herman
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| The Case for a Curated Hi-Fi Marketplace Built for the Die-Hards I'm not saying it can't work, but TMR pretty much does close to the same thing. TMR is a business that buys and sells gear. They buy well below market, which they must do in order to turn a profit. They also offer a consignment service that tak... | |
| why are sellers to be trusted, but buyers are not? well done Now that this has deteriorated into yet another childish pisssing contest I can unfollow it | |
| PayPal just blocked my account for using F&F PAYPAL has ALWAYS been a SCAM. The extra layers of PAYPAL just allows them to skim off fees, AND they profit from marketing your financial and spending info! DUH !! they are a for profit company that makes their money facilitating the transfer... | |
| PayPal just blocked my account for using F&F @mitch2 PP offers the option to use F&F and, while their instructions indicate suggestions of when/how it can be used, I do not remember reading any hard and fast rules about when it cannot be used. "You must not send money as a personal ... | |
| Cables & streamers @xmbw4 you are correct but if you want to get down into the weeds, technically a little bit off. your "XLR’s" turn into RCA’s by default because only 2 of the 3 conductors in the cable are being used. I know what you mean, but actually the ... | |
| PayPal just blocked my account for using F&F @ted_b problem with some sellers is they won’t accept regular PP even if you pay the extra to cover the fee as they not only want to cheat PP out their fee, they want to cheat the US out of taxes if they made a profit , so they don’t want a 1099. ... | |
| PayPal just blocked my account for using F&F I bought an item Wednesday on USAM, I used PayPal F&F and was charged a fee. So it's already here. You don't say how you paid, but pretty sure there was always a fee if you used a credit card. If you sent it internationally there was alwa... | |
| How Much Have You Spent On Cables Throughout The Years. I'm Shocked When I Checked. how about 5 traditional senses ? there seems to be some debate on how many more we have https://www.sensorytrust.org.uk/blog/how-many-senses-do-we-have | |
| How Much Have You Spent On Cables Throughout The Years. I'm Shocked When I Checked. we have 5 senses (unless you believe in ESP) sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing. I've never heard anybody claim they can exactly quantify by measurement what see, smell, taste, or feel. Yet the cult at ASR claims that they can measure and quanti... | |
| Buying Records Prices for vinyl are insane and continue to go up. Of course they continue to go up.. EVERYTHING continues to go up. Been to the grocery store lately? However, the prices are not "insane." 50 years ago an LP cost around $7-8. In 2025 dollars... | |
| Excellent sounding LPs However done buying vinyl now. Lucky I started decades ago, prices have gone through the roof. this is incorrect. Adjusted for inflation, new releases are no more expensive than they were 50-60 years ago. | |
| How much will I now pay in duties to ship a stylus from Japan? herman, If what you say is true, that shippers have to calculate tariff (duty) based on country of manufacture, not country from which the shipment originated, that seems really awkward Of course it is true. If not, companies from countries wi... | |
| How much will I now pay in duties to ship a stylus from Japan? Bipod, why would tariffs cause shipping delays? Delays happen because packages under $800 used to come straight in, and now the carriers have to assess every package that comes in. They have to figure what the tariff is on every package, which... | |
| AD Converter Options a few more thoughts.... any time you manipulate a digital file (whether it is to apply EQ, change the bit depth or the sample rate. or filter or change the file in any way) you create artifacts such as pre-ringing, or post ringing, or phase anomal... | |
| AD Converter Options I use an RME ADI2 Pro Black fs r for recording LPs at 32-bit. I’ve tried Lynx Hilo (only 24-bit) and a couple of Prism models. sorry, I read that as you used the RME at 32 bits and the Lynx at 24 bits. You didn’t state that you recorded at 32 ... |