors had setups that cost as much as an automobile and fill an enti... | |
| Ripping CD's to hard drive I have ripped my CD's to AIFF files using iTunes on my iMac. I have done that partly because I am lazy and partly because iTunes allows me to automatically have my ripped music collection automatically synched to my iPhone as lower resolution fil... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? Most people that I know in my age group do not listen to new music at all. That is not me. Streaming has enabled me me discover lots of music that is new to me. That includes brand new releases, new artists, and older music that I have not list... | |
| I feel bad for Generation X and The Millennial's I’m a Boomer and there is no way that I would consider any era of music to be better than another. It is all in the brain of the listener. 95% of the Boomers that I know only listen to the same rock/pop/soul music that the listened to in high sch... | |
| David Crosby R.I.P. Upon learning about David Crosby's death, I started listening to Crosby's 1971 record, "If I Could Only Remember My Name". I owned an 8 Track tape of that and listened to it in my 1970 Mustang. Once I got rid of that car, I had nothing to play 8... | |
| Using streaming as a main source ---DSD, FLAC, MQA Streamers and DACS I wouldn’t get too caught up in the audio format debate. If you are interested in trying or using MQA, buy a DAC and streamer that support MQA and Tidal. Just about any setup that will handle MQA will handle FLAC and other audio formats includin... | |
| Streaming integrated for Silverline Sonatinas The Bluesound Edge listed above or the Bluesound PowerNode 2 would work well. The Bluesound app is very good and the app can make a big difference to some people. The Denon PME-900HNE is relatively new and has gotten some good reviews. ... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? I do not like or use MQA because it is a proprietary, licensed format that is far more complex than the alternatives, like FLAC. The sound differences have nothing to do with my decision especially since the differences that I have heard have bee... | |
| Tom Petty and Hearbreakers Live at the Filmore 1997 Both Roger Mcguinn and John Lee Hooker play on multiple songs on the album. Hooker seemed to be having a great time, which is very entertaining. The Heartbreakers perform one Bo Diddley song. Sadly, Bo Diddley could not make it on the album bec... | |
| Music Servers/External Drives You can keep it simple and inexpensive. A spinning hard drive connected to your Roon server will work just fine. It is important, however, to have backup copies of your music someplace else. Any hard drive, be it spinning or SDD can fail. I ri... | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. Nanci Griffith was a fantastic genre busting singer,songwriter and peformer. Her studio albums were for the most part wonderfully recorded. Mollie O'Brien has a fantastic voice and can sing anything. | |
| When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one... It all depends upon the room and how the speakers integrate into the rest of the system. With the right components, inexpensive speakers can sound really good. I have had NHT Super Zero 2.1 speakers in my secondary system for around twelve years... |