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| Budget tower speakers that rock! Another vote for Zu Dirty weekend.The capacitors can be upgraded in the event your tastes change and you end up seeking a little more refinement or accuracy.They're super efficient... 97db..so yes, they'll give you LOUD.60 day satisfaction guarantee. | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? When you use a Node 2i, it does the streaming.You have a Bluesound app for managing your music and what you play over wifi, but you aren't streaming from your handheld device, so you don't degrade the sound with Bluetooth or Airplay. My Node 2i is... | |
| RIP - Aretha Franklin How can a walrus hold a gun? | |
| How old are you? 65Saw Beatles, Stones, Herman's Hermits live on Ed Sullivan.Saw The Who, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, to name a few, live at local venues.Bought my first mid-fi system in 1972 and have been enjoying music on a... | |
| I was told to put Kitty Litter in my new speaker stands. Was he joking? Tvad: That's the Spirit! | |
| Are Shakti Stones effective? How does one calculate the optimum weight for a Shakti stone? Is it the inversely exponential value of the delta of the compliance of the top cover of the CD transport?Perhaps an unabridged Shakti reference manual (hard bound, of course) could be ... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i digital output problems... Do you have another digital source that you can plug into the same ports to see if both channels are present? If so...sounds like a Node 2i issue.I used the internal DAC for a few months, but ended up using a slightly better DAC connected via opti... | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? My Node 2i has worked great from day 1.It's connected to a gigabyte switch with cat7 cable (yeah, I know cat8 is available now).My devices include Windows 10 and Android OS, so I can't comment on the Apple iterations. Since the Node 2i does the st... | |
| Any Bluesound Node2 owners Kveteran, The official fix for the "Northern Lights" emanating from the NIC on the back side of the Node 2/2i is some carefully placed electrical tape. | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? Mahgister,Another good album.I didn't know I liked trumpet so much.Thanks again! | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? mahgister, Thanks for the Kenny Wheeler reference!The Widow in The Window is great!Looking forward to hearing the rest of the album tonight. | |
| Where are the cheap home streamers? I'm thinking that software development, API's, etc play into the price of streamers. Common phone apps, small and relatively simple, are downloaded to millions of phones and through advertising, generate money to cover development costs.When a co... | |
| Audio Research preamps EXCESSIVE OPERATING COSTS Decooney, yes tubes were used in TVs for years... not because they worked well, but because that's all we had.I remember pulling the heavy TV out from the wall, removing the 10-20 screws and power cord interlock so I could access the insides of ... | |
| Why is black so popular for components? Black for me, BECAUSE I can see the dust more easily... therefore I keep it cleaner.Also, Black is more uniform. As someone in the printing business, I know that blacks are much more easily matched and stable in color. Whites are the most difficul... | |
| Unbelievable 3-D imaging sound Preslisa64, thx for the clarification. After not finding a song with that title from 2cellos, my search did turn up Mr and Mrs Cello. Very nice! |