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| Is there any interesting music coming from France ? OK. A fair bit of electronica in here. But also some new jazz and indie... Da Iguana: https://hardfist.bandcamp.com/album/present-of-future-pasts Tristesse Contemporaine: https://tristessecontemporaine.bandcamp.com/album/tristesse-contemporaine ... | |
| To those with Digital Libraries - Some Questions... The most important tool for me is the tag editor. MP3Tag is the basis of my library. Without it my library would be a jumbled mess of genre chaos. And I have 100K files on an 8TB SSD in my main HQPlayer Ubuntu music server, as well as on a NAS wit... | |
| Why aren’t BNC jacks common? Indeed, I am a big fan of XLR. I have zero Cinch-RCA in my systems. Only balanced. | |
| Why aren’t BNC jacks common? The question also could be posed in the past tense as, "Why wasn't BNC more common before for audiophiles?" Today, between (a) streaming over ethernet or Wi-Fi and (b) and the portion of the community that has taken up upscaling using ethernet or... | |
| A Disc Review: The Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now!! Thank you so much for the backstory here! Whites Off is part of my routine track selection for listening with new equipment. I often do not get past State Trooper (track two Springsteen cover) as I start the album again from track one (Lightnin' H... | |
| Replacing Roon - What Should I get? Is the dCS Lina in your main system and you have something else upstairs? Do you want access to the same SSD of music files both upstairs and downstairs? If yes, then you need that library on the network. Just checking online, this looks totally d... | |
| Flying in the US or CAN lately with an amp or other big electronics as carry-on? I took an oversized, aluminium shelled DAC through from Pearson to Germany via Heathrow last year. I brought needed mini specialty tools along in case they wanted me to open it at Pearson. Passing between one Heathrow terminal and another, my tool... | |
| Confused about DSD playback on Mac Yup, to borrow from PC Mag: „DoP (DSD over PCM)enables high-resolution DSD audio playback on macOS by encapsulating DSD data into 176.4/24 PCM frames, as macOS does not natively support raw DSD transport. A DoP-compatible USB DAC is required to un... | |
| I asked ChatGPT about me and my posts... The AIs are stochastic models that provide what they have been trained to identify as probably being right. If you ask one to summarize what you as an audiophile commentator recommend for an audiophile subject about which you never posted, the AI ... | |
| Are audiophile R2R tapes worth the money if you do not have a professional R2R deck? There is probably no rabbit-hole deeper and more complex, especially if you add on DSD256 high definition tape transfer (HDTT). An electrical engineering background is recommended. It is not enough to invest twenty grand in a Merrill Audio preamp.... | |
| Steven Wilson "Remasters/Remixes" What's Your Experience? It is a mixed bag. Some are good. Some are not so good. Unfortunately, I have not kept good notes on which are which. I definitely have a strong opinion though that the lead vocals for surround music should not be mixed into the centre speaker. ... | |
| Suggestions for audiophile grade receiver for Home theater setup Indeed a good, well-matching centre channel speaker is highly recommended for movie watching. I find with surround music though that it often is better to have a saved setup that splits the centre channel between the front left and rights. This is... | |
| Suggestions for audiophile grade receiver for Home theater setup If you like your NAD Class-D power amps, then look at an NAD Class-D Receiver, continuing to use the stereo amps you have now for front left and right in surround sound too by way of passthrough. This should get you use of their Bluesound app too,... | |
| What would you choose? Schiit Vider 2F, PS Audio S300, or wildcard? VTV is also from Ohio: https://vtvamplifier.com/ | |
| What is your favorite Class D amp? Does anyone with experience using custom op amps with Class D amps have views on using such buffer boards just for the woofers? I have a three-way active system with Benchmarks for the mid-ranges and tweeters. For the 10-inch Purifi woofers, I hav... |