jji666
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| Sound quality of Roon Roon is definitely the best overall. Yes, quirky and unstable with limited support resources, but no doubt an amazing experience when working properly. the thing is it takes a long time to optimize sound quality with Roon. And when you benchmar... | |
| Software recommendations MUST try Roon. Not that it's more stable, but at least it's worth the trouble. It's a different league from what's be recommended so far. | |
| The greatest tweak ever? Then I remembered that the HEPA filter was on because we’d smoked a huge blunt! That is the best tweak ever. | |
| Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable The only thing you can do with fancy ethernet cables is cause problems. This is packet based communication...they do not have a tone or a sound. They might theoretically cause (and thus another cable could solve) grounding issues. | |
| Just got a new Bluesound Node. Very disappointed! Another post in favor of "there's something wrong with the configuration." While different streamers can have a bit of difference in sound, it shouldn't be as you describe, with something sounding "broken." | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Thank you all for playing. The correct answer is of course Repo Man. However many of the other guesses are excellent. In all seriousness, this thread has reminded me of how much movie soundtracks have contributed great music or fit so well with... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) I wonder how many people know who Howard Tullman is or even read through the article. I was on his legal team during the initial JamTV/Tunes.com work. He's definitely not a small minded guy. He does like to stir the pot. If you read to the bott... | |
| How Audiphiles are Different Also, this is a glossary from Stereophile Thanks - yes - a number of useful terms. I’ve seen these glossaries. My point was, which I just think is interesting, that many of these are actually metaphors taken from our other senses. Robert Harl... | |
| Analog vs. digital It may be helpful to clarify what genres of music we are talking about. I understand the point about realism when trying to recreate sitting at an unamplified piano recital. I don't understand the point about realism when trying to recreate the... | |
| How Audiphiles are Different This is a very interesting discussion. We do hear things differently, and we also value different things. I value having access to so many different pieces of music and artists and being able to enjoy them in so many different ways - stereo aud... | |
| hearing loss and amp choices Two things: (1) I think the comments about EQ are right on. Consider some of the digital EQ you can get from Roon or similar. You don't have to put it through a box with lots of levers if you don't want to. (2) Subwoofers - especially a good RE... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? If you use the balanced XLR connections, you can use just well built standard Mogami or similar and not worry about it. By design balanced XLR removes any noise or coloration within the interconnect. | |
| Why did my amp just crash and burn ? dont eff with your amp, interconnects or speaker cables while playing Obviously can't argue with this logic, HOWEVER I have found that it isn't a problem to move around balanced XLR interconnects. Definitely best to turn off the amps before m... | |
| Using Adcom GFA-555s as monoblocks to power magnepan 3.3s in active biamp i do not use the crossover boxes and changed the jumpers on the back of the speakers. This is what I do as well. Magnepans are the best for biamping because of the external crossovers. I have a Marchand crossover - or to be precise a custom bu... | |
| What is your record cleaning regimen? Mostly I blow on the stylus between records. But I have the Spin-Clean record washing system (Mk II) and found that was pretty easy to use. |