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| The Psychology Of Collecting Are collecting and hoarding the same thing? There are some members here that have every single reissue of a favorite record album. That’s collecting. Hoarding would be having a home filled with cases of T.P., or so filled with random junk that ... | |
| John Mayall has passed away I didn’t mean any disrespect, but when I plugged JM name into a search engine (I hadn’t heard his name in 50 years or so), the SE spat out an article on Toots etc. another example of AI run amok. That gave me a laugh. I remember someone in my ... | |
| The Psychology Of Collecting My mother in law died recently and we have been cleaning the home out to get it on the market. She wasn’t a hoarder, thankfully, but we have interviewed different Estate Sales vendors and some of the stories they tell about homes that they have b... | |
| Streamer observation / question to those who know I disagree with Jason . Many high resolution FLAC and in particular well done DSD will sound notably open and realistic than Redbook. This however is a generalization. If the original recording isn’t up to par playing it in a higher resolution ... | |
| John Mayall has passed away I really enjoyed Toots and the Mayalls | |
| Sony or Panasonic 4K Player vs. Magnetar or Reavon Universal Player If you are waiting for the 105 to die it might be a long wait. If the priority is for video I would spend a few hundred for a nifty Blu Ray player that isn’t a Universal Player. If you play SACD/DVD-A/Blu Ray Audio continue to use the Oppo 105 u... | |
| Solo streamer I think that AirPlay on the Cambridge streamer is very good-and Chromecast is excellent-but given the price differential between the Aurender and the CA I would have hoped that they would at least been equivalent in AirPlay | |
| New Esoteric K-03XD A really good SACD player should also enhance plain vanilla red book CDs | |
| Solo streamer Hopefully the shipping snafu doesn’t enter into the time you have with the unit before you decide if you want to return it. Issues like this always negatively impact my evaluation of a component because my emotions get involved. Of course it s... | |
| Are Marantz and Bowers & Wilkens becoming pawns in Masimo's internal fight? Interesting thread, even if no one is participating in it. I haven’t bought a Denon or Marantz component in years but I can’t see how letting these companies atrophy due to corporate greed is a good thing for audio | |
| AI-Written Stereophile Articles Like, could people cite specific articles that they view as suspicious? | |
| DCS Sending Legal Notice To Reviewer (Golden Sound) Over an Old Review of Their Bartok DAC @viridian + 1 | |
| DCS Sending Legal Notice To Reviewer (Golden Sound) Over an Old Review of Their Bartok DAC It’s really a convoluted I said you said. Having read the dCS response I would note: 1) they admit that they sent intimidating emails 2) the make many references to demands made by their legal counsel, and deadlines set to meet those demands. ... | |
| A DAC for the Oppo 105 I’ve been using a 105 for years. I have had 2 external DACs with it. The first was a Mytek Manhatten, and currently a Bryston DAC 3. I especially value the HDMI inputs on the Bryston and output the DSD layer of SACDs with the 105. The intern... | |
| Solo streamer @cleeds I used a company that networks small offices for Ethernet wiring. An electrician can do it but there are so many companies that do this for IT and are less expensive. |