Recent content by Rodolfo

The only discrete DACs I've owned are in portable digital audio players. There are broad ranges of brands, power, price, and features available in a now-quite-mature and growing audio segment. I have two HiBy players that I use in the house, mostly in the evening. and for travel in the same...

Get a new bike or a subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited: "slightly more beefy speakers" have never been worth it, and from your neat ones for other wall- and corner-friendly ones is especially doubtful. Trialing returnables would be the only way I'd scratch this, and if you have the spare...

One of my first 3 or 4 CD purchases in 1985 with my first CD player and my move to "separates" - I don't recall even knowing about or considering an LP version. Still listen to it regularly, especially 4 tracks, though most often it is through FLAC rips of the disc. It is one of the few...

Welcome to the Forum from a fellow-S22 owner! Here's my belated contribution, for you and others. LDAC has been available on android since version 9 (my LG V30's peak), which is 6 years/versions old/ago and that coincided roughly with when LDAC was awarded its Hi-Resolution Wireless...

3 more considerations/biases: A. Looks matter (speaking of Sensibility) B. Distinctive tweeters are under-appreciated/considered C. Power is over-appreciated/considered

Rough and highly variable estimates: 50% streaming my own digital music files, 40% Amazon Prime video, and 10% Amazon Music apps: 0% podcasts and 0% music videos.

My main setup has had 1 through 4 equipment for years. Two internet radios are my 6. Other, unless that would also fit under "Streaming". CDs have been my only continuous source since 1985 and my sine qua non this century. I use all four "formats", but 3 CD players and a ton of CD FLAC and...

Don't know where you're located nor what might be available to you, but if your crackling troubleshooting is not successful and you're ready for a new (or used) option, Onkyo produces good "reasonably-priced" equipment. I've only used their reasonably-priced, excellent CD players, with which...

Welcome, S! I can recommend a -would have to be used- Nakamichi SoundSpace 8 as excellent . I have a Bluetooth receiver connected through its RCA aux-in input. It comes in black or silver. I have the nice silver, but today I'd pay a premium for a premium black issue. Availability is probably...

I have six devices connected to my integrated. I believe only the two analogue devices can be powered off "completely" of "fully". The four digital ones are each moved to a "standby" state regardless of the labeling on the units or the remotes, whether it's "power", "standby", "on", "off", etc...

Depending on your level or breath of interest, and if you would especially appreciate a musician/producer's perspective, I can recommend two CDs by Bob James: Rameau, and The Scarlatti Dialogues. I specifically recommend the liner notes in the CDs in which the Rhodes Scholar describes and...

Here's a link to a review of the pretty TEAC. Personally, I'd hold out for a fully-automatic version. |wink| http://www.audiophile.no/en/articles-tests-reviews/item/2539-test-teac-tn-4d-en

You say it as if it's a meaningless or inferior tactic against "pops and farts". I have a decades-old Deema Carbotex Antistatic carbon fiber brush that still keeps my newer and older records sufficiently clean and quite quiet. I also keep a nice little also-old brush next to it to stroke my...

Welcome to the forum, A. Excuse the delay, and I hope it is an appropriate place for an idea, because otherwise this will probably be deleted. I've used digit audio players (or DAPs), for years. My current and maybe forever device is a HiBy M300. It is super light and compact, and reproduces my...

Note that this is a JadeAudio -a Fiio subsidiary- DAP, rather than one from Fiio proper. Indeed Fiio has just followed up with its own M21. The JM21 has a lot of very mixed -lots worst- postings at its head-fi.org device pages. I have no experience with it.