moonwatcher
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| Solo streamer Not wanting to whip a dead horse, but regardless of what streamer you buy, consider that in most cases, you need to connect it to an external DAC via an asynchronous connection (USB, I2S) in order for the likely better clock in the external DAC to... | |
| Anyone at home at Krell? +1 to @mark200mph's comment. The death of a founder can be especially difficult on a company. Did they have a succession plan in place? What direction do they want to go? Divorces have caused many companies to close, let alone the death of the one... | |
| A nightmare regarding streaming? I used a 3rd-party app called "Tunemymusic" to transfer my album list and playlists from Spotify to Tidal. I ended up subscribing to "Tunemymusic" on their monthly basis, but cancelled it before it renewed the following month after I’d already don... | |
| 1990 Radio Shack catalog Like most, I loved Radio Shack and found them indispensable for buying board level components for building projects well before the Internet was a "thing". My first stereo was an "All-In-One" box with separate speakers. It had an 8-track player/r... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? The question was, "How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound?" Well, I can listen on my ~$20K system at home or I can listen to a $200 JBL Charge3 Bluetooth speaker when I’m grilling steaks. I can still be happy with the sound from ea... | |
| How do I discharge the capacitors in my PS audio P20 ? Just curious. What "wire" came loose, and why? Was this a quality control issue with PS Audio? Wires "coming loose" in a power regenerator, having high voltages inside don't sound good. An end user who is not a legit electronics tech attempting to... | |
| Eversolo A6/A8 If the A6/A8 might be out of the running due to warranty or software issues, consider the less expensive option from FiiO, their R7. It does not offer a USB output though so be aware of that. John Darko did a review a few months ago and liked it ... | |
| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? It is a changing landscape. I'm 65 and enjoy my stereo system and speakers. My nephew is into jam bands (Goose, Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, Spafford) and enjoys listening to albums and recorded shows, but he mainly listens through a he... | |
| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? Given the file sizes, I wonder if DSD CAN be streamed via the Internet effectively? I mean, it can't be larger than 4K video can it? Then again many Americans and others worldwide don't have access to 300Mbps Internet either. Maybe DSD downloads... | |
| Tidal removing all MQA As others have noted on this forum, MQA was a "solution" to an Internet bandwidth problem that no longer exists. Its time as a lossy container for music has come and gone. Good. I have Tidal and will stick with them. I had Spotify and after they l... | |
| Thumper’s Mother I've been on here for a year or so now and find it mostly informative, even entertaining to read these posts. Generally they go like this: Someone asks for a recommendation on something for X number of dollars. A few posts will actually answer th... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 vs iPhone plugged directly to integrated amp - why no difference? @soix wrote, "Something’s wrong somewhere. I compared my iPad into my DAC (using Qobuz) bypassing its internal DAC, and my relatively modest iFi Zen Stream sounded much better as a streaming source. I can only imagine the iPad being even worse if ... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i @drmuso, Thanks for those insights. Yes, I've heard others (on YouTube) say the Eversolo AM6 is somewhat "bright" or "analytical" sounding (but that the more expensive AM8 is a bit more neutral). I think I'd be using an external DAC in any case -... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i The Node was the one that put streaming on the map for many people, especially those not willing to waste hours of time building a Raspberry Pi device and hoping for the best and jumping through hoops to set up Volumio or one of the other O/Ses. A... | |
| Are your speakers losing air? The nature of the beast. Most center channel speakers are more or less "regular" speakers turned 90 degrees on their sides, so yes, there's bound to be issues with dispersion. You might get them to sound great to you, sitting in the sweet spot, bu... |