jond
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| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers @mgattmch I've never seen those before very cool and mid-century modern! In a similar vein there is a Scandinavian speaker maker whose name escapes me that makes a speaker in that shape. It has a bit of an Eames chair look to it and is in wood. | |
| Curious about older "world class" D/A converters Not sure if I would say world class but I bet this will sound great, no affiliation with the seller just an AN fan obviously.https://www.audiogon.com/listings/da-converters-audio-note-uk-dac-1-original-2017-09-04-digital-6476... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers @yogiboy lol thanks those look super cool though not for everyone as you said! | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers Just got my new Audio Note AN/Jlx's yesterday the style is a bit retro but I think they look amazing in their olive wood finish. There is a pic on my system page. Oh and they sound fantastic too which is why I got them. | |
| Full MQA music list. @ghosthouse understood and I imagine Tidal will figure it out. Also kind of glad it happened in the sense of I realize we've been paying $10/month to rent the stupid gateway over 10 years that's $1200! (I don't pay the cable bill my gf does shoul... | |
| Full MQA music list. One thing Tidal could do is show the sampling rate and if an album is MQA before you play it. Pretty annoying to not know until you press play. And @ghosthouse yes I have been experiencing buffering also where I never had issues in the past just ... | |
| Curious about older "world class" D/A converters My DAC has the PCM63-K chip which is I believe a multibit R2R chip. | |
| Craigslist transaction went south... Taking legal action after 11 days seems awfully extreme did you try just offering his money back and taking the receiver back? | |
| Curious about older "world class" D/A converters Hi Mark I recently dropped a new, to me, Audio Note DAC-3 Signature that was built in 1995 into my system. It is by far the best sound I've ever had in my home. A good design and good execution will always come through regardless of whatever the l... | |
| Where to back up my library? I am using a Synology 214-play with two 4 TB drives in a hybrid RAID configuration. Those two drives are also backed up via Amazon Glacier's cloud service, its about $6 per month for my storage with is thus far around 640 GB. It can be bit slow to... | |
| Where were your audio components designed/engineered? I left out cables and accessories so:Cables:Siltech- HollandAuditorium 23- GermanyCerious Technology- USAExact Power Conidtioner- USAGregitek Footers- ItalyCombak/Harmonix Footers- Japan | |
| Have you ever met another audiogon member in person? I've had four in -person transactions all nice folks but brief meetings. I do have a local friend on here but we were friends before he discovered Audiogon so that doesn't really count I guess. | |
| How "Tribal" are we? Just because I like something doesn't mean someone else does or vice versa or that I am objectively right. I listen to exclusively tubes but I don't think SS is bad or wrong just different. I tend to favor more obscure brands but it doesn't mean b... | |
| Where were your audio components designed/engineered? Streamer Auralic Mini- ChinaAudio Note DAC- EnglandDeja Vu Preamp and Amp- USA (Virginia)JMlabs Mini Utopias- France | |
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