moonwatcher
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| Is AI going to kill Hifi? @mylogic We are a long ways from the 1970s. Take a look at this and the capabilities of current A.I. in making derivative music based on nearly every piece of music created by humans. And it will only get better and better. Don’t misunderstand m... | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? They just need to be sure to teach it Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"... Or have a good "off" switch available. | |
| Buying used from Canada @cleeds, nope it is not "fiction". Look it up. I hope you know how to use Google. Lumber, furniture, dairy, and poultry. | |
| Buying used from Canada Canada has had sky high tariffs on American goods for decades, some as high as 250%. Trump is trying to level the playing field. Canada currently has an imbalance of trade with us of about $50 billion. Trump would like them to get that down to aro... | |
| Do I still need a DDC in between? @lanx0003 ah, that Singxer SU-6 looks a lot better...Thanks. Just wonder what numbers the OP would end up with going directly from his Volumio Rivo Plus to the LAIV Harmony DAC via I2S? Would they be helped by the Singxer SU-6? Thanks for the in... | |
| Do I still need a DDC in between? Your Gustard U18 mitigates jitter to as low as 38fs according to the specs. Have you seen anything in the other DAC or source that says they beat that? | |
| And a Happy 4th to all! Happy Independance Day! Listen to something good! | |
| Leave it on? I would go by whatever the manufacturer recommends. Generally, I leave most of my gear "on" or in "standby". If I owned a Class A solid state or tube amp, I'd likely turn it off in the summer to keep from heating up the room too much but might le... | |
| Have some fun with bookshelf monitors!! If you only had $1000 or less, then I'd get the relatively new Triangle Borea BR04 bookshelf speakers. They have a better crossover than the BR03, and are a bit larger, and play down to 44Hz in room. I got a pair for a steal and love them for what... | |
| Qobuz vs Airplay John Darko did a deep dive into Airplay a few months ago. It is lossy. At best it provides 320Kbps .aac files and often goes to less than that depending on how close you are and other factors. A very long time ago when Airplay first came out, it w... | |
| Why the huge increase in the price of Sonus Farber Amanti G5 speakers. I remember a video a year or two ago by Paul McGowan of PS Audio saying his son had SF speakers, but Paul said they were NOT "audiophile" to him, meaning they didn’t provide all the detail he considered important. Nothing against SF. They sure are... | |
| Vinyl-sourced files at Tidal (how common for stream services?) While these might indeed have been rips from an LP, keep in mind that after CDs had been around awhile, some idiot producers and engineers thought it would be "nostalgic and cute" to add in some vinyl noise (surface noise, snaps, crackles, and pop... | |
| Vinyl-sourced files at Tidal (how common for stream services?) I echo @cleeds here. All of these streaming services get whatever files the record labels send them - and we have to hope they aren't mislabeled by the labels as to providence. I've "helped" Tidal out more than once when an album wasn't correct in... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? My old Acoustic Research AR 9 speakers sounded great in the 1980s. But they need some work now. The old Callins capacitors are shot. I'm fortunate I found a local guy who specializes in rebuilding/refurbishing Polk Audio speakers and is willing to... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Ah, because of all the negative comments I had to check out Edith Piaf on Tidal as I had never heard of her. Whoa! Bad - but not any worse than Joan Baez with that vibrato making her sound like a cassette played on a deck needing the rollers clean... |