stevewharton
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| Audiophile Tool Bingo degausser? sandpaper? permanent black marker? @dekay major style points and a snappy dresser discount for the sock garters - funny stuff | |
| Politics and Music @rok2id the Dixie Chicks might have a thing or two to say about the matter of personal risk? | |
| Politics and Music Potential combative thread and I commend the fellow members on this forum for keeping the exchange civil and informative On a humorous note I recall a televised Garth Brooks concert from DC and the audience was mostly elected officials for the se... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. @luxmancl38 maybe you'll get lucky and the manual is in 5 languages and you will only need to power trough 50-60 pages Setup and tweaking on some AVRs can be a chore with room analysis microphones for optimized speaker placement, carving up the p... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. @luxmancl38 in my experience learned over time, home theater and 2 channel stereo is almost apples and oranges Feature rich multifunction devices that do everything pretty good Vs stand alone specialty devices that do fewer things extremely well ... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media @sns great point and who knew? So many boxes to check just to ensure compatibility, much less optimization This is hard stuff to keep straight even for the reasonably or well informed I'm exaggerating for humor, but how in the heck can we expec... | |
| Ethernet - Analog/Digital Signal Clean Up @audioman58 +1 on the Sonore products you mentioned and I use them and the results have been outstanding and a true difference maker in SQ For me personally, the pinnacle of any upgrade, allows me to hear the same tried and true music I've been l... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media @chopandchange here's a link to a whitepaper that explains this in better detail, warning is bit head reading but you strike me as quite technical @gdnrbob thank you Sir for the kind words @pwayland I have nearly the same digital front end kit w... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media @chopandchange Your question about clocking is a good one and it only takes about 2 seconds to get me out of my comfort zone I'll share what little I think I understand The issue of clocking is part of an age old problem of jitter in the digit... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media @chopandchange So if the streamer is always getting a perfect binary signal where does it go wrong? Well the only thing I can think of is that noise is entering the system along with the binary stream. It's noise that's the polluter nothing els... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media I have both an Audiolab 6000CDT and a Sonore ultraDigital/opticalRendu streaming stack connected to the same DAC. The transport is coax connected and the streamer i2s The transport was $500 and the streaming kit approx 2k If the file formats ar... | |
| Qobuz Skipping or Short Pauses I only have this problem on Qobuz and it's very infrequent now I've never had the issue on Tidal The recommendation from Roon was to hardwire the network connections where possible and avoid wifi for best results I know that's a band aid, compr... | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding This thread grew on me You guys have covered the gamut and much of it mirrors many of my artist disconnects as well The Dead, Tom Waits, Dylan, Miles, Radiohead, etc @curiousjim the Shatner stuff was off the charts funny Unable to connect with... | |
| Cable curmudgeon @exflute your observation is valid and results of your comparison probably accurate and as such you MUST have a good ear to detect the variances between these two specific cables Where you've stubbed your toe that has brought out some of the claw... | |
| A first @larsman I completely concur, ain't no rules and did not intend to imply as such One of the beauties of our hobby is the only rules or boundaries are between the confines of the ears of the beholder No right or wrong, only different and they all... |