moonwatcher
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| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? It is a changing landscape. I'm 65 and enjoy my stereo system and speakers. My nephew is into jam bands (Goose, Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, Spafford) and enjoys listening to albums and recorded shows, but he mainly listens through a he... | |
| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? Given the file sizes, I wonder if DSD CAN be streamed via the Internet effectively? I mean, it can't be larger than 4K video can it? Then again many Americans and others worldwide don't have access to 300Mbps Internet either. Maybe DSD downloads... | |
| Tidal removing all MQA As others have noted on this forum, MQA was a "solution" to an Internet bandwidth problem that no longer exists. Its time as a lossy container for music has come and gone. Good. I have Tidal and will stick with them. I had Spotify and after they l... | |
| Thumper’s Mother I've been on here for a year or so now and find it mostly informative, even entertaining to read these posts. Generally they go like this: Someone asks for a recommendation on something for X number of dollars. A few posts will actually answer th... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 vs iPhone plugged directly to integrated amp - why no difference? @soix wrote, "Something’s wrong somewhere. I compared my iPad into my DAC (using Qobuz) bypassing its internal DAC, and my relatively modest iFi Zen Stream sounded much better as a streaming source. I can only imagine the iPad being even worse if ... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i @drmuso, Thanks for those insights. Yes, I've heard others (on YouTube) say the Eversolo AM6 is somewhat "bright" or "analytical" sounding (but that the more expensive AM8 is a bit more neutral). I think I'd be using an external DAC in any case -... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i The Node was the one that put streaming on the map for many people, especially those not willing to waste hours of time building a Raspberry Pi device and hoping for the best and jumping through hoops to set up Volumio or one of the other O/Ses. A... | |
| Are your speakers losing air? The nature of the beast. Most center channel speakers are more or less "regular" speakers turned 90 degrees on their sides, so yes, there's bound to be issues with dispersion. You might get them to sound great to you, sitting in the sweet spot, bu... | |
| Dirty little secret of Pedigreed, decades old Speaker line - no one will address Well, at least they don’t use staples to hold the speaker together...LOL. If they are getting the frequency response and transient response from aluminum that they want, then why bother ever changing it? They have invested heavily in the process. ... | |
| What are the circular discs people use on components? Most people use the door stoppers not for any "resonance" damping, but merely (as John Darko showed in many of his YouTube videos from two years ago) to hold lightweight components like streamers and DACs in place such that the weight of the cable... | |
| Shocked. Need Opinions. How muck power do I need? Great points made by everyone: Current, slew rates, transient power reserves, damping rates, bass control, not sweating low impedances, and being "musical". But there is something about a large amp just idling along happy at putting out 40W to 10... | |
| Is there a cheaper alternative to this: How about the JS-120 from JBL that are for their L-100 Classic speakers? Note they’d only save you around $50. Yes, look at Etsy. Or if you are handy and have woodworking equipment you could make some from wood that would do the job just fine. Ke... | |
| Denafrips Pontus *15th* ? @chocaholic and @painter24 thank you! | |
| Denafrips Pontus *15th* ? @painter24 when you get more time to evaluate it (and after say 50 to 100 hours are on it) please let us know if the Pontus 15th or whatever it is has more bass definition (or "slam") than the Ares II. I’m on the fence about getting an R2R DAC but... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? WAV files are so old that there was never a schema developed for them to hold metadata internally. FLAC is merely a "container" for the WAV files having more robust places in the design (schema) to hold metadata, things like track name, number, a... |