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| Led Zeppelin 11 I no longer collect records as I now listen to streamed digital files through my headphones. There, I said it. It is most cathartic to finally come out as I never, ever thought I would trade LPs for digital, but here we are. I collected records... | |
| Led Zeppelin 11 I see that Better Records hot stampers have suffered from the same price escalation as with equipment. | |
| Led Zeppelin 11 I bought a number of hot stampers from Tom for a number of years until I discovered a record seller in the Bay Area and another in SoCal where I could buy multiple copies and perform my own shootouts. In some cases I was able to find pressings be... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? @lanx0003 The $360 DAC was the SMSL SU-8 v.2 Anniversary Edition. | |
| I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day Another horror story, this time courtesy of UPS. I had a pair of monitor speakers that used a pair of nicely built stands made of plaster and lead bars. I shipped both sets double-boxed and got a call from the buyer who asked me to report the st... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? The $3500 DAC is the Auralic Vega, the $11,000 DAC the Bricasti M1SE with network streamer. It seemed that the sound improvement between the lesser DAC steps were maybe 40% improvement, the Vega to M1SE was about 20-30%. I wonder how much more i... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? I went from the DAC in my laptop to a $168 DAC/AMP to a $99 standalone DAC to a $360 DAC to a $3500 DAC to my current $11,000 DAC. And yes, there was a significant and easy-to-hear improvement with each step upward in cost, so all is right with t... | |
| I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day Seriously, I don't trust either company either. Recently I ordered a headphone amp from a seller in Texas shipped by Fedex Ground that required a direct signature and followed it across the country. It then showed it being delivered to my addres... | |
| I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day I heard Fedex and UPS are merging. The new company will be called Fed-Up. | |
| High Fidelity Cables? It is a shame they went out of business but in my opinion it was an unsustainable business model. If there were one thing in audio that was a sure bet for sonic improvement it was HFC products, no matter the gizmo or how many you already had. Ot... | |
| Go Cat8! I had a cat 6E Blue Jeans ethernet cable running from my router to Bricasti M1SE streaming DAC and switched to a Certicables cat 8 cable, both 10 feet long. I bought the Certicables on eBay for $45. The difference was noticeable in a positive di... | |
| High Fidelity Cables? I believe there were a number of reasons HFC went out of business other than escalating stratospheric pricing. First, their customer service was weak to put it mildly. Second, the constant innovation and model upgrades quickly obsoleted current te... | |
| China built tube amps Categorizing all Chinese-built tube amps as junk is really painting with a broad brush. I have bought junk stuff from all over the globe, thank you. Recently I bought an inexpensive Chinese tubed headphone amp with an onboard DAC; the brand was ... | |
| Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables? sts, couldn't agree more. It has become a personal decision as to whether the price, whatever that might be, is worth the customer service problems. | |
| Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables? balihog, I do have a Silnote Epirus Master Reference USB cable and it is indeed a fine-sounding cable. That being said, the reason I originally posted this note is to receive information on problems in ordering High Fidelity Cables, not to have t... |