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My List of Best & Most Enjoyable Documentaries (on DVD) about Entire Musical Genre The four PBS documentaries in the "Now Hear This" series are excellent. They're not in the standard historical documentary style, which I think is a good thing in this case, and were both informative and very entertaining. They look at the lives o... | |
Little Richard passes away at 87. Another musical great joins the band in the sky. I saw him in 1974 or '75 at the Ritz Theater on Sixth St. in Austin, a small former movie theater that was a music venue for those two years. It still had the original very small stage and movie theater seating and a friend and I had second row ce... | |
New to Streaming RPI4 and Hifiberry DAC + DSP Neither Pandora nor Spotify has lossless files as an option, at least not yet.In choosing among Amazon HD, Qobuz and Tidal I would recommend you do a free trial of each, even if that means initially listening to lower resolution files. Their music... | |
Some basic computer audio questions There are decent, relatively inexpensive DACs out there with both USB and optical inputs, Topping and SMSL are two of the names that are recommended often. | |
Some basic computer audio questions When I set up my system a few years ago the USB digital output was considered to have more inherent noise and jitter than an optical or coax output and most DACs didn't have USB input. Most DACs now do have USB input, including mine, but this work... | |
Some basic computer audio questions I have a late 2015 iMac and the headphone jack doubles as a mini-optical digital output. Not sure but I would guess it's the same for your Mac since I think all iMacs had that feature during that time period. For analog output you use a stereo-min... | |
What Have I Bought? discnik, I have an Advent 300 that I got in a trade from a friend and it's now in the house of another friend driving a pair of Minimus 7s. She loves it and I really like seeing it having a second life. | |
What was in your first "real" higher end audio system? 1966 -- Dynaco SCA-35 kitAR turntableAR speakers - small, but don't remember the model number | |
Giving up on Itunes! Alternatives? I want to run my hardrive with a dedicated tablet. The OP is right about iTunes/Apple Music's disorganization. Everything looks organized within iTunes itself but if you look at the folder structure in iTunes Media within the Music folder at the Finder level you'll see that the original album stru... | |
Total streaming noob question As djones51 mentioned, on your Macbook go to System Preferences under the Apple icon at the top left of the menu bar. Click on 'Sound' and choose 'Digital Out' if it's not already chosen. | |
Receiver working as pre-amp, TURNS OFF, whenever Second Zone/Speaker B goes loud I sold to a friend a pair of 4 ohm Monitor Audio speakers which had worked well in my house with a McCormack amp and a fairly longer cable run. But in his house with an inexpensive receiver and a very long speaker cable run the receiver would shut... | |
J River Music Software for Mac I didn't hear any difference with the switch to Music from iTunes with a similar setup in one system, iMac/WiFi/Airport Express. The optical output from the Airport Express and Apple TV suffers from a lot of jitter, timing errors in the digital si... | |
Great country recording I'm a big Buddy Miller fan, first encountered him when he was, supposedly, the opening act for Emmylou Harris at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. But the show was really the Buddy and Julie Miller show with Emmylou Harris. One of my all time favorite per... | |
Your "Best of..." audio manufacturer in each state In Texas, Raven Audio. The Blackhawk LE is easily the best amp of the many I've owned over the last 50 years and the support by owner Dave Thomson is the best I've encountered, as well. | |
Audio Repair Texas I'm in Austin and have had two nearby shops recommended for tube and/or vintage repair, one in Austin and one in Taylor, just north of Austin. Reclaimed Audio does the upgrade and repair work for Raven Audio, which is a good sign. Haven't used eit... |