ejr1953
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| Qobuz Windows App I spent some "quality time" investigating why the Qobuz app is so flaky on my Windows 10 Pro machine and the "smoking gun" is not the Qobuz app, but Windows. I keep this machine up to date with everything, and power it down when I'm done. It's n... | |
| Qobuz Windows App I run the Qobuz app on a powerful Windows10 Pro machine and I find the best way to avoid the slowness in the app is to boot up the machine well in advance of my listening session, so it has time to complete the startup anti-virus scan, and complet... | |
| Qobuz. My Qobuz trial was up tomorrow, decided to "take the plunge" and sign up for a year of the hi-res streaming plan. I find that they have a better selection of classical music and the search for that is a little better than Tidal. I'll be keeping ... | |
| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? It's very funny to me! There is no way you can evaluate how a speaker will sound, hooked up to your electronics, in your room, by using this method.I have a friend who is a software developer (smart about that), and once told me that he compared ... | |
| Qobuz. By the end of the week I'll be thru my month's trial of Qobuz and will need to decide if I'll buy a membership. I'm leaning to do so and to also keep my Tidal account as well.I do enjoy many (but not all of the) MQA masters on Tidal. If there's ... | |
| Do you listen to equipment or music. Interesting discussion.Back in the late 70’s I sold equipment at a high end shop in DC and as I got to be a better salesman I found I was pretty much wasting my time with those who listened to equipment before listening to the music, they hardly e... | |
| Enjoying My New Focal Sopra No2's I’ve used sub woofers in my systems for a while. I feel the bass that the Sopra’s have is very good, but I find that, once you get thru the process of getting subs well integrated with the room and speakers, the final result is more enjoyable. I... | |
| Equipment break in question I find that my new equipment takes a bit of break in time to sound its best, especially my speakers. I wouldn't say the differences are that "dramatic", but after enjoying my new speakers for about six months, one night I found that they finally ... | |
| Qobuz Coming to America Soon! I received an "invite" and installed the Qobuz Windows 64 bit app on my Windows10 Pro 64 bit, I7 quad core machine, with 16 gigs of memory. I'm about halfway thru the month's free trial.The app is "flaky", at times seems to go off doing "who know... | |
| Qobuz. I was offered a month's trial, installed the Qobuz 64 bit Windows app on my quad core I7/16 gig Dell machine, outputting to my DAC via USB. I also have the Tidal Windows app installed on the same machine. I have my audio system "hard wired" to m... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Erik,Your point is well taken.I've grabbed some of my really old CDs and with my modern disk transport and DAC, the sound quality I enjoy is often times really excellent!I would not necessarily associate the format of a digital source (i.e. 44.1/1... | |
| WASAPI vs. ASIO on Windows10? Thanks for all the great info! | |
| Why so many used focals? I was fortune enough to get a pair of Sopra No2's just after they were available in the U.S., over three years ago, and in my setup (to me) they sound fantastic!In my search for speakers I auditioned the Sopra's driven by some modestly powerful am... | |
| POWER CONDITIONERS FOR AUDIO QUALITY I have enjoyed a PS Audio DirectStream DAC & transport for years now. I used to have them (and my other components) plugged into a P10 power plant and took advantage of an upgrade to their new P15 unit, and immediately the performance of the ... | |
| Snake oil came first. By a likely ~ +50k years When I was in grad school I had an excellent Econ professor. Aside from her, most other academic economists I read seem to have a pre-conceived notion and find "facts" to "support" that point of view...with their "snake oil". She was from the "r... |