moonwatcher
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| Are advances in technology making speakers better? @mijostyn I did get to hear the large Advent at a small mom and pop stereo store near NC State in the late 1970s or early 1980s. All us poor students lusted after those and the ones from maybe Polk that looked like large coffins. We half expected ... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? @grislybutter ah yes. I keep my phones for at least 5 years before moving on, even though others may chuckle at me. The only reason to upgrade is when it can't run the apps you want or because the new versions of software simply aren't written wel... | |
| Turntable question; Does Audio Technica make any good turntables? The Audio Technica LP120 and LP140 seem to be pretty popular. For ~$500 and under there isn’t a whole lot more you can expect, (at least they aren't Crosleys) so they are definitely good turntables for the money. Only caveat is that a few years ag... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? Technology HAS made speakers better. Today's modest bookshelf speakers are light years ahead of most bookies say of 40 years ago. But the basic technology used most often (a flapping piece of paper driven by a magnetic motor) hasn't changed. Howe... | |
| Disappearing Jazz? Medeski, Martin & Wood - Start with the very accessible Shack-man, then try the others. Great jazz since the 1990s....especially if you crave some Hammond B3. | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @pixhead yes, I saw that. Watched it twice to write down the albums he used for reference so I could check them out. The size doesn’t bother me, (I’m living with some vintage AR9 speakers) but it seems dumb that MoFi can spend whatever money they ... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @travisg he seemed impressed. Perhaps he didn't want to come across as a "cheerleader" given his friendship with Andrew. Then again, he has been living with those "new reference" open baffle speakers for a bit now, and maybe he's finding it harder... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @grislybutter thanks for the comparisons. I note that it is more akin to the JBL L100 Classic which is 15.38"W x 25.06"H x 14.63"D, and JBL of course offers their custom stands for $330. I too thought it almost comical looking on those Solidsteel ... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @grislybutter a bit into the video with cheapaudioman, he vaguely sort of mentions that MoFi will have some custom stands for them and even an angled piece for anyone wanting to use one of these horizontally as a center channel speaker too that wo... | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers @soix Thanks. I might consider that Wi-Fi extender (especially one that can do 2600 Mbps). Appreciate it. I hope it works well for you and eliminates aggravation. Would be best though if iFi would update their devices to work better on Wi-Fi in t... | |
| DAC’s Good suggestions all around, but at the end of the day, the OP would do good to actually audition something in his system, live with it a few days, then decide. No matter how good something sounds in one person's system and room, it may sound wor... | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers @temmple what DAC did you end up pairing with the Zen Stream? To your ears does the Zen Stream feeding that DAC sound better than the Node feeding the same DAC? How would you characterize the sonic difference? Does it have something to do with th... | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers @cwatters0 on paper at least the Zen NEO Stream looks great, a reasonable jump from a Bluesound Node (as it should be at over twice the cost). The onboard DAC seems to offer a lot, even outputting DSD files directly to analog without first convert... | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers @cwatters0 I've not heard it, I was only offering that software observation based on a YouTube video I watched that stated that it did run the same software as the Zen. When I heard that, I stopped watching. I don't have an easy or elegant way t... | |
| A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers @rudyb thanks for that link. It will help me teach some friends about setting up JRiver...Cool. |