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| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes To comment on a "Clean Network"... @sns - As you said, the WiFi signal is very noisy. What everyone forgets is that WiFi is a radio signal. So is the celluar signal your cell phone uses. And if your equipment, and not just your streamer, is no... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @devinplombier That said, big iron is fun! But if the yardstick is sound quality, enterprise-grade hardware will neither help nor harm, though as noted you’ll have to exile it to the basement and acquire serious network skills to operate it. ... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes +1 @mswale He is 100% correct. Thanks for bringing that up. I should have done so myself. Enterprise networking equipment is not for the amateur or weekend warrior in computers. I have 40 years in the business and have built, upgraded and ma... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? And you can always go with two stereo amps and bi-amp the speakers if you want the "monoblock" aesthetic (and I use that word very loosely). It isn't always about power or wattage. Amp design and their inherent "sound" usually more important, wh... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @yoyoyaya - Thanks, I got lucky. A local business went under and I managed to pick up a bunch of their equipment super cheap prior to the public auction. Thing is, if you know what you are looking for, you can pick up a lot of refurbed Cisco and... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @yoyoyaya @jeffbij re "Even a CD player has safeguards to guard against read errors, it’s called oversampling." CD error correction is based in Cross Interleave Reed Solomon coding. Oversampling is primarily used to allow shallower slope anti... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? @dman777 - You don't mention what speakers you are using. I'm suprised no one has mentioned it yet, There is one thing that happens when you bridge a stereo amp. The amp will see the speaker impedience load to be one half of the rating. I.e... | |
| Best Cheap DAC Streamer The WiiM's are also Amazon Alexa enabled. So you do have a level of voice control. How well it handles the voice commands, I don't know. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @cleeds I having to remember and Google. It was a few years ago. The modified DLink was an Aqvox. I remember that because there was a Linus Tech Tip on YouTube that did the tare down. I also seem to remember there was a Paul Pang modified DL... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @curiousjim I guess parts is parts and pieces is pieces and it don’t matter in what order they go cause it’s all gonna sound the same. Simply...No. Most of the conversation so far has been on digital data transmission and receipt. While the... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @hbarrel - they appear error-free to users because of sophisticated error detection, correction, and redundancy mechanisms built into the system. Here’s how they ensure high reliability despite the presence of noise... Exactly! This is the ke... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @cleeds - I haven't done much with switches labeled as "audiophile" grade. So, as I indicated, I don't know what they have all done inside other than changing out the power supply. Some may be completely reengineered and use top notch jacks, po... | |
| Integrated all in one for a second system I would second the current Hegel integrateds. Just to note, they are also a Roon Ready endpoint, which will get you Tidal and Qobuz. I'm probably going to go that way myself on the bedroom system and downsize the stack of equipment in there. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @devinplombier - I usually stay out of these conversations because they always seem to go sideways and inevitably lose the point of the original post. But today I have stepped into the fray.... So, here is my take on things... I agree with your... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @mswale, I agree with you. @jsalerno277 you wrote: Your minor premise is that these digital packets successfully travel thousands of miles through AWS’ digital sewer, only to arrive in our homes completely unscathed ones and zeroes. Facts pro... |