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| Recommend A New DAC Between $1000 and $2000 My path so far has been from the built-in DAC in the Bluesound Node 2i, to the Schiit Modi Multibit, and now to the Denafrips Pontus II, which is in the price range you specified. I am sure I will get the itch to upgrade at some point, but right n... | |
| Worth upgrading my cables? In order of importance for my system: speaker placement (free and uber-important) speaker isolation (own and like IsoAcoustics Gaia) speaker cables (own and like Morrow Audio) | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? @russ69 This is the last one; after this, ChatGPT will probably revoke my charter... Question: Write a review of the Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 speakers, in the style of John Blutarsky. ChatGPT's answer: Man, these Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 spea... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? @gordon As you expected, ChatGPT is pure prose-poetry: Question: Write a review of the Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 speakers, in the style of Charles Bukowski. ChatGPT’s answer: Listen, these Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 speakers, they ain’t for the... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? @jasonbourne52 Yes, these are real ChatGPT outputs, even the style of JA. Maybe the writers can retire? Here’s your other one: Question: Write a review of the Tech Das Air Force 1 turntable, in the style of Michael Fremer. ChatGPT’s answer: The ... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? I couldn’t resist one somewhat more realistic test (this could get addictive): Question: Write a review of the Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 speakers, in the style of John Atkinson. ChatGPT’s answer: The Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 speakers are a tr... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? @srinisr ChatGPT has only been trained up to the year 2019, so I asked for a review of an older speaker, slightly tongue in cheek: My question: Write a review of the Bowers and Wilkins 801 D3 speakers, in the style of a carnival barker. ChatGP... | |
| David Crosby R.I.P. Saw CSN at high and low points, and remember especially a ~2010-ish show (well post-transplant, as well as post SS vocal decline) at the Fillmore, where the band was super-tight and Crosby sounded like a 30-year old again... RIP, David... | |
| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? +1 for bigtwin Leonard Cohen | |
| Heist/ crime songs Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody | |
| Pontus ii and Hi Res @tcotruvo Standard Cat6 Ethernet cable is rated to 10Gbps over 180 feet. That’s probably at least 10x the bandwidth from your ISP even if you have fiber, and more than 1000 times the bandwidth of HiRes audio streaming… | |
| Stereophile Scamming Subscribers? This is not an unusual practice in magazine subscriptions, and it also occurs with things like credit cards. A company will send out different offers ($X for Y years for a subscription, or $W annual fee with Z% interest rate for a credit card) -- ... | |
| Dropouts when steaming with WiFi connection (Amazon Music). If wireless is unreliable, you might look into either of these two solutions: 1. Ethernet over Powerline. This only requires a wall outlet near you router and one near your streamer. Something like this: 2. I have managed to sneak Ethern... | |
| Best Examples Of Cymbal Decays On A Recording The album "Benzaiten" by Osamu Kitajima (1974) has a variety of cymbals, triangles, and various Japanese percussion instruments that make it a great test record (as well as a testament to how creative a musician can be before being lured to LA for... | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? Eardrum in Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square), ~1980. JVC receiver, Technics turntable, Nakamichi tape deck and a dbx compressor (dolby vs dbx was still undecided then), Polk Audio Monitor 7's. |