moonwatcher
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| Leave it on? I would go by whatever the manufacturer recommends. Generally, I leave most of my gear "on" or in "standby". If I owned a Class A solid state or tube amp, I'd likely turn it off in the summer to keep from heating up the room too much but might le... | |
| Have some fun with bookshelf monitors!! If you only had $1000 or less, then I'd get the relatively new Triangle Borea BR04 bookshelf speakers. They have a better crossover than the BR03, and are a bit larger, and play down to 44Hz in room. I got a pair for a steal and love them for what... | |
| Qobuz vs Airplay John Darko did a deep dive into Airplay a few months ago. It is lossy. At best it provides 320Kbps .aac files and often goes to less than that depending on how close you are and other factors. A very long time ago when Airplay first came out, it w... | |
| Why the huge increase in the price of Sonus Farber Amanti G5 speakers. I remember a video a year or two ago by Paul McGowan of PS Audio saying his son had SF speakers, but Paul said they were NOT "audiophile" to him, meaning they didn’t provide all the detail he considered important. Nothing against SF. They sure are... | |
| Vinyl-sourced files at Tidal (how common for stream services?) While these might indeed have been rips from an LP, keep in mind that after CDs had been around awhile, some idiot producers and engineers thought it would be "nostalgic and cute" to add in some vinyl noise (surface noise, snaps, crackles, and pop... | |
| Vinyl-sourced files at Tidal (how common for stream services?) I echo @cleeds here. All of these streaming services get whatever files the record labels send them - and we have to hope they aren't mislabeled by the labels as to providence. I've "helped" Tidal out more than once when an album wasn't correct in... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? My old Acoustic Research AR 9 speakers sounded great in the 1980s. But they need some work now. The old Callins capacitors are shot. I'm fortunate I found a local guy who specializes in rebuilding/refurbishing Polk Audio speakers and is willing to... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Ah, because of all the negative comments I had to check out Edith Piaf on Tidal as I had never heard of her. Whoa! Bad - but not any worse than Joan Baez with that vibrato making her sound like a cassette played on a deck needing the rollers clean... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? @mylogic I looked it up and found this, so I assume it was this JJ guy: Austrian performer Johannes Pietsch won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night while Israel's Yuval Raphael came second after a tense showdown at the Grand Final ... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? The Decemberists. Way too whiny vocals. Can’t stand them. Sound like they ought to be in a Monty Python sketch. I can take Bjork! for a few songs, but not very many at one time. Her vocal gymnastics are just too hard on the ears. She makes Kate ... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? I agree with what most have said. Generally, an open high end that doesn't sound muffled or rolled off at all. My ears only hear up to about 12.5KHz now, but even I can hear "air". I notice it very much when comparing concert recordings done wi... | |
| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical Then there is the issue that many say R2R DACs in the $2K to $3K range are soft sounding and don't have punchy bass, even if they have great natural tone and a nice body to that tone and a deeper soundstage. That often seems to be the main qualifi... | |
| Best Cheap DAC Streamer WiiM Ultra or Bluesound Node Nano, both well under $400. The WiiM Ultra has more features (some of which you likely will never use), but the Nano (according to some reviewers) has slightly better sound. I just recently bought the WiiM Ultra and ... | |
| Qobuz Connect Launched Yesterday @drmuso if your streamer has a built-in app that allows the URL of the stream to be passed directly to the streamer and bypass your phone or computer or tablet, then you are set already. You are using the external device as only a remote control i... | |
| Qobuz Connect Launched Yesterday For those not understanding, these "connect" apps, when implemented and supported on the streamer, allow you to pass off the URL of the stream directly to your streamer such that it is no longer going through your cellphone or iPAD or computer. Yo... |