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| Recommendation for small surrounds to pair with Onkyo NR6050 and a pair of diy tritrix For your application a pair of Dayton Audio speakers from Parts Express would probably do the trick. They're light weight, inexpensive and sound good for the price. https://www.parts-express.com/home-a-v/home-speakers/bookshelf-speakers | |
| Another man down There's a very good documentary on his life and work, "If You Could Read My Mind" available on several streaming services. Highly recommended. https://www.gordonlightfootmovie.com/ | |
| Hand Sanitizer for Ultrasonic Record Cleaning? Before you buy a gallon it would be good to look into what the effect of glycerin might be on your records. That’s the second ingredient. | |
| Inexpensive Streaming Another impressive streamer at that price is the WiiM Mini, both digital and analog output with volume control built in for the analog output. https://wiimhome.com/Overview.html | |
| Problems with forum lag/performance? Running Chrome on an M1 Mac Mini with a WiFi connection to my router I have no lag at all, even when going through a VPN. | |
| Patio tunes For a patio system, powered Bluetooth speakers make perfect sense. Any of the choices in the line of Edifier speakers are excellent. The R1700BT model is hard to beat for that application. https://amzn.to/40Ne56W | |
| Can an IEC socket be too short? Duct tape would work but it would be easier to use teflon plumbers tape, the kind used to wrap around the threaded pipe. Easy to precisely adjust the thickness of the wrap and no sticky mess to clean off if you want to remove it. | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? Reference 3A MM deCapo i speakers. After decades of a parade of speakers from ProAc, Thiel, Merlin, DeVore and others, the de Capos are the ones that most often surprise me with what I’m hearing. And, a Nelson Pass designed Amp Camp Amp in my offi... | |
| Can I add an outboard Equalizer to my music streamer ? To give you helpful suggestions about how to improve the sound it would be useful to know what equipment is in your system now and how you're receiving the Spotify feed. | |
| Can I add an outboard Equalizer to my music streamer ? I'm not sure an equalizer will do what you're looking for. An equalizer will vary the output in the frequency ranges, meaning it will increase or decrease the volume in one or more of the frequency ranges it's designed to affect but it won't resto... | |
| Please help with setting up a streaming system Your iPad will work well as the controller for a Bluesound Node, that's how I stream Tidal in my living room system. I use an iPad Mini because the size is perfect for easy handling but with a screen large enough to be easily read. It also works w... | |
| Please help with setting up a streaming system A good place to start would be with the Bluesound Node streamer. One of its advantages is how is the very well designed software and how easy it is to integrate with all the popular streaming sources. It would allow you to use your existing DAC. ... | |
| Best 2.0 bluetooth speakers for my Desktop PC I can't vouch for the Edifier models on your list but I bought a pair of the more expensive Edifier R1700BT speakers for some friends and was so impressed by the sound and build quality that I bought a pair for myself, just to have around as backu... | |
| Spikes on tower speakers If you use those black rubber and cork pads be aware that the black rubber can bleed into any wood surface they're left on for a length of time. I had permanent black squares that were left when pads like that were used between my speakers and a m... | |
| Spikes on tower speakers To protect hardwood floors from the spikes of a pair of ProAc speakers I had two pieces of slate cut from scrap material at a business that sold custom countertops. They were @$20 each some years ago but the price will probably depend on how accom... |