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| Ripping CDs to Hard Drive and Live Recordings Metadata on CDs is pretty poor and certainly not standardized. Not sure who in the chain does this but it is not the users. The dats is also often wrong and reliably inconsistent. I always look it over and correct to my liking when ripping. I ha... | |
| Off the Grid Listening-HELP! “jbs, wouild you please clarify what you meant by, "I'd opt for the low power route and make that tradeoff but that's just me. Big loads are expensive and get complicated to build in that capacity unless money and space don't matter." Thanks in a... | |
| Off the Grid Listening-HELP! mterle, This is tricky. Here are some rough numbers from : https://diysolarshack.com/how-long-will-12v-battery-last-with-inverter/ A 12 volt 100Ah deep-cycle battery with regular depth of discharge 50% would run a fully-loaded 1000 watt inv... | |
| Off the Grid Listening-HELP! Smart man, Astolfor. I figured you had done something like that as a well insulated enclosure is the only solution I know of. None of this is particularly cheap. I figure OP needs to have other power (lights etc) in there which is why I was c... | |
| Off the Grid Listening-HELP! Mterle, it would help if you outline why you need off grid. It is more complicated but anything can be done with some homework and money. As mentioned above a generator can work to supply power but if one of your main goals in this is audio ex... | |
| Off the Grid Listening-HELP! I have an off grid house and run my stereo easily off it. With that that said I was careful in choosing the electronics such that it all uses maybe 50 watts when running. But that figure is highly dependent on your gear and it could easily be 300 ... | |
| Butcher Block Acoustics - What have they been up to? I Iredell two of their racks in the last 6 months and both arrived within a week. I would just email them and ask how long as generally they are super quick. Nice product. | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? Another vote on a quality mesh wifi network. One key is to be sure the mesh device in the listening room has Ethernet out. Some do and some don’t. For example older google wifi pucks do but the new Nest ones do not. Avoid extenders (they just gene... | |
| Bluesound Node2 with outboard DAC FYI, Have the current Node with Google Mesh wifi (older version) and the new Google Nest mesh. Flawless connection and no issues. I use an external DAC. Joshindc has an issue but a mesh network does not seem like the culprit. Maybe a network o... | |
| Google Nest WiFi Yes, but it is called “Google wifi” It is more puck like in shape and less rounded. On amazon. It is the older version of what nest is today. | |
| Google Nest WiFi The older ones all have an Ethernet out. When you setup, one become the router and the rest are wifi points with a Ethernet out. The devices are all the same but once you configure the main one it is the only router. I just looked and this looks p... | |
| Google Nest WiFi Pretty sure you can not have two routers on the same wifi network. The older google wifi devices can do this however. Maybe check if you can add one of those, which will be used as a switch, to a Nest wifi network. With that said I have run wirele... | |
| Problem duplicating my external HD onto another one I used have this happen when copying a large library from one HD to another. Do not use the windows tools to do this, I use terracopy. It rarely fails with such large IO operations. I have about 2T. If you stick with the native windows tools usual... | |
| thought on eBay? I use eBay plenty and have bought and sold higher end ($500-$2,000) audio gear there. When buying I always look for many instances of positive feedback and drop a question to the seller just to check out how the buyer responds. I have had excellen... | |
| Car Audio and the High End I enjoy both and look for similar things from my home and car system. Obviously what can be done and how they sound are dramatically different. In cars I generally spend 2-3k and can get a very nice setup. I always start with amplification and the... |