moonwatcher
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| Bluesound Node versions SQ I’d price out buying a used Node and a LPS, but compare that (and risks involved in tearing into it unless you have a little electronics experience) with just buying the Node 132 for $549 and being done with it. It has a better power supply per Bl... | |
| Question about high current amps versus "not high current amps" I just wish that speaker manufacturers who make speakers requiring high current amps with amazing damping factors to simply recommend a few amps. It doesn't have to be an endorsement exactly but give a few examples and say, "high current amplifier... | |
| Streamer + DAC help: Bluesound vs Eversolo (vs Others) The new Bluesound line up of Nano, Node, and Icon have gotten some great reviews with some saying even the $299 Nano sounds better than the old Node and Node X by an easy to hear margin. So, I'd imagine the Node 132 and Icon would be very good, as... | |
| Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"? @blackbag20 that has me trying to evaluate whether feeding a WiiM Ultra into an external DAC via USB would sound as good as say using the new Node N132 into the same external DAC via USB? I know people swear that upscale $$$ streamers by Auralic,... | |
| Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"? I hear you, but as others have said, Windows 7 has been dead a very long time. I hate it, but I have three computers and one laptop all running Windows 10 and NONE of them can officially be upgraded to Windows 11, so come October, they’ll be heade... | |
| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? The issues are multi-faceted. Some speakers really do need to be played at a certain level before they "come alive" like Frampton. EQ can help your perception of certain frequencies, but if your speakers "don't sing" at lower levels with a decent ... | |
| Streamer apps critical One thing to mention, is that unless I can use a "connect" app like Tidal Connect to pass the URL directly to it, I'm not interested in a streamer. It is a pity that those with deep pockets like Apple and Amazon don't create these "connect" apps f... | |
| Streamer apps critical @ghdprentice that is scary to contemplate that so many of the apps we and banks, and other outfits use are patched together so randomly. I remember way, way back in the 1970s, they taught us to add comment lines to all our code with the idea that ... | |
| Is anyone here still into live concerts these days? @goodlistening64 nope. I’m not talking about background vocals but rather the main vocals supposedly being sung by Taylor Swift during her shows. Look, I don’t have a dog in this hunt. She is not my cup of tea and I haven’t bought any of her albu... | |
| Is anyone here still into live concerts these days? @allenf1963 I live north of Charlotte, near Statesville. We are indeed blessed with several good sounding venues for live music in this area within 2- or 3-hours driving distance. Not bad. MSG in NYC was always special. Would love to see Radio Cit... | |
| Is anyone here still into live concerts these days? I rarely go to large venue (20,000 seat and larger) shows. The disconnect between seeing the band playing is just too much. Don’t get me wrong, I went to plenty of them in the decades past, from Pink Floyd, many Grateful Dead shows, Phish, Widespr... | |
| Streamer apps critical @ghdprentice point well taken. I do wonder just for the heck of it, what computer language is used these days for most of these streaming apps. Is it something like Python or do they still use C++ or something entirely different? My days of progr... | |
| Which subwoofer should I get? Just so you know, SVS makes an $80 adapter that does allow you to use speaker level inputs if you have to or want to use that option. SVS SoundPath Speaker Level Subwoofer Adapter | |
| Streamer apps critical What is freaky is that a relatively young startup, WiiM, came out of nowhere with a cheap streamer ($99) and over a few months, listening to user feedback, developed their software to the point that it is even better than BlueOS or at least very c... | |
| SVS SUB BETTER WITH LOW PASS FILTER OFF I’m not 100% sure but it sounds like you might have been double ganging the filtering. You say your subwoofer output from your preamp or amp is 80 dbs, I think you might have meant 80Hz. If so, in most cases you would NOT need the low pass filter ... |