moonwatcher
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| Old phones as streaming sources Good enough for a garage system I guess. One issue is that at some point the phone will be so old that the O/S won’t support your streaming services apps, but by then you probably would have upgraded to something else. I tried this initially when... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? @reched go ahead and get the R7 Meta. Life is short. Enjoy, and don't look back. | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? Everyone has different wallets and use case scenarios. In general, if I’m buying bookshelf speakers for use in my den in the $1000 to $1500 range, I bought them without hearing, based on reviewers I’ve watched enough of to know what they like, i.e... | |
| shy about prices I guess the old adage about, "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it", applies in a lot of cases. But I'll still click on something I'm not sure of if it looks good. At The Music Room or Safe and Sound I find great looking stuff, then ... | |
| shy about prices It is aggravating not being able to quickly and easily find the price (even the MSRP) for a speaker. I have my price range ($4K to $8K) that I'm willing to spend, so don't waste my time telling me the virtues of some B.S. high tech reason a speak... | |
| Would you buy a pair of speakers by just looking at the measured freq. response? As @erik_squires said, frequency response is but ONE measure that is important. Maybe not the most important one either. But yeah, I look at frequency response curves to see if a speaker is jacked up in a range I don’t enjoy or if they’ve added a ... | |
| Why do I prefer R2R over Chip based DAC's? Generally the blurb you hear the most (at least from the YouTubers doing reviews) is that R2R (resistor ladder-based DACs) often sound more tonally correct with instruments and for some "unknown reason" offer a wider, more expansive soundstage and... | |
| What to do with dead equipment I would simply note that if "this stuff worked great for 25 years" then you have indeed gotten the use out of it. If only everything else worked as long in our disposable civilization. Amortization of price versus the number of years you got out o... | |
| Ripping CDs @sandthemall yes, the .wav standard, established a very long time ago, made no provision for holding any metadata. I guess CDs have the metadata (when they do have it) in an index file, called a "schema" in computer-speak. Streamer/rippers might d... | |
| Ripping CDs @sandthemall the reason I suggested FLAC or ALAC is to better natively contain any metadata instead of relying on some 3rd party database. If your streamer/ripper or his Vault has that then more power to you, but I just don't trust such solutions... | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz @p05129 I too was angry that Tidal didn’t honor their agreement with Best Buy’s customers and negated those who had already paid for a year’s subscription and forced us to start paying the full monthly price - without offering a discount for a yea... | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz The upshot is Tidal seems to be abandoning MQA and moving to FLAC. But for now, much of the catalog is still available in lossy MQA. I have Tidal but none of my DACs support MQA so I’m glad for this development. Also note that MQA has been rebrand... | |
| Ripping CDs Sadly yes, rvpiano, you will need a PC or a laptop. Most laptops and PCs these days don’t have CD drives in them so you also need to buy a USB CD drive. These are fairly inexpensive, around $30. Perhaps you could borrow a laptop from someone. dbPo... | |
| What to ask when buying used speakers? @mtbiker29 cats can shred grilles. Friend of mine made chicken wire cages around his ESS speakers back in the 1970s because of that. He spray painted them black so they didn't look all that bad with a stained hexagonal wooden base at the bottom. ... | |
| What to ask when buying used speakers? @bigtwin if only others would ship items like that. Wow. Most NEW speakers don't arrive in such good packaging. Wish they would. |