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| Is Recording quality the real culprit? Excessive compression is easily number one culprit, luckily I don't listen to a lot of this overly produced drivel. Perhaps recording quality has helped subconsciously steer me towards less commercial artists. Still, I'd say unlistenable recording... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD @mapman Thought I was reading my own entries! There is value to all the various means to playback music. I have turntable, reel to reel, two cassette players, cd transport, tuner. And I've held on to all my physical media, Streaming becam... | |
| Do other DACs do this? Auralic Vega I used a Vega for years, never experienced this and don't recall this being a Vega issue, something unique in your streaming setup causing this. | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD Used to purchase cd's on weekly, nearly daily basis, then I found streaming. Continued to purchase cd's much less frequently, and then began to notice the online sellers I frequented inventory getting smaller and smaller, now they're gone. I u... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship I've used 005 sans pre, and with Pass XP-22 and modded Coincident Statement pre's, somewhat threadbare with no pre. 005 easily exposed differences between the Pass and Coincident, and easily exposes differences with virtually every change I make i... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship @dbb Wonderful review, covers all the bases. As you know I've also been enamored of 005 for a few years now. Based on technical details released per 006 not surprised by your impressions, the attention paid to power supplies and layout is really q... | |
| Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets I've used a wide variety of outlets over the years. There is no single outlet that's best, these are subtle tuning devices that are best decided on once you've tuned system. Hubbel's mentioned on warm side, Rhodium far more neutral. I use a combo ... | |
| Listening to what we Like Instead of what we have to Don't have any particular advice, but having the right combo of equipment can allow you to have a high resolution/transparent system that's emotionally involving playing a wide variety of music. I play virtually every genre from every era, includi... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! @irjones I run NAS in RAID configuration, so 2 HD with identical data, I have backup of these with USB external drive. Chances of three HD failures is virtually nill. And I still have my 3k plus cd's, not worth the hassle of selling and cd's don't... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! Well, business models have never favored vast majority of artists, musicians. Until the day comes they can leverage their art it will never happen. I'm sure most popular artists would prefer a system where they and their record company could m... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! @wolf_garcia +1 I can agree that many artists receive too little compensation. But lets imagine a world without streaming where record companies control the marketing and promotion of artists they chose to work with. So, you're a beginning artist,... | |
| LAIV Harmony @lanx0003 You've pointed out one of my concerns with R2R dacs, that being performance could vary over time as these resistors could drift in value. R2R dacs are reliant on relatively large number of resistors compared to other audio components, so... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! One of the downsides to streaming mentioned, and that is sudden disappearance of recordings from streaming services. And it will be the exact same artist and album from both Tidal and Qobuz. I presume disputes with artists and/or record labels her... | |
| Rel sub @fertguy I'm using Duelund tin plated copper wire on REL's, I'd take easy bet on these diy cables being superior to the two you mentioned, read some reviews on the Duelund wire for speakers. For DIY cables you don't even have to know how to solder... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! Streaming radio station or Fm isn't best for discovering new artists. Between Qobuz and Tidal which I stream over Roon, nearly unlimited music, and Roon radio will play entire catalog of my ripped library, Tidal and Qobuz at random, also suggestio... |