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| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. Speaking of boats, I had competition ski boat a number of years ago. I live in Michigan, so five months usage max. At one time I figured out the cost per hour of benefit, outrageously high. Using same equation with audio system, extremely high ben... | |
| Sound quality of Roon In some cases Roon can be buggy if using many processes which taxes processors in many servers. For those using many Roon and/or HQPlayer dsp and other processes you're going to need a server with Intel I7 and above for seamless performance. A... | |
| Sound quality of Roon Observation of Roon forums with those having issues, one will find problems nearly 100% of time individual in nature. Extremely rare to find a single issue universal to a particular version of Roon. If there was a problem with a particular ite... | |
| Did you notice.... Cd rips on local files outperformed both my Mark Levinson #37 and modded PS Audio PerfectWave transports. Over time improvements on network and streams virtually indistinguishable to cd rips. This with over 3500 rips, so wide variety recording var... | |
| Vinyl record grading I too am curious about vinyl values. Seems to me audiophiles would be much more concerned with sound quality vs esthetics. So the question becomes who's purchasing vinyl these days? Guess I assumed anyone purchasing older jazz recordings would be... | |
| Ideal power cord lengths? I've audtioned and diy built many PC's over the years, I can't recall a single experience where I put differences down to length of PC, and this from a person who regularly changes out things like capacitors, resistors, inductors, etc, and does he... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @dpop The setup you're speaking of is pretty much exactly replicates my AC setup! Speaking of neutrals, recently I experimented with two of my diy power cord recipes. One has exact same number and gauge of wire for neutral and hot, the other h... | |
| Direct Drive I've owned Rega and VPI belt drives, much prefer my Technics SP10MKII with custom plinth. Much more slam, impact, pace than the belt drives. Perhaps my situation unique in that I mostly concentrated on digital side for years, resulting in sup... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Mary Hopkin, Earth Song, Ocean Song. | |
| Sound quality of Roon Vast, vast majority of Roon issues are either user or network issues, I've not had single Roon caused issue in a few years of using it, only time I had issues, my network to blame. Roon forums will also prove this out, Roon pretty much as foolproo... | |
| What's going on with the used audio gear market? @ghasley + And another rant about gvt. spending. What about consumer spending, completely left out of equation! Consumers have been spending like crazy coming out of pandemic, so deprived! Supply constraints left out as well, suppose that's prese... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? @soix There is rep from Ifi who regularly contributes on headfi forum. I'd PM him at that forum, goes under moniker, IFIAudio. I'd add vinyl is pretty much on par with streaming for complications or lack thereof. Streaming is different in that... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @rudyb This is exactly what my N.E.W. DCA66 class A ss amp did, and this all back in late 90's! It was nice to have an off the shelf all in one package offering, thought I would have seen more offerings in such a package over the years. | |
| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive I'm in same boat with digital so much better no longer listen to vinyl, and this with well over 3500 albums. I estimate I'd have to spend upwards of $10K on phono pre and cartridge to get back to something like level playing field. Not sure I'm go... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? You'll only become more confused over the course of this thread as nearly unlimited presentation of best subjective results with various equipment and schemes. Believe this due to a technology in fast growth phase, expect much innovation in co... |