moonwatcher
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| on the cheap +6 for any WiiM product. The WiiM Mini (hockey puck design) is reputed to have a "thicker, darker sound" than the WiiM Pro or Pro Plus so I'd choose one of those instead and call it a day. The great thing about the WiiM's are their software. So ea... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner @davey and @aberyclark that's what I'd like to see. A "mid-priced" model offering the higher power of the Degritter without as many bells and whistles. I already have a decent homemade vacuum RCM so I can use it to rinse and dry the records after... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner @lewm whoever told you that was incorrect. Ultrasonic machines are indeed "ultrasonic" unless you are a bat. The cheap ones operate at 40KHz, the more expensive ones at 120KHz. From YourSoundMatters dot com: "The Degritter doesn’t come cheap at... | |
| Volume levels @cleeds +1 This was demonstrated by John Darko on his YouTube channel. Recently remastered digital versions of an album had far less dynamic range than the original LP. Yes as others note, in theory, CDs can have a dynamic range of 96 dB, but tha... | |
| InnuOS Sense 2.6.0. @thyname Tidal "Max" is their streaming service tier that offers at least CD quality (16-bit/44.1KHz) files, and for roughly 10% of their catalog, it offers higher resolution streams at up to 24-bit/192KHz. Like John Darko often says on his YouT... | |
| 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... |