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If you play an album via a streaming service just as much as you would play a physical album the artist would earn the same with services like Qobuz. Let's say you play an album 50 times, and an album has 12 tracks. Qobuz pays about 0,02 USD per track streamed. The artist get 10...20%. So the...

Something simple is just play CD's. I ripped all my CD's years ago, but bought a CD player again, because it's much nicer to play CD's than fiddling on a smartphone screen to find the albums. And if I don't want to play a CD, I stream the music from Tidal.

You can check the dynamics and see if there's (much) clipping in the track. But there's nothing wrong with compressed sound or clipping, as long as it was the intention of the producer/artist. For example: I think the two albums Taylor Swift made with Aaron Dessner sound great. But from a purist...

In this case I would buy two Sonos Amps or Bluesound PowerNodes. Than you have networking/streaming functionality, multiroom playing and enough power to fill these rooms. A bit more than 1k, but more versatile and you don't have the issues with 4 speakers to one amp at the same time. And less...

A few years back there was a Dutch TV documentary about electronic music. Andy McCluskey of OMD was interviewed and one of the questions was about whether is was "real music". He grabbed the camera an panned over the keyboards and asked the question: "Wheres's the button 'Make a hit record'?".

I should've written this last week, but this weekend I bought a Fiio KR11 DAC/Headphone amp. My old AKG K701 never sounded better that with this amp. And the KR11 feels really solid and has a proper power supply. Unbelievable for just 140 euro or so.

I wouldn't use it in the analogue chain. For room correction the signal is digitised so you loose all the benefits of analogue.

What you can do in that case is to choose music you really know very well, and check if you hear something that you haven't heard with your current speakers. And make notes of what you hear. You can use that to try other speakers at an other location. Not ideal but probably the best option...

Exactly. And you only need a very small difference to get the impact. Less than 1 dB is sufficient to stand out.

yes, or the WiiM ultra.

Volume levels were exactly the same?

To answer the question in the title of this topic: NO...

I have a pair of Oberon 1's with a Sonos Amp in my kitchen and it can play very loud without sounding sharp. EQ is flat, speakers 30 cm from the wall, no toe in. Do you have the same experience with another amp (i.e. not the WiiM amp)?

I'm still hoping my Quad pre- and power amp from 1989 will finally die so I can justify buying something new :-). I haven't heard anything newer that's worth the investment. Yes, there are some better amps, but the improvement is not worth thousands of euros. but the money is standing-by to get...

In-built streaming will be obsolete in a few years. This amp will probably stil work in 20...30 (or more) years. Software simply can't be kept up to date in such a timeframe. And of course, you can hook up another streamers if the in-built one is not supported anymore, but having a function in a...