mdalton
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| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? @mapman there are many degrees of privilege, it’s not binary. Both my wife and I have worked extraordinarily hard all our lives to achieve the levels of success we have. My wife was “privileged” to attend a wonderful public school in Fairfax Co... | |
| How to find local audiophiles Start with music first. I am incredibly fortunate to have two neighbors - each literally two doors away! - who enjoy jazz, like me (though not our only musical interest). About 10-12 years ago I went up to one of their doors on a late Saturday a... | |
| Sold Sold Sold @ozzy62 “Your ilk”? That’s the opposite of woke my friend. | |
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| Sold Sold Sold I think you “best stay woke” when you deal with the OP. | |
| Sold Sold Sold Yes, the term “woke” means being tolerant and open to others, including those from different cultures. Cool fact is it was originally coined by Huddie Ledbetter (aka, Leadbelly). He used it in a song in reference to the 1931 case in Alabama wher... | |
| Sold Sold Sold @inna Not sure what alternative facts you’re smoking (assuming you’ve actually read the thread). Just on the basis of the actual email exchanges, the seller comes off as a gentleman, someone who went out of his way to help a potential buyer, ev... | |
| I am sad nope, can’t call the attache or the ambassador - they’ve recently been fired. | |
| What should I upgrade next in my system? one other thought: if your primary source is youtube, that’s compressed, lossy audio, so you shouldn’t spend a ton on a DAC, IMHO. But you’ll probably be able to hear substantial improvement spending less than $1000. | |
| What should I upgrade next in my system? Am no Apple TV expert, but if you’re streaming videos, you can use an external dac for the audio portion but you’ve got to use the apple tv streamer for the video portion (I think). You can get a better streamer for Quobuz and Tidal, but of cours... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @kerrybh I have similar views. Product types for which I have a healthy amount of skepticism include power conditioning, high-cost streamers, and network switches (omg!). Manufacturer claims regarding their low noise levels, jitter immunity, e... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @knownothing Amir’s conclusion actually says “So if you have audible mains related interference that is above a few hundred Hertz, then the PSM156 may have an effect”, which is decidedly less dogmatic than my friend @samureyex. If you read Amir... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @samureyex Think you may have intended your post referencing the Dave for someone else. I don’t have one. Regarding your post about the Puritan, you left out what mattered in Amir’s conclusions, which contained no inconsistencies. Here’s ... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @samureyex Well, I notice that you only responded to one of my 3 examples, lol! But with respect to DACs, I think each of the measurements is intended to reflect some specific aspect of sound. Whether you like that quality is of course up to ... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. @samureyex While I wouldn’t characterize myself as “ an ASR supporter”, I do think ASR has provided valuable insight in several areas. 1) DACs - Providing consistent measurements for every DAC they test is helpful, though as others have sugge... |