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| Animals and audiophiles This is generalizable to humans as well. Sometimes when I come home I just want to decompress listening to music for an hour or so but my recently retired wife wants to have some companionship. I used to come home before her and got used to my r... | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? In collage I was first exposed to at first mid Fi but what really grabbed my interest was when a friend got a job with real high end place. He let us come over a few times and bring our favorite albums. I still rember the McIntosh amps arrayed o... | |
| Robert Schumann The Symphonies The Szell set was my first, back in the seventies. My system wasn’t much then but those Columbia Odyssey discs had a really boxy, claustrophobic feel Very harsh treble and bloated bass. I had read that Szell, who was a control freak, was very inte... | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? So while we are shaming those who won’t post their systems, we might as well require people to update the photo every time they change a component. Heck there is one poster here that must go through about 40 DACs a year. I hope his camera is in ... | |
| Problems with the IFI Zen Stream.. What's a better Alternative? @treepmeyer I second this post. I had the same problem with the MiniDSP SHD. I had bought the Dirac,mini DSP combo, primarily to add Dirac to my system, and that has worked great. However at the time I decided to get the Dirac/Streamer c... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing Can you honestly remember the differences between them ? And especially if they have multiple filter options? I recently hauled a Denon SACD player out of storage that hadn’t been played for seven years and was surprised at how much better it so... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing How many hours do you actually listen to each DAC, with that kind of turnover? | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? Why is it hard to avoid responding to provocations? Didn’t people have mothers that taught them “If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything?” | |
| Hearing Aids Reduce Dementia Risk It’s easy to believe, as the isolation induced by deafness reduces the feedback that stimulates our brains in normal interactions. This isn’t the first study to suggest this. The great thing is that there are so many over the counter hearing a... | |
| Node X @dz13 Chromecast goes up to 24/96, AirPlay tops out at 24/48 | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? Looks like this thread has degenerated into a few people flinging invective at each other, as many threads tend to do. Pity because there are some interesting takes on interesting issues buried within. I posted my main system, but I think that... | |
| Streamer suggestions with both wireless and wired connections I owned the Node and the Vault and thought that they both sounded better wired. I had used computers for streaming prior to that and thought that the Bluesound sounded roughly equivalent, but I enjoyed having the computer out of the system and Bl... | |
| Digital music questions Apple Music sounds pretty good via Chromecast, definitely a step up from AirPlay. I think you need an Android Device to do this. I unsuccessfully tried to enable Chromecast on my iPad a while ago and couldn’t. I am guessing it’s an Apple vs Goo... | |
| Digital music questions @cmb13 You ask a lot of really great questions. I was using Qobuz for a couple of years. My wife really wanted to use Apple Music, and like you, I didn’t feel like paying for an extra subscription. I use the streaming service primari... | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... Richter could be disturbingly demonic as well. Try his “Bydlo” from the live Sofia (Bulgaria) recording of Pictures at An Exhibition. I have never heard anyone project the menace in that piece as he did. Or his numerous recordings of Beethoven’... |