grislybutter

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A Better Way to Buy Gear - Help Needed
@ntpc4 I like the idea of finding someone local from here. I wonder if the seller would open the box then.   
Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ?
no one said you are not crazy 😂 that's an entirely different question. We just commented on the move.  
Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ?
I like small spaces. I wouldn't.  
A Better Way to Buy Gear - Help Needed
I can add what I rarely end up doing: it's best to buy/sell when you have the upper hand (leverage is a ....) Our desires can often weaken us into dicey transactions   
A Better Way to Buy Gear - Help Needed
I bought a lot of things this way, PP for friends and family and then wait. (nervously) It always arrived as expected. However I always saw pictures, with the item on, looking functional. I don’t see why the seller wouldn’t open the box. This wa... 
seeking advice on iso pucks /stands or similair that won't stain speakers?
you can buy foam at home depot for $10 or go on acoustic expert websites where they sell the cut up foam for $3-400. I don't see/hear the difference.   
Accuphase Amp Burn In
you are supposed to burn it in outside of your setup, at a remote location, by a third party. Let me send you my address... 😂  
why expensive streamers
I am back to square 1. (I told you I was slow, thick and now also silly) With bit-perfect data transfer music providers, what does an expensive streamer does better than a basic one? Is it the data that it sends to the DAC?  
why expensive streamers
I think you misunderstood me @cleeds I wasn’t talking about A specific service. I was talking about streaming in general, since there was so much confusion here. I was actually proving the exact same bit-perfect point but had to go off to a tang... 
why expensive streamers
I don’t imagine anything. Here is the spotify algorithm. I don’t know about every streaming services algorithm. If it's bit perfect, and no cutting corners, then great, I am happy to be wrong. https://engineering.atspotify.com/2018/08/smoother... 
why expensive streamers
Those here who have/use local files on their own storage they stream from have commented on how much better it sounds compared to some online sources that's because of the business rules. Playing via streaming (putting packages together as they... 
why expensive streamers
@nonoise  noise creeping into the many places it can from sender to receiver  what/who do you mean by sender and receiver?  
why expensive streamers
so, to be potentially off topic, from a software point of view, streaming is a method. It has nothing to do with data loss, error handling, the quality of the data, etc. The content (5 seconds of a cat video, pdf file or song) is converted into by... 
Quandary
$1500 is a great (annual) budget @inna . It can take you great heights :) I have learned so much here and benefitted from loaners and gifts from audiogon members, it improved my SQ experience 10-fold.  
why expensive streamers
@nonoise technology and AI will only make us less perfect. But the sum is.... somewhere still... not great 😎