moonwatcher
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| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Upscale Audio currently has Tannoy on sale, some are "seconds" that might have undetectable scratches in places you'd likely not see. Apparently, Kevin got in a bunch of Tannoy last year that needed rework and got so mad about it, that he has swit... | |
| Directional wires/cables Not B.S. They explain it if you’d just read the instructions. Worlds Best Cables simply say this: These Quad RCA cables are configured as directional cables, we strongly believe that this is the most appropriate topology for best performance and s... | |
| Why are DAC's so much more expensive than transports? I find it interesting that we want transports to be "truth tellers", reading the data from a CD, SACD, a hard drive, SSD, or from the Internet and output that data exactly as it was intended, bit for bit, and have reasonable timing in the data to ... | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers At least you won't have to worry that when you die, your wife will sell your stereo gear for what you told her you paid for it. | |
| Bluesound Node versions SQ @grunge1000 we all bemoan the lack of very many younger people getting into this hobby beyond their cellphones and earbuds or maybe Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones, so when a young 20-something coworker, who has backed into this hobby via ho... | |
| Bluesound Node versions SQ @soix don't shoot the messenger. I'm merely asking a technical "why?". I also believe the old axiom that a fool and his money are soon parted if they aren't at least a bit skeptical. I'm not arguing with you or anyone else on DACs. They obviously ... | |
| Bluesound Node versions SQ @soix I’m an engineer. Show me the money (measurements). If I send a data stream of 01001101 and another streamer does the same to the exact same external DAC, and that external DAC is doing buffering and reclocking of the data stream such that ji... | |
| Bluesound Node versions SQ I’d price out buying a used Node and a LPS, but compare that (and risks involved in tearing into it unless you have a little electronics experience) with just buying the Node 132 for $549 and being done with it. It has a better power supply per Bl... | |
| Question about high current amps versus "not high current amps" I just wish that speaker manufacturers who make speakers requiring high current amps with amazing damping factors to simply recommend a few amps. It doesn't have to be an endorsement exactly but give a few examples and say, "high current amplifier... | |
| Streamer + DAC help: Bluesound vs Eversolo (vs Others) The new Bluesound line up of Nano, Node, and Icon have gotten some great reviews with some saying even the $299 Nano sounds better than the old Node and Node X by an easy to hear margin. So, I'd imagine the Node 132 and Icon would be very good, as... | |
| Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"? @blackbag20 that has me trying to evaluate whether feeding a WiiM Ultra into an external DAC via USB would sound as good as say using the new Node N132 into the same external DAC via USB? I know people swear that upscale $$$ streamers by Auralic,... | |
| Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"? I hear you, but as others have said, Windows 7 has been dead a very long time. I hate it, but I have three computers and one laptop all running Windows 10 and NONE of them can officially be upgraded to Windows 11, so come October, they’ll be heade... | |
| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? The issues are multi-faceted. Some speakers really do need to be played at a certain level before they "come alive" like Frampton. EQ can help your perception of certain frequencies, but if your speakers "don't sing" at lower levels with a decent ... | |
| Streamer apps critical One thing to mention, is that unless I can use a "connect" app like Tidal Connect to pass the URL directly to it, I'm not interested in a streamer. It is a pity that those with deep pockets like Apple and Amazon don't create these "connect" apps f... | |
| Streamer apps critical @ghdprentice that is scary to contemplate that so many of the apps we and banks, and other outfits use are patched together so randomly. I remember way, way back in the 1970s, they taught us to add comment lines to all our code with the idea that ... |