mahler123
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| 8 Reasons why you should buy an $50,000 DAC OP you are feeling guilty about spending that kind of $ on a component and looking for validation from other audiophiles to assuage that guilt. It reminds me of an alcoholic who seeks justification for their behavior from cronies in a tave... | |
| Changing Of The Guard at McIntosh Has Bose released a Wave table radio with Mac Meters yet? | |
| Streamer vs. Cart upgrade (here we go again…) No brainer. Bluetooth sucks. Comparing analog to Bluetooth is like comparing a 67 Mustang Convertible to a Yugo rusting away in a trash heap | |
| Streamer / network transport with hdmi in Bryston formerly made these, but I have been told that they dropped HDMI. Also their software interface was awful | |
| What would you do? For $1500 you can buy a pretty decent new table and cartridge. Presumably being new you are less likely to run into issues with parts pooping out due to age, and there have been enough advances in manufacturing to take advantage of. However lo... | |
| Converting Vinyl to Digital Probably 15 years ago I used a Pro-Ject phono preamp with a usb out to my MacBook and used some free software to remove surface noise, etc. Back then many LPs in my genre still had not been digitalized or were available only as MP3’s. I did a... | |
| Streamers rabbit hole I have been happy with Cambridge Audio streamers, but the OP apparently was not. | |
| God, I hate to ask this… Sorry to hear about the OP Health Issues. This topic has been discussed here and it’s time to face reality, which is that most of the world doesn’t value physical media or the boxes that play them. The sensible thing to do is acknowledge that... | |
| Maybe someone can enlighten me. @abnerjack I can’t imagine that this forum makes a lot of money. Perhaps the guests at a dinner party analogy, think of this place as a barely solvent convenience store, prone to attracting trouble making teenagers that scare away cash spend... | |
| Maybe someone can enlighten me. @newton_john Have you never been mellow? | |
| The law of diminshing returns? As written , @ghdprentice post doesn’t deny that there is an asymptote, but rather that some individuals are willing to spend limitless amounts of money to get every last drop of sonic benefit. Those people are entitled to do that and I am not ... | |
| I stream 24/7. Do you? Streaming can be wireless or wired. With respect to $/SQ ratio you will get umpteen opinions here. IMO it’s equivalent to CD; if you have a CD Player that costs say $1K you need to spend about the same on a streamer to get equivalent quality. An... | |
| Does anyone own a tri amped system in Florida I could hear? The best place to do the experiment would be a high end dealer that would have the patience to work with the OP. Such stores are of course hard to find, but given the amount of money that is concentrated in the state of Florida, there has to be o... | |
| Qobuz Connect My experience with Qobuz CS is the same as Flash56, so I wouldn’t single him out for being a cranky outlier. I think the streaming services figure it’s cheaper to have disgruntled customers than to attempt to support them | |
| Just got a pair of Apple AirPod Pro 2’s for my birthday For much less $ Jabbra sound better and have better noise cancellation. You pay extra $ for the Apple Factor |