moonwatcher
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| 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... | |
| So I bought the Willsenton R-800i philgo01, for those of us with trepidations regarding service after the sale, if you buy these amps through Amazon (including the smaller brother R8 which I've been eyeing after hearing it drive some Lintons), you can buy a 3-year electronics warr... | |
| New Magnaplanar 1.7 delaminating and buzzing. Any company can have a bad run of parts, a batch of adhesives that don't meet specs, etc. One of the best motherboards I ever used was an ASUS, but after a year it starting having mystery problems. Turned out for a period of a few months of prod... | |
| Dynaudio - Made in China vs Denmark GoerTek – a consumer electronics company based in China – has announced it has acquired the majority of shares in Dynaudio (in 2014), the high-end speaker manufacturer founded in 1977. THEY OWN Dynaudio. Maybe they should change the name to "China... | |
| Vandersteen Forum Just wanted to mention that YouTuber Steve Gutenberg said he'll be reviewing some Vandersteen speakers (didn't say which ones) later this year. Should be interesting. He mentioned that he liked previous ones and has known the owner for years and... | |
| Politics and Music Yes, I do "get" Frank Zappa just fine. Been listening probably before you were born. A musician's political opinion is nearly worthless. The local plumber's or bricklayer guy's are probably better because they live in the REAL world, working 8... |