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| Noise floors Thanks unrecievedogma, you get it. Have you measured your typical ambient noise floor? This article mentions typical recording studio ambient noise levels are mid 20db and explains the importance of ambient noise floors. https://mojodigitalmusic.c... | |
| Why the cost increase? None of this surprising. I'm not even going to get into micro economic analysis. Crazy pricing within individual markets is likely to be the new norm going into future. I believe we are now in the beginning days of a new realization of increasingl... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Yep, streaming can be complex undertaking, so many routes available, constant change and innovation. Unique solutions are far more rule than exception. The only advice I can give is every link in chain matters in optimizing streaming sound quality... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality Maximizing streaming sound quality requires optimizing every single link in chain, not a simple undertaking. And then, as others have mentioned, the provenance of recording extremely important. My preference for cd rips or streams is extremely var... | |
| Can we talk about Qobuz for a minute I'm running both Tidal and Qobuz through Roon, seems I prefer sound quality of Qobuz, more long term satisfaction, not necessarily poor sound quality from Tidal. I also prefer Qobuz greater focus on European and/or international music vs. Tidal hi... | |
| Noise floors Hilarious, I did mention my preferred listening rooms, don't recall anechoic chamber being one of them. I guess you take plenty of meds, altered mind can't detect micro dynamics, probably listen to all highly compressed recordings at high volume l... | |
| Noise floors And to make it even more crystal clear, even macro dynamic range is quite variable. Roon provides a dynamic range index with each recording, this is the difference between the loudest and softest volume on any one track or cd/album, this is variab... | |
| Noise floors You don't get it. The problem isn't when music is at 85db, its during the quiet passages, music may be at only 50, 60db, perhaps lower. Unless all you listen to is highly compressed music at high volumes, bring on the fireworks, furnace sounds, lo... | |
| HELP! I bought equipment drunk, don’t know anything. Ronniewills, not to be flippant, as I believe you're being honest, and you could have done much worse in the purchase department! And I get it, I've had the drinking issues as well. But have you considered open mike night at comedy club, I love t... | |
| Noise floors I've tried something similar, a high back chair, higher than my ears. My listening room at end of house, front wall at outside wall, so at listening position virtually all house generated noise behind listening position. The high back chair masked... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. I predict this thread will be gone soon enough, all the nuance of Whitey on the Moon lost by tired old tripes of left vs right. Such enlightenment has never been observed. See, I told you the Bezos and Branson flights would bring about world peace. | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. Whiteys on the moon, thanks for that! And we know Jeff and Richard Branson will come back as changed men, the infinitesimal man in the universe thing, mass world improvement right around the corner. Such enlightenment has never been observed. Lets... | |
| Fear of volume control Pauly, thanks for that, explains much in the global sense. And then on the micro front, I find individual recordings or cuts, even on same album/cd (recording levels variable within that single album/cdn) require individual volume settings, someth... | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! In the end I can't possibly rank, at one time or another I might have said any of the items you've mentioned as the most important. All links in chain are important, improving the weakest is entirely variable within one's system at any single poin... | |
| klipshorn speakers I assume I could get my Klipschorns to measure better with digital processor, but at the cost of colorations of that processor, nothing that signal passes through doesn't have sound signature. I don't want a single change here from the status quo.... |