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| Is there such a thing as a good medium priced music streamer? Update - the latest HEOS version is a huge improvement over any other streaming app I've seen. I expect BluOS and others to take notice and revamp their mediocre-at-best User Interfaces sooner rather than later. In addition to the visual improveme... | |
| Best small used monitors under $1000 In your size room, KEF LS-50 without a doubt. Readily available for under $1000. What some consider a lack of dynamics is actually accuracy - a lack of 'boom and sizzle'. Definitely helps if you have a solid 75-100w/Ch amp. Solid stands are requir... | |
| Is there such a thing as a good medium priced music streamer? I have a BlueSound Node, and it's a very nice piece, but the app isn't a meaningful upgrade from the HEOS app. OTOH, a Marantz Model 40 can be integrated with an Amazon Echo to give you full voice control. That's a huge upgrade in usability over a... | |
| Most recent speaker you audited in room and returned? Why did you return it? @noromance Ahh, Gale 301s. I so lusted after those in the early 80s! So freaking gorgeous. But they were way out of my limited finances at the time. | |
| Most recent speaker you audited in room and returned? Why did you return it? Although I didn't return them, I was very disappointed in my KEF LS-50s, in my living room, both with and without a subwoofer. I even put them through a thorough break-in to make sure that wasn't an issue. They just just sounded small and lost. Th... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. The soundtrack to the movie "Phenomenon". It was on rotation in my car's CD changer for almost 10 years. When Jewel starts channeling Janis Joplin halfway through 'Have A Little Faith In Me' is just a remarkable exercise in vocal skills. And the C... | |
| Tidal or Qobuz Amazon is the company people love to hate, but the simple fact is Amazon executes really well. Their delivery service is now bigger than FedEx or UPS, and they have addressed much of their employee issues with improved working conditions, better p... | |
| My First OverHead Projector I have a BenQ 3550, a nice 4K pixel-shifting projector from about 2020. The TK860i is a close replacement for under $2,000, and the somewhat more expensive 4550i is an LED unit that kinda owns the $3000 price range right now. My next buy. The E... | |
| Is my amp good enough? Congratulations, The MA Gold 300 5Gs have only won like 6 major international awards. In other words, they're pretty awesome. They're also relatively efficient and relatively low impedance, both of which play well into your current amps strengths,... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? @h4k4lugi Thanks for posting that. I have no doubt bringing in Shunyata to design and implement a fully developed and integrated power, grounding, and interconnect strategy can yield a 10dB improvement in a studio. But that is a very different thi... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? @jacobsdad2000 zzzzzzz ? Yeah, that would be a grounding issue. As in your lack of grounding in basic physics and electronics. | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? Still waiting. See I'm one of those guys who actually took a physics class, studied power distribution and networking, and practiced it professionally for nearly 50 years, and have seen and heard, if not all, most of the tweaks in that time. Here... | |
| BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard? "None But The Lonely Heart" 1997 release by Chris Anderson and Charlie Haden on Naim. Yes, that Naim. Anderson was Chick Corea's piano teacher but retired from performing due to his blindness and degenerative bone disease that made playing extreme... | |
| SME tonearms on a japanese market Visualize a knife, edge up, placed transversely across the armtube. Now, fit the armtube in a metal block with a presisely machined 'V' groove that is placed on the knife edge and balanced. You have now created a stable, extremely low-friction, ra... | |
| KEF LS60: Distance from wall behind them @dbphd Bass management and crossovers are two different beasts, and one is definitely not a substitute for the other. The only exception to this is that most AVRs bass management does crossover as well as level and EQ. |