nonoise
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| Dirty little secret of Pedigreed, decades old Speaker line - no one will address All the best, Nonoise | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? All the best, Nonoise | |
| why expensive streamers @grislybutter What I meant was from the source (Spotify, Quoboz, Tidal, Apple, etc.) to the endpoint: you and your system. Those here who have/use local files on their own storage they stream from have commented on how much better it sounds compar... | |
| why expensive streamers @mdalton I wasn't talking about losing or dropping packets and the tech used to ensure it all gets there. I was talking about noise creeping into the many places it can from sender to receiver and that it can corrupt what can be heard. The analogy... | |
| why expensive streamers If file transfer is perfect and done until it's right, reassembling the former exactly into the later, and when someone comes up with a teleporter based on this "exacting" tech, who will be the first to volunteer to go into the descrambler chamber... | |
| why expensive streamers @grislybutter How does that old saying go? Something like, "parts is parts." 😄 | |
| why expensive streamers Even the gods man has made are full of errors and faults. (that's snark, folks) | |
| why expensive streamers @grislybutter It's not just streamers, but any digital signal that can be potentially degraded. It was from a review of a USB cord that pointed out the importance of proper shielding, keeping out RFI and EMI at all costs. I thought it went along ... | |
| why expensive streamers I think blisshifi was referring to something like this, showing how it's not just 1's and 0's. The digital interpretation/represetation is of an electrical (mechanical) signal, or something like that. All the best, Nonoise | |
| Looking for comparisons between CD transports I was surprised to see this CDP get a Red Fingerprint Award from High Fidelity a little while ago. What impressed them was the heft it brought to the sound. It's the SMSL P200 CDP. You can get it on Amazon for under $670 and return it if you do... | |
| A speaker stand with room for an amp? If you don't mind the amps sitting out in the open and still be part of the stand, something like this from Dynaudio can be a starting point for ideas, All the best, Nonoise | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? The golden age was the first of such, followed by the silver, bronze, heroic and iron ages. The term denotes times of plenty with no strife. Audio seems to be immune from that, going it’s own way and has quite the road to travel. I refuse to think... | |
| Electric bill any high A couple of summers ago I had an outrageous DWP bill that was almost triple what I used to incur. I was advised to pay it upfront and look into it as they'd simply credit my account should there have been some error. I took photos of my meter re... | |
| Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer! All the best, Nonoise | |
| Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer! I disagree because i lived myself trough this apocalyptic failure of the electrical grid for 12 hours in Quebec ...Do you experienced this ? Apocalyptic? Back in the early '70s we had an earthquake so bad that I saw the hallway walls dancing ar... |