travelinjack
Responses from travelinjack
| Salk Future TBD Sounds like an amazing opportunity for someone with the right skill set. I love the idea of doing this but I know I don't have the skills or experience in either cabinet making or the speaker guts to make it work. | |
| Inexpensive streaming amplifier Go with separates since the streaming part goes obsolete fairly quickly. WiiM Pro streamer for $150 and your favorite budget amplifier. Small class D amps like the Loxjie A30 or a full size amp like the Yamaha A-S301. | |
| Is a home theater even worth it or doable? If you are into movies then absolutely especially the big spectacle movies with lots of effects if you can manage to set up a fully immersive surround sound system with two or more subwoofers. Be aware that streaming audio for movies is usually n... | |
| Lucinda Williams' Stories From A Rock n Roll Heart. Saw her at Merlefest like 20 years ago. Excellent show despite the pro-war Bush fans heckling her. | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? I ripped several thousand and then stored them in boxes. | |
| Women Who Rock Aretha Franklin, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads), Kim Deal (Pixies), Exene Cervenka (X), Poison Ivy (The Cramps) | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus I want to say The Meat Puppets at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill 25 years ago but I am sure that there many others too. | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? @docknow that whole Hell on Church Street album by the Punch Bros as was the original by Tony Rice is excellent. @northman Love that tune as I also do Hatfield by Widespread Panic. Many of their tunes tell a solid story. The Vic Chessnut/Widespre... | |
| Made in USA I believe most of the Revel line up is made in the USA and most of the Focal speaker line up is made in France. | |
| Using streaming as a main source ---DSD, FLAC, MQA Streamers and DACS FLAC is a lossless compression container for WAV files and not an audio format on it's own. | |
| DAC/Pre-Amp Advice With that system adding room correction is a pain. I also don't like the idea of room correction for stereo sound. I would focus on a decent DAC and a decent phono preamp. | |
| Audio gear, sonic quality when you listen in less (or non-) focused ways @curtdr I'm guessing that the distracted mind listens differently. | |
| Audio gear, sonic quality when you listen in less (or non-) focused ways If the system is good enough for FL then it should be perfectly fine for everything else. I find it interesting that sometimes during accidental listening or casual listening to hear more subtle or less obvious portions of the music that I might... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? In addition to the many greats above I would add Fiona Apple and Mavis Staples. | |
| Snowballs A lot of folks down there are not wearing helmets and pads. Even with the gear, an ice chunk from the upper deck can take out an eye permanently. But at least it wasn't in Philly, the snowballs would have had batteries and razor blades inside. |