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| Pontus ii and Hi Res @tcotruvo Standard Cat6 Ethernet cable is rated to 10Gbps over 180 feet. That’s probably at least 10x the bandwidth from your ISP even if you have fiber, and more than 1000 times the bandwidth of HiRes audio streaming… | |
| Stereophile Scamming Subscribers? This is not an unusual practice in magazine subscriptions, and it also occurs with things like credit cards. A company will send out different offers ($X for Y years for a subscription, or $W annual fee with Z% interest rate for a credit card) -- ... | |
| Dropouts when steaming with WiFi connection (Amazon Music). If wireless is unreliable, you might look into either of these two solutions: 1. Ethernet over Powerline. This only requires a wall outlet near you router and one near your streamer. Something like this: 2. I have managed to sneak Ethern... | |
| Best Examples Of Cymbal Decays On A Recording The album "Benzaiten" by Osamu Kitajima (1974) has a variety of cymbals, triangles, and various Japanese percussion instruments that make it a great test record (as well as a testament to how creative a musician can be before being lured to LA for... | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? Eardrum in Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square), ~1980. JVC receiver, Technics turntable, Nakamichi tape deck and a dbx compressor (dolby vs dbx was still undecided then), Polk Audio Monitor 7's. | |
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| Hint: Change your Wi-Fi frequency to avoid interference with neighbors router As other stated, wired is the way to go. If you can’t get wired Ethernet to your system’s location, there are a few options: 1. Ethernet over power (NOT Power over Ethernet). There are adapters that will send Ethernet over your electrical lines, ... | |
| Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair More like the “Chicken and the entire nest egg” question… | |
| In the US, how is your internet connection terminated in the home? Some civilized parts of the USA also have fiber connections. In that case, the fiber terminates at an ONT (Optical Network Terminator), which generally has a regular RJ45 connector, and talks plain old Ethernet protocol to your router/firewall (i.... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) A long time ago, music was very simple; then it became more complex (and therefore more expressive). Now it’s become less expressive again, which some interpret as "it sucks." Up until the year 1000 AD music was only played with the seven natural... | |
| Which device makes for a better digital music source? Computer or streamer? I started with the Node 2i, then moved to using the Node with with an external DAC (Shiit Modi Multibit). The rest of the system is Primaluna EVO 300 pre into two Primaluna EVO 100's used to biamp a pair of B&W CM7's, plus a Sunfire True sub s... | |
| What's on your Dac tonight? Eumir Deodato - Prelude (CTI 40th Anniversary Ed.) George Benson - Breezin' | |
| Most Realistic Recordings I nominate John Coltrane’s album My Favorite Things. In the Qobuz HiRes mastering (24/192), the imaging is superb: I can clearly delineate the exact location and even the angle of McCoy Tyner’s piano, the locations of Steve Davis and Elvin Jones, ... | |
| Not manufactured any more. The original Polk Mini Monitors! I used these in the back of my hatchback 1981 Honda, along with a dbx cassette player and a power amp as my car stereo system... but only for long road trips. They were removable with banana plugs, so the thugs ... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment The Denafrips Pontus II DAC + IRIS DDC combo yielded a quantum leap in SQ over my previous DAC, the Schiit Modi Multibit. |