moonwatcher
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| Have you ever solved a high end audio issue using non-audio technology? Or, visa versa? On a lark I bought some vibration pads a friend had recommended from Diversified Products like you'd use for HVAC work mainly looking to use them under my vinyl turntables. I thought I'd try them under a CD player that skipped on loud bass notes... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered @deludedaudiophile "expecting" something is not the same as "proving" it. Now we have proof. Will it be something that might be useful? Maybe. Sometime. Engineering is after all "applied science". The better our understanding the better we can do... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered "This article has to do with how electrons move at very cold temperature. Alas, cables and tubes taken to cryogenic levels seem to affect the electrons to some level that is just being learned. Relax. " And people worry about their power bills if... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing Nothing wrong with it, but we know they aren’t getting say 500X "better" sound than from a pair of $2000 Polk R700 for their $1M. What they are getting (hopefully) are speakers that are a work of art, beautiful beyond imagination, ones that will f... | |
| Just got a new Bluesound Node. Very disappointed! To the original poster, I would return the B/S Node and perhaps try another one from another vendor to hopefully not get one from the same batch run. If it (the first one) is defective you’ll find out. Sadly this goes for nearly anything in manuf... | |
| Just got a new Bluesound Node. Very disappointed! Not to hijack this post, but obviously many of you on here have tried the gambit of low priced streamers up to ones far more than I could afford. My question is this: How do you think the sound quality of an iPAD feeding an external DAC via USB... | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Blade Runner by Vangelis was outstanding. [Aside: Wasn't there something about the soundtrack being "lost"? Was it found or recreated for the release of the album? Anyone know?] 2001: A Space Odyssey. The score helped make the film as much as an... | |
| Anyone have Warfedale Linton 85th anniversary? I don’t have them but came close to buying them last year (before they jumped 33% in price). What gave me pause was that more than one YouTube reviewer commented that the tweeter wasn’t very good and had a "grainy" sound to them even at modest vol... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @cleeds Indeed files altered with MQA are not "bit-perfect". That was Neil Young’s issue with the way they were advertising his music. If they were altered in anyway, then they weren’t HIS "studio masters". I wish MQA would go away. There’s been... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Amber Rubarth's version of REM's "Losing My Religion". | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @ghdprentice I read a posting on another forum by a guy (a musician) who had uploaded his files to Deezer and then downloaded them and he found they were indeed "bit-perfect" without any mumbo-jumbo changes. Perhaps Qobuz is the same. I like Ti... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @kray thank you. I may have to give Qobuz a try then. Just wish there was a "Qobuz Connect" app that streamers could have. Such an app makes life much easier when you can pass off the stream. Maybe one day... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES Doesn't Deezer provide "bit-perfect" data? At least at CD quality? I'd rather have CD quality that way than higher resolution files that have snake oil done to them. Is there anyway for us to know? Has anyone with proper equipment ever done a co... | |
| Turn down the Volume! Just wanted to note that this is one reason trying to compare speakers online on YouTube is at best a crapshoot. Is that honkiness you hear in the midrange or shrillness or grit in the tweeter always present in the speaker or are they overdriving ... | |
| Ditch your USB cable for Toslink? Might surprise you! Toslink is fine if you can deal with its designed limitations. A long time ago before Toslink became the "standard" for optical cables, there was a better, much higher bandwidth optical cable made by AT&T called AT&T Glass. Of course it ne... |