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| Hard disk for Music Server If you are worried about data recovery or losing a disk on a raid 5 system, then use raid 6 which has 2 parity drives so you can actually lose 2 drives and still keep working. For casual use around the home for sharing music and video files, an ex... | |
| Hard disk for Music Server I spent over 42 years in IT with over 30 years in the performance end of things including storage systems costing over million dollars (EMC storage), the last 10 years actually working for a solid state/hard disk manufacturer. You always need a ba... | |
| newbie seeks help with system design Sonus is not that good. If you want a nice entry streamer, look for a used Auralic Aries Mini.I have had that B&O turntable decades ago and the cartridge is the weakest part. IMO, if you have to rebuild the cartridge, then I wouldn’t do it bec... | |
| Hard disk for Music Server If you get 3 hard drives of 4G capacity, are you going to create a RAID 0 array to get your 10+G of space?I worked for a hard drive manufacturer for many years and for music, it really doesn’t matter what type of drive you get. For music, you won’... | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? Stupid questions for both the audio and Porsche products. When the Cayenne 1st came out, most Porsche owners thought this way, that was 15 or more years ago. No Porsche owner feels that way now. Same goes for analog vs. digital. | |
| Speaker size and bass The other thing that you can do is biamp your speakers with an amp that had its own volume control. I did this many years ago when I had a smaller room. At the lower volumes, there was no bass, so I just adjusted the bass amps volume to play a lit... | |
| Lumin or Aurender When I compared streamers, Auralic sounded better than both the Lumin and Aurender, plus their DS Lightning software was far superior. For a while I used the Lumin software against the Auralic. This is when I used the streamer hooked up to the dac... | |
| Uptone EtherRegen If you want dead quiet streaming, go with a fiber network provider. If you have a copper internet provider, you can clean up the signal to your computer/streamer by using the Ethernet-to-fiber converter then the fiber-to-Ethernet converter for muc... | |
| Passive Bookshelf Speaker Selection You’re right about klipsh being bright and fatigue after a short while. IMO, B&W fall into this category too unless you have a warmer sounding amp. Also, don’t listen to some clown that says buy whatever and hand tune them. With speakers, you... | |
| Camp designations Sound stager | |
| It was 20 years ago today... My start date was around 20 years ago. Just looking back on my 1st sales on agon, early 2001 when the listing fee was $2. Bring back the good old days | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life 1st thing you need to do is bring out GIK or ASC (or someone similar) to your house to treat your room. If you have a terrible sounding room, no amount of money spent on quality gear will overcome a sh$tty sounding room.Go out and listen to friend... | |
| Your One Bullet Point Solution; Electrical Upgrade I have a whole house surge suppressor at the meter put in by the electric company. They maintain it, and provide insurance to every electrical device inside the house. Not only is my audio room protected, but my other audio systems in other rooms,... | |
| Tweaks that work? (yes very subjective topic) We all use cones under components or should be and every room should have the basic room treatments.After that, you can raise your cables off the floor, and put some dampers on top of each component. There are many cable elevators out there or you... | |
| How many NICE looking high end floor standing speaker are there at present Look at Usher, their Mini dancer 1 or 2’s, BE10, Or be-20 floorstanding speakers. Great looks with great sound quality |