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| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality If you think streaming sounds bad, you're listening to poor streaming solution. Every single little thing matters in streaming, the network extremely important. All network equipment should have linear power supplies, quality ethernet cable, optic... | |
| Singer Songwriters Rarely Mentioned By Audiophiles Yeah, James McMurtry writes in song, his father the novelist Larry McMurtry recently died. Another one who wrote in song was the late great Harry Chapin. | |
| Manley Amp is humming - troubleshoot :( You better have the necessary skills before going into that amp, you could make a bad situation worse. | |
| Why the cost increase? Socialists running amok in America, privatize the benefits, socialize the costs. And yeah, libertarians as well, I can choose to not vaccinate, what about those who choose to want to live! The rabble in charge. Meet the new boss, same as the old b... | |
| Roon/Qobuz lost 7000 files Wolverine1, I never say never, the reason I have multiple backups, usb hard drive, Synology NAS and Soundiiz. Yes, it would still be tedious work to replace the lost Qobuz music within Roon, but I do have all the albums and artists saved.I just wo... | |
| LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ? I've not been able to move past present Shuguang black treasures as PT in 300b mono blocks or as drivers in Coincident Turbo 845 because of warranty and durability questions. The Shuguangs expose every upgrade I've ever made in system, seem to be ... | |
| Roon/Qobuz lost 7000 files I use Roon with tidal and qobuz, never any issues. Make sure you have latest updates with each. You can also save playlists and favorites, import and export them from various applications with Soundiiz. This is what I use to transfer playlists fro... | |
| Noise floors Equipment noise floor. If the RFI riding on grounds yes, but RFI can enter from myriad places. I've had rfi issues in past, cable dressing, equipment placement, room shielding can all help. | |
| LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ? Seems like HR's preference for WE based as much on warranty as sq. I believe the Cossor brand LinLai are Asian market only tubes, certainly not the same as Elite or perhaps even their lower level North America exports. As for warranties, assuming ... | |
| Manley Amp is humming - troubleshoot :( Could also be bad output transformer, | |
| PS audio new 25K dac and the psychological effect of owning a company's best. If innovations in developing this dac trickle down to more affordable dacs good for all of us. Otherwise, value is only known to those who purchase it.I presume cache of PS Audio goes up if dac reviews as state of art. | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? I've been modding for perhaps twenty years now, IME, both film and electrolytics have improved, I presume for all the reasons above. Really, very few choices years ago with boutique caps, most were general use variety. As I recall, the first audio... | |
| Noise floors My practical goal for the ambient noise floor has been met. Mid 20db has been totally satisfying. My intention for anything lower is theoretical. And I'd agree one wouldn't want a totally dead room, some ambience and/or noise is our natural enviro... | |
| Singer Songwriters Rarely Mentioned By Audiophiles I saw Lindsay lou and flatbellies not too long ago at microbrewery in Michigan. The Ragbirds similar sound, also hail from Michigan.Some of the older artists meaningful to me. David Ackles, Eric Anderson, Mary Black, Chuck & Mary Perrin, Tim H... | |
| Noise floors A lot there, having been a sociology major in school, I've been long aware of bias, misperception, etc. And so I agree our brains should be considered as a component of our audio systems, taken together with listening room easily should get as mu... |