jssmith
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| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I stream from a $180 Windows laptop using MusicBee through a Paradigm preamp using PlayFi on one system and through an SMSL DAC on another. However, I stream through an Amazon Echo to those same devices 90% of the time. Bits are bits. I don't worr... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. @rooze Calming?! The music young people listen to has never been calming. My first album was Black Sabbath. The song that turned me into an audiophile was Edgar Winter's Frankenstein. Hardly calming. Nor is it usually thought provoking. You ever... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. @rooze My point and the reason for posting was to discuss what, if anything, could be done differently to attract a younger audience. Why? They obviously aren't interested. They have too many other sources of entertainment that us old guys di... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. No surprise. Once the VCR came out it was inevitable. That started the parade of alternative couch-potato entertainment. And AI will exacerbate its demise. | |
| Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd. BT uses compression. Therefore, not the same as using a cable. | |
| Are all streamers the same? Bits are bits. But sometimes DAC designers screw that up. Floyd Toole's book is considered the science of audio. | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! I went a step further and went voice-controlled. Talk about convenience. I sold off most of my CDs a while ago. The LPs have been long gone. Even though I'm older I'm certainly not what I see typical for my age, and for most older generations ... ... | |
| When was the last time when serious new instrument was invented ? More on the AI front. I doubt if a new instrument will ever be invented. I've been going down the AI rabbit hole for a while, mostly for investment purposes but as a former software engineer I've gotten obsessed with the technology also, and I'm f... | |
| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? Us Boomers had a choice of in-home entertainment of three TV channels or listening to music, and later an Atari and a wired remote VHS that required you to drive to the store to use. And even though I'm retired now, I sit and listen far less becau... | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? Not a chance. The waste of extra property tax, heating and cooling, and maintenance would eat away at my peace of mind. In fact, I'm building a new house soon and it'll be in the 1800 sq. ft. vicinity. One good thing about living in areas that all... | |
| What is your front end ? Voice-activated Play-Fi streaming with Amazon Music HD. Dumped all my LPs and most of my CDs. | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo Cualli - Tiger Prowl (Electronic) Doobie Brothers - Steamer Lane Breakdown (Acoustic) Metallica - Sad But True (Drums) Oceans Of Slumber - The Banished Heart (Vocals) | |
| When was the last time when serious new instrument was invented ? It's already happening. There are AI music generators like Soundraw, Loudly and Suno. All AI requires is a frequency and timbre generator. Timbre can be sampled from any existing sound. Composition will take a little longer. At first it will all s... | |
| When was the last time when serious new instrument was invented ? Since electric guitar is two-component instrument, the Kemper profiler made guitar amps obsolete about 10 years ago. Other digital devices, by Neural and Fractal have expanded that transition. In live music almost no one uses a "real" amp anymore.... | |
| why expensive streamers You're not missing anything. This coming from a former software engineer with network experience. I think we're at a point where the last gasp of the marketeers is down to clocking (jitter), but as you point out the amount of information is not su... |