timothy468
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| I built what Tidal and Qobuz won't. And people are loving it. I am all in - for $30 I feel that this sort of app needs support (almost no matter what). I shall now spend far too much time exploring it! Tim | |
| Record Store Day 2026. I got three - John Prine BBC recordings, Iris Dement The Way I Should and Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris. I bought all three online after 5 pm Sunday and am lucky to have been able to do so. But standing in line overnight? Nope. Ever since I did t... | |
| What are My Options for Ripping My CD Collection ? I took the advice of several folks here and bought a used Innuos MK3 Zen ripper/streamer and it has been a superb choice for me. Reading the responses, though, if I had over 4000 CD's it would have taken forever. Instead, my several hundred that I... | |
| Observations - Trying to audition a Hana cartridge before buying That is a superb cartridge. When I needed an MC cartridge, I wrote to Definitive Audio (a dealer that is about 60 miles away from me) and this cartridge was strongly recommended for my system, and the comments were: "I like the Hana and Dynavecto... | |
| Advice on speaker cables. I have good quality Transparent speaker wires from my local seller of audio equipment that are 25 feet long (needed for my setup). They made them from scratch in their shop when I bought my amp and turntable from them, but available online for abo... | |
| A Disc Review: The Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now!! Bought it and love it. A terrific advantage of reading the posts here is learning about something I never would have otherwise. Tim | |
| What to do with very low offer on an item for sale Years ago abroad, a few of us were swapping stories of bargaining and my friend David told me of an attempt to buy a rug in a rug shop in Cairo. He offered what he thought was a well-crafted low-ball offer, in hopes of moving to an acceptable plac... | |
| An experience I had with a seller. Seems he asked a simple question - "Why is this bothering me?" Most of us absorb what might be seen as abusive language as a personal affront and respond emotionally to that. If the initial encounter was seen (by the OP) as an altruistic comment ... | |
| Why in some instances does changing streamers makes a bigger difference? I have a mostly Laiv Harmony system and love it, but as for a streamer, I have used both a BlueSound Node and an Innuos streamer/ripper (ZEN MK3) and I found that a DDC inbetween them helped the sound I heard. A line conditioner up front helped as... | |
| Which turntable is better? In my personal experience the Mofi Ultradeck is the best balance of quality and value for the money spent. I am delighted with mine. My experience of the others is limited to showrooms and only mildly lengthy analyses of their, or my friend's per... | |
| I asked ChatGPT about me and my posts... Fascinating exercise! Here is what I got when I asked the same question: Good God, you are a tool! You aren't much, but you're all you think about! You provide highly opinionated but frequently grossly incorrect answers and quickly delve into a... | |
| Are all R2R dacs slow and soft? I have a Laiv Harmony DAC and it is crisp, precise and presents an accurate reproduction of music I know very well. I would not use the terminology of either soft or slow to describe it, but I am uncertain what you mean by that also, perhaps. But ... | |
| DAC recommendations under $7K A Laiv Harmony DAC (+/- the addition of their DDC - I have that also) is a very precise and accurate device that does not distort at all. I think it punches above its weight class personally. The micro-DDC does not add much to the size of the setu... | |
| Take it on faith: A cease-and-desist letter to those who only believe in measurements “In my quest for the secret of life I started my research in histology. Unsatisfied by the information that cellular morphology could give me about life, I turned to physiology. Finding physiology too complex, I took up pharmacology. Still finding... | |
| How much tariff if buying $10k from Japan? No personal experience with Japan, but for several other puchases (from Singapore, England and Poland), the approach and experience varied quite a bit. The dollar amount for the tariff from Poland was added on as an import or duty cost by FedEx. I... |