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| Please Help!! looking to get into computer audio. @sun-warrior "So isolation has nothing to do with choosing computer or NAS as server." I see your point, but for the benefit of others, let's clarify that if your attach either 1) a computer and any attached hard drives or 2) a NAS to a router(us... | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? Because standard computers use large amounts of electricity and generate large amounts of noise. Many processes running on your computer degrade sound quality of the signal that you send to your DAC. RFI and grounding issues only complicate matter... | |
| The King Of... Sure they had a couple of dance club hits, but that doesn't make Yaz a disco band. While one of my favorite new bands in their day, they only lasted a couple of albums and were never kings of anything. If we want to pigeonhole them to a genre labe... | |
| Speakers Corner You should clean them anyway. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Help Picking a turntable You really need to spend a bunch of time reading archived posts and talking with those with some analog experience. Since you don't have a collection of LPs and haven't mentioned anything about the issues you'll run into with vinyl (e.g. cleaning ... | |
| Please Help!! looking to get into computer audio. Yes, you can run the microRendu without a NAS in some setups, but most don't. Part of the beauty of it is that it's like a Swiss Army knife, so you can use it with NAS running Mimimserver(free) and control your music on tablet with free apps like ... | |
| Please Help!! looking to get into computer audio. @whinoman The Sonore microRendu is a remarkable sounding network media player and streamer which has exceeded the performance of many other higher priced solutions. The catch is that it has one ethernet input (so you store your music on a Network ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Which Nels Cline album? He is really something! For me right now, Spoon - Gimmer Shelter.Cheers,Spencer | |
| Individual International Seller Scam @elberoth2 Great advice! Cheers,Spencer | |
| Corner Placement Across the corners is worth trying in squarish rooms. A number of manufs have conquered some hotel demo rooms with that setup. Cheers,Spencer | |
| SS to valve Those Tannoys @ 92db will work well with plenty of valve aka tube amps; you don't need a ton of power. I haven't heard those Gamuts so hard to compare. Also, many different tube amps have very different sonic signatures. It will be tough for you t... | |
| Are there any active DC area audio groups/clubs/etc ? (I am in Reston) John Gatski called me a few months ago to brainstorm around his plans for trying to get an audio group going in the DC area, with assistance from Gary Gill, the Cap Fest organizer. You can reach out to John via http://everythingaudionetwork.blogsp... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 As I assisted Doug White on Saturday in The Voice That Is room showing Tidal & Brinkmann, please let me shed a bit more light. On Friday, after a comment was made, Doug acknowledged there was a problem that sounded like a simple out-of-phase w... | |
| Who is you go to for top quality vinyl Yes, Rumours and to a lesser degree S/T are both great sounding reissues. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Looking for a wiring diagrahm for an Ars Sonus Filarmonia SJ Ask Rich Brkich at Signature Sound in Liverpool, NY. He'd probably know. Cheers,Spencer |