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  1. Hiya.... Supercool Just for the sake of curiosity, - will the enclosure be the same?
  2. GAH… This is a stupid good sonic upgrade. All for $30, - don’t mean to be a cliche, - but sonics were awesome already. Everybody loves this and is talking about more detail, quieter presentation, better separation and spatial queues, more accurate tonal representation of instruments. But, - holy crap, - I was listening at low volume and some of the lower bass in the music made me think that someone was outside in a car that goes BOOM, turned up to 11. My building is old, and yeah… the windows were rattling…so … i turned that shit up….. Congrats, - this is great stuff….
  3. Love your end quote... ”just say no to Roon.” I sure do hope that they make another “Friends” reunion, - I think that the algorithm may be calling for it.....
  4. It’s all just art and has no universalizable value. I value songwriting. I don’t expect anyone to agree, other than the folks who value the same things that I do in music art. I apologize. I recognize that I’m just lamenting the loss of “bands,” - the homogenization of N. American Music and “art” and (what i dislike) USA culture: that simply does not value creative “rock” music. It’s all good, - it is highly likely that Adele is yet another victim of music industry oppression. The point that I may have been trying to make, (possibly poorly), is that by trying to get a streaming org to go AOR goes against not only it’s weltaunchauung, but the culture and institutions in which she lives and breathes and has brought her the great success that she achieved.
  5. I wrote what i wrote. the show American Idol was almost entirely made up of horrible, Sinatra/Crosby-like, crooners who neither wrote, nor performed music. And were rewarded with a (sic) recording contract. You can’t slide a razorblade between Adele & Britney Spears. How is that unclear?
  6. This is true. IME, - most major artists hear their recording on the radio, 2+ years after. Of course, - (in my opinion), - it’s an enormous stretch to call American Idol-like-singers and people who don’t compose or arrange music “artists.”
  7. This is embarrassing for just about everyone when a record company employee goes “off script” and says something that dumb. In this case, - likely dumb enough so that the “label” doesn’t even do anything. Of course, - we all have bigger things to worry about AFA the death of all new music: so i gotta call hypocrisy on myself. The way to get “street cred” or any kind of integrity is to go collaborate with folks like Manu Chao, or Efterklang & get very, very, very, far away from the USA. Can anyone Imagine Adele in a recording studio? “Here, - read/sing these words from this sheet of paper twice on your way to your hair appointment: and in a year and a 1/2, - you’re going to get a brand new record, - and we’ll make sure it’s NUMBER 1”
  8. So nice to see someone comparing performance to CD. This is what it’s all about isn’t it? To bring digital file player performance closer to CD. I honestly think that many audiophiles are still in the “lets-get-this-working” phase, - and “wow, - isn’t this convenient.”
  9. Hi... thanks for replying... Sometimes when I take a stop and reflect, - i think that it is very easy for folks to keep “pushing” to try and improve something that has a finite ability to be improved. As a songwriter & musician, - I have to catch myself and tell myself that whatever I’m playing out with the playback system will still NEVER approach my Rickenbacker bass & Gibson guitars making signals through my amps: which is very often 4 or 5 generations of recordings once the recorded music becomes “playable” on a system. I just bought a $150 LPS for my NAS, - 2 rooms away from my main system, and further for each of the bedroom’s, garage etc. I wasn’t expecting any changes in the garage or bedrooms, but heard a slight improvement in the main system. This was worth it as I had that money lying around that i didn’t need for food. (Would anyone buy a LPS for their Dell optiplex PC if they’re plugging in a set of headphones that ship with their LG phone)? Depending on the rest of your SYSTEM, many of these super low power digital, networked, single-purpose, mini-computers really could use an LPS, “better” clocking, and signal regeneration. If you’ve spent anywhere near the $13K on a Meitner based playback system, - you’re not going to use a wall-wort SMPS, or a wall-wort SMPS with a Razberri Pi, - just like you wouldn’t plug your Meitner into a Denon receiver with a set of stand mount NHT monitors. If one purchases an OpticalRendu, LPS, USB & optical ethernet SFPs or FMCs, - they’re still never going to push 1/4 of the price of a Meitner DAC. My goal has always been to get the digital file part “closer” to my redbook level playback on my APL. I’ve gotten pretty close so far, - sometimes I can’t tell with redbook discs, but SACD discs still sound better. And I’m lucky enough to flick a switch on the remote and directly compare disc playback with digital file playback. Would a $600 LPS improve the quality of my $800 (all in) QNAP NAS? I’ll never know. $1000 for my NAS/File Server is as far as I’m willing to go... Cheers,
  10. Hello.... In my opinion, - I would say that an LPS CAN POSSIBLY be a good thing to have. If you have a $300 Sony DAC, and $600 Sony speakers with a Denon receiver, - no LPS in an multi-function PC on your audio rack is going to matter. I think that it’s a good idea to think of things as a music playback system, - not selecting or acquiring “good” individual components. For example: my bedroom system performs much worse than my main living room system. I use a Squeezebox Touch and play back music files from a (dining room located) NAS via its internal AKM DAC to an integrated amp. Using a linear power supply for that Squeezebox makes almost no difference compared to the wall-wart. Defeating the LCD screen on the Squeezebox Touch makes more of a difference. I also have a Squeezebox Radio for the garage that a friend gave me, - it would be foolish of me to put a LPS on that.... (Multi-function) computers are noiseboxes IMO. If your file server/computer is on, - or near, - your audio-rack, a greater difference will likely be made by locating it to another room and using a dedicated DF Player, (or network or USB extender), - that is if you have an analog system of “good-enough” performance. Finally, - LPSs are not all created equal. You can buy an $11 JameCo LPS & it doesn’t in any way perform as well as (an appropriately used) LPS that are designed and produced by some of the excellent manufacturers that are discussed here.
  11. True that, - this is all art... and defined by, what “artists” say it is: that is no real universalizable definition. One can derive objective statements to subjective areas: “John McLaughlin can play more distinct notes per a given time measure of musical phrases than Eric Clapton.” Of course, - many people might not value that at all, and say “so what.” I can’t understand why people do this with classifications as well. In the past the record labels told the record stores where to put their releases in what bins, in what section, of the store. I never found Frank Zappa records in the Jazz section, or Hugh Masekela either. A lot of say, - “that’s not jazz” Which translates as: “I don’t like it, so it’s not good jazz to me.”
  12. I don’t really disagree... But speaking as a songwriter, - there’s a big difference between writing music and cramming notes into a measure. He has written some powerful, and beautiful melodies. Also, he is not a singer, - so not sure where that comes from. I also regard Joe Satriani as a “not-very-good” guitar player, - whereas Frank Zappa is a great guitar player. For me, (Clapton) he’s just another part of a late 60s songwriting “team” that lost their muse. (I exclude Ginger Baker from that statement). But then, (as a matter of opinion), i don’t expect anyone to agree with me, - speed is always going to take a backseat to songwriting: a great guitar player, like a great horn player, has the confidence to hold just one note, or not play at all, when it’s needed/required.
  13. So awesome... you’re killing me over here.. So want to hear this DAC. I have been an APL DACs/Universal Player owner since 2003 & found it to be better than any other that I’ve heard: inclusive of the wonderful Meitner’s. I was lucky enough to visit Alex several times and hear a lot of his work. In addition, - i learned a lot during those visits.... We really miss Alex here in the Bay Area....
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