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What drew me to vinyl.

Stop this project right now. I am perfectly happy with my V.3 Zuma outfit and do not want to be tempted to purchase something better. My only gripe is that waking-up the Zuma wiith the JRiver Ipad app is sometimes problematical: I am often required to go over and push the button on the unit! What a nightmare. Signed, A. Troglodyte

Our dear leader's ACER T272HUL is to big for my shelf. Anyone have a recommendation for a touchscreen under say, 20"? How about this GeChic 1502I 15.6" job?

I bought a DS413 about a week ago and have had at least 6 suggestions from customer support on how to get the thing to go into hibernation, i.e. so the fans turn off. with no success at all. The instructions clearly state that the unit will go into hibernation and the fans will go off. Occasionally I see it go into hibernation after removing the network cable, but even that is not consistent. So if you can live with wasting energy and a customer support team that is unable to fix this problem, good luck. $500 is a lot of money to me and I'm going to return the unit. I suggest you check out Synology's forums before you commit. Synology Inc. Online Community Forum • View topic - DS413 with DSM 4.1-2650 hybernating only briefly Does anyone know if the Qnap above mentioned has a problem like the DS413?

This is pure class from Hugh Laurie. [VIDEO] Here's the amazingly talented Hugh at the oldest recording studio in L.A., doing "Unchain My Heat"

After receiving and installing my new Zuma CAPS 3, (which I like very much thanks to Chris and Andrew at Small Green Computer), we had a blind listening test. The subject was a recording of the SanFrancisco Symphony of “Short Ride In A Fast Machine. “ One, an accurate rip from the CD, and the other was a 24/88 download from HDTracks. One person randomly played a selection of the 2 and recorded his actions. The listener recorded his choice and in 5 out of 5 cases was able to distinguish the Hi res track from the CD. The obvious winner was the 24/88. Right near the beginning there is run of triplets (I think) by the piccolo and the CD definitely has a slight smear this passage. As far as I am concerned the only way to evaluate any device, system or recording is by blind testing. Humans are full of biases. We believe the hype, the opinions of others and consider the cost of what we are trying to evaluate. Sometimes the differences are so small that they are hardly worth the often extravagant pricing by some manufacturers. (Yes I know all about the law of diminishing returns in the audio world.) Try this: Go to a good audio store with a blindfold. Before you go into the demo room tell the salesperson you want to hear say three sets of speakers all in the same price range and one additional pair that is much more expensive. Put your blindfold on, go into the room and listen. You might be surprised and you might save some money too. Or of course you might spend a lot more money too... what fun. I take all of the hype, claims and reviews about audio with a large dose of salt. If at all possible friends, try to do a blind testing before buying, especially with something like DACs and don't even get me started about the sonic difference between USB cables!

I bought a Zuma last week and have recently discovered that JRiver will not play Pandora. Damn. Any suggestions on how to get this to work while using a Nexus 7 tablet as a remote? The Gizmo app is just fine for JRiver. I tried a remote desktop for the Nexus called “Splashtop,” but that is way too clumsy. Matt at JRiver says in their forum: “We've never been able to get Pandora to talk to us, and they don't provide an SDK” so perhaps someday. Thanks people. And thanks for this wonderful site. Card