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Is AI going to kill Hifi?
Humans tend to love shortcuts, AI provides a more efficient use of one's time. Benefits of AI will gain salience through marketing,/propaganda, costs will be hidden and/or ignored.   
Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only.
Some bad info on this thread, Zelle, Venmo, Cash App and the like are not without substantial risks, I wouldn't use any of them for big ticket transactions with strangers. I'm selling a car at this very moment on facebook marketplace, mostly time ... 
Streamer Options Needed
One relatively cheap alternative is the Teradak linear power supply for mac mini. You've already done good thing with the OS mod, lps for mini is the other major improvement for sound quality with the mini. A mini with modded OS and lps is somethi... 
Attention Horn Owners
Meant to say wood horns.  
Attention Horn Owners
With the modded Khorns hard pinned info really extends into room, but at the same time I have a wonderfully deep center sound stage which can also extend out into room. I've had narrow baffle box loudspeakers in the past which made speaker disappe... 
Vinyl that is impossible to find
I don't get the digital on vinyl thing. If there is digital provenance anywhere  in release I prefer listening to the streams. The fully unique sound qualities of vinyl can only be appreciated via fully analog releases. And then if original master... 
CD's or Vinyl?
Physical media already somewhat obsolete in that vast majority of available media is used. Fewer and fewer new releases on vinyl or cd, especially true for cd. I continue to keep in touch with vinyl availability since I still run a pretty nice vin... 
Popping sound
Hopefully its something simple and/or external to your system. Tube starting to fail would be simplest and most easily resolved issue if issue is in system. If popping doesn't resolve itself via any of the methods suggested above I'd not continue ... 
CD's or Vinyl?
For many of us cd's have become redundant since we have at least equal sound quality via rips and streams. Vinyl not redundant since it has unique sound qualities, meaning all analog provenance. If vinyl has any digital provenance that uniqueness ... 
Audio Grade Ethernet Cable
We've long heard the same argument used in regard to AC and the last few feet.    
Audio Grade Ethernet Cable
I haven't used internet provided modems or routers for many years. Providers servers not more than 30 miles from me so ping times very fast, also have 1gig service so fast download, upload speeds, finally gaming router for low latency.    I did ... 
Audio Grade Ethernet Cable
@cleeds You're correct on that everything needs to be addressed. Streamers are quite distinct from networks, what they are fed is critical. Saying that networks don't matter is akin to saying what's upstream from any interface is not important. Th... 
Audio Grade Ethernet Cable
Salient point I neglected to address in regard to AC quality. It seems commonplace now that adding lps to every streaming component results in better sound quality, and to this end I see more people adding lps to routers and modems. One of the com... 
Audio Grade Ethernet Cable
I clearly stated the advantage or benefit of providing clean AC via my dedicated lines and power conditioning to both modem and router. The greatest benefit for diminishing router noise is the disabling of wifi. As for self generated noise, minus ... 
Audio Grade Ethernet Cable
I should add the one thing I have yet to address is whether the amount of network traffic impacts streaming sound quality, my scheme doesn't address this. This is where the Dejitter Switch X managed switch comes in. With this managed switch a 'tru...