richardbrand
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| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic I don’t think you really meant WiFi Extender in this context. Maybe Ethernet Over Power? Which in turn is completely different to Power Over Ethernet! My understanding is that both adapters for Ethernet Over Power have to be connected... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @atmasphere That was pretty much Ivor Tiefenbrun's thesis at Linn and it makes perfect sense! | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Thanks for the clarification. Are you somebody who claims to hear differences in ethernet cables / routers? My place in Canberra is almost impossible to wire with ethernet cables. Built by a Finn, it has mainly brick inside walls wi... | |
| My Denafrips Aries 15th has too much mid -bass, anybody else?? @mm1tt77 Comments on the design difference between DAC’s are spot on, R2R will have a very different sound signature vs those with newer chip designs Are you getting confused between the old resistance ladder designs and the much later R2R te... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic I wish my ears were good enough to detect that every bit is perfect! Interested in your comment: you need your streamer connected to the router via Ethernet. No WiFi What has been your experience of WiFi that makes you rule it out... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? I was browsing Presto looking to "discover" what sub-genre of jazz I might like and I came across this classification (filtered for vinyl only, I think) World & World Jazz (61) Hard Bop (52) Contemporary Jazz (49) Fusion (42) Vocal Jazz... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Glad you have no difference between streaming and downloading, but this is not guaranteed! By the way, are you using software to do the bit-wise comparison, or your ears? Presto has a streaming service in addition to its ’normal’ webs... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @sargonicuse One more bonus! Presto's streaming service offers file downloads as well. Means you should get bit-perfect copies to your storage, versus the hit and miss of streaming ... | |
| Piano is just 300 years old? There's more. Knowing that much of the readership here is from the USA, that about half the adult population of the USA seems to believe in creationism, and that everybody has to profess a belief in God, nevertheless I want to point out that the piano did not s... | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers I have not seen the Martin Logan jumpers, but I do have jumpers on my KEF Reference 1 speakers and on a pair of Mordaunt Short floor-standers. These are flat metal, possibly plated copper, but far bigger in cross section than any speaker cable! ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade On audible noise between tracks, my brand-new Decca recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto is very quiet on the long lead out tracks but has noticeable murmerings between the tracks, about in the middle of the quiet moments! | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound My purchases of classical music these days are almost entirely on SACD. I look for great perfomances and great sound! My decisions are mainly informed by Presto's website Presto Music | All things musical… on your doorstep and streaming / downloa... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @dogberry That's the one! I had never seen the digital version until your post. No doubt, the analog one sounds better! | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? When the very first CD players came out, Philips (who as co-inventors of CD had an inside run, after all) were widely deemed to have a better sound than their competitors. Philips used quadruple oversampling which allowed much more gentle filteri... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @dogberry I circumspectly circumnavigated this monstrosity which needs circumscribing, when I was last in the UK. Ok, I am used to roundabouts - after all Canberra is the renowned capital of roundabouts in Australia. Try a 2-km circumference! O... |