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| Network Acoustics Muon ethernet filtering system - Improving streaming sound quality Thanks for sharing @thyname - I am glad the muon Pro is sounding good in your system. Am I correct in understanding that your positive comments are based on the muon Pro being your first Network Acoustics product, and not an upgrade from the muon... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Audioslave Foo Fighters Revivalists | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? Can speakers that are great at dynamics and drive also excel at detail and nuance? | |
| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? So the common theme here seems to be go listen! That is one thing we lost in the transition from dealer networks to direct sales - teh ability go simply go listen. When I could first afford to actually go buy a system, I listened at several deal... | |
| Metrum Acoustics owners experience I actually owned the Octave II, and forgot because before the trial period was over I purchased the Hex from the same dealer and returned the O2. With those earlier DACs they just got better as you moved up the line - better tone, body, dynamics,... | |
| Metrum Acoustics owners experience The Metrum Acoustics DACs are R2R non-oversampling DACs and although that is not a new way of doing things, Metrum were somewhat early to visibly market that format when, at the time, a primary goal of DAC designers was to make a DAC that didn't s... | |
| Ethernet opinions @audphile1 5. Amazon CAT8 is a really great cable for the money I agree, it seems well constructed. That is what I use, and what I was pointing the OP to in my earlier post. If I were starting, I would be happy with that for Ethernet cablin... | |
| Ethernet opinions You are welcome. Just sharing my experiences. Two of the things I like most about a streamer/server set-up are how easy it is to operate and the wide range of music available that I wouldn't have otherwise found out about. Just yesterday, I lear... | |
| Ethernet opinions I have tried a lot of this streaming add-on stuff and my suggestion would be to simply hardwire an Ethernet cable to your streamer and then listen for a while and think about whether the sound meets your expectations. There is always more stuff t... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much @kennyc I’d have to side with the seller as having more weight. To choose otherwise would seem to enslave the seller to the buyer’s expectations at the seller’s expense. I would say, it depends. In the short term, then maybe yes. However, any... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? @kokakolia Success in the audio bizz seems to come from marketing, marketing, marketing... Just produce something decent and hype it to the max. The marketing gold standard seems to be those companies that not only effectively market a produc... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? Why spend all this energy speculating and judging what others should be thinking or doing like some sort of social crusade? Those manufacturers are likely making exactly the choices they want to make. Anyone who doesn’t agree is free to spend th... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much $15,990 is the list price of the Brinkman Taurus. B&M audio sales is no picnic these days, but it is not your responsibility to support a dealer that doesn't understand how to make spending $16K a rewarding and fun experience for their custo... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? "these people are not millionaires in any sense" Uh, assuming their houses are mostly paid off, actually they are millionaires, based on the commonly used definition: a person whose assets are worth one million dollars or more More interest... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? As an example, Samsung, like most manufacturers, does not price televisions based on their internal parts, manufacturing, marketing, and shipping costs. Many items, and particularly luxury items, are priced (at least in part) based on what the ma... |