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| do players like Foobar improve sound of internet Also realize that if you start off with a clunker streamer/player, nothing much else you do in a traditional sense to tweak the sound will help much, including a better DAC or connection to source. So there is potential to waste a lot of time and ... | |
| do players like Foobar improve sound of internet RL,Have you tried them all? With all possible configuration options?Choose your analogy but I can assure you as a software/systems engineer with many years of experience that anything is possible and the specific reasons why there is a difference ... | |
| External Drive Help I have been running reliably with Seagate external USB drives for a few years now and can easily recommend those. Mine came with decent backup software pre-installed which is a nice bonus. | |
| Rock and roll speakers? Ray I see you have Magnepan and Klipsch. That would seem to have all the bases covered pretty well. I had Maggies for years and listened to everything on them. I would not call them "rock and roll" speakers though. I just heard the latest and grea... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Well, let's not jump to conclusions. I hope that's the case, but time will tell. There are many reasons why one thing may sound better than another case by case. No doubt sending the amp to an expert with the right knowledge and tools to get to th... | |
| Rock and roll speakers? "If the speaker is good for one genre, its good for another, plain and simple"I agree with that. I think the questions come more from teh perspective of finding speakers on a limited budget that will tend to have more performance limitations. In t... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state "Actually Mapman this is not entirely true."How many things are when it comes to good sound?I'll agree avoiding clipping altogether is always a good goal. Things will still not sound the same but if things are done even halfway well otherwise you ... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Hmm, well let's be real and not exaggerate.Any good quality amp delivering just a few watts will clip and distort sooner than one of similar good quality with more watts, all else aside. Its just a matter of when and how. I don't think this point ... | |
| do players like Foobar improve sound of internet Player software makes perhaps the single biggest difference in how music streamed from the internet sounds. Anything and everything both good and bad is possible depending on the software used to stream. It's even a bigger divergence potential tha... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state All depends on the system built around them. Tubes or transistors alone can't make any sound.The best of both tend to sound more similar than different at least when not distorting. Its when they distort that things become different, but we wouldn... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... I will say a Mi Sheberakh prayer of healing for the amp tonight. | |
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| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? Low I didn't have time to compare in detail including noise levels but both sounded quite good. Pharoah is 3X the price and a good bit larger so to be expected. My dealer who traditionally sells a lot of reasonably pricey tube gear indicated the P... | |
| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? Got to hear the Sphinx and pharaoh yesterday. Liked them both very much. Both were a bit larger than I expected but we're a lot of quality product for the dollar. Am considering downsizing my second system to an integrated and the rogues checked a... | |
| Vintage Receiver: TANDBERG, MARANTZ, or…? Yes, Nikko had a lot of very listenable gear back in teh 70's.My choice of receiver that I owned for many years back then was a Hitachi sr804 Class G receiver. IT was a very well made piece. The Class G design enabled more power in a smaller packa... |