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I'm still glad I ordered a Diablo 300 from Mike! Should pair well with the Kharma DB9-S speakers I have coming.

Jim, I don't have to convince myself one way or the other anymore. I have long ago settled that argument by sitting down and comparing MQA on Tidal to Qobuz with Roon. I still have both Tidal and Qobuz. My ears did not agree with most of MQA. I...

I use Audirvana for the more serious headphone listening sessions. The SQ is a little bit to noticeably better, depending on the recording itself compared to Roon on desktop to my USB headphone Audeze Deckard Class A DAC/amp or Woo Audio tube amp...

Keep on telling yourself it sounds worse. That doesn’t make it correct.

The very paradox of high end audio, is that it should be impossible to capture the original sound without having affected and therefore changed it. If the main argument and design philosophy of audio gear is such that "everything changes sound",...

Both were painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, created some 8 years apart. I'm sure he used different brushes, different paint, different canvas, he was in a different mood, the light was different, at 1.3 Million miles per hour, the Milky Way Galaxy had...

Choices are definitely a good thing. One can chose to eat organic or one can choose to eat McDonalds... There are health benefits and there are simple taste preferences and habits that outweigh concerns over health for some. We can certainly...

As I have mentioned multiple times in various threads, we don't have a definitive standard to go by. There is no more of a bullseye to aim for with this hobby than there is admiring and comparing/contrasting the Mona Lisa to The Last Supper and...

All of this is pointless anyway. In the end, as is almost always the case with audiophiles, no one will be convinced. The side of MQA non believers will not go out of their way to warm up to it and the MQA followers will simply call this guy a...

Crankiness comes from realizing that hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent on gear and music only to realize that which was obvious from day one to others... MQA sounds worse and one does not need a few hundred thousand dollars of gear to...

I’m just glad that every week we get additional MQA titles to choose from. New music every week. New manufacturers adding capability to their gear. New sources to purchase downloads from. Must be crappy lives for all these individuals who aren’t...

Ahem... Yeah, I can name many more obvious items in audio besides MQA. This hobby has always been part science and artesian art of crafting good sounding, good measuring, scientifically backed designs and part "Having tea with the Mad Hatter,...

Wow, very nice. Thank you for the heads up.

Mike, I just watched the video with you and Jay discussing the Taiko Extreme on YouTube. Good video, mate! Well done.

Hey! Wait, what? How close to me? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Ballpark is $10k, but “TBD” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Me to Adam, good luck with the scamdemic.

Mike No, I didn't take time to listen to the new Alexx's. We were just catching up and talking life and audio in general after having not seen each other for some time due to Covid. I will give them a go at some point in the near future.

There’s some fabulous tier 1 & 2 brands like Soulution, AudioNet, Goldmund, etc. I’m going to just see what happens. Although a 725/711 combo remains dancing in my head. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’ve had some customers use uship.com with good success. I haven’t personally used it as we have several corporate accounts with SAIA, Pilot and others. We buy pallets (oh, by the way, if you buy 10 plastic pallets, they come....wait for...

Our business model of finding the best in all categories won’t work. They will probably have a small group of “all-in” dedicated dealers and I wish them luck. I’m sure Gryphon speakers, cables and racks are good, but nobody, and I mean...

Wow That should be awesome.

N-05XD | OVERVIEW | ESOTERIC:Japan high-end audio manufacturer | エソテリック I’m already thinking of amp combinations. Boulder 1161 Pass X250.8 Pass XA30.8 Sim 860V2 Luxman M900u Soulution 3 series

Since it’s in the AudioQuest room, we use an AQ Dragon Source. We use the V14 Digital on the Aurender in the front room (the Shunyata room). Oh, and I ordered my Aurender N30 yesterday for that room. Silver.

I'm down to a few dozen SACDs of my favorite performers. The over 1000 CD collection and the pointless (for me) rituals of storing them and hardly ever listening to the music I no longer care to listen to from three decades ago, was well, pointless...

Doh! I hate that when that happens.

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Yep, I get that! And, that's cool. I used to teach a business/product development best practice called Voice of the Customer, aka "VOC". A key principle of VOC is that all user's requirements are equally valid. Cheers.

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Fixed it! Had to add the Developer menu, then select Empty Caches. Back to normal now.

This is not dark mode.

I've done everything I can think of, including logging out, logging in, rebooting, refreshing the page, etc. Nothing works. Still looks way wonky in Safari on the MBP. Looks just fine in Google Chrome, Safari is now a mess. iOS apps are right out...

Sorry, but I don't like Tapatalk, specifically.

"Refreshed" sounds a bit less dramatic than "reloaded" these days... But both terms are applicable :cool:

Sorry, Refresh what?

Refresh is a good idea. ...Fresh apples. :)

Tapatalk works great. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Issues on my iPad here as well. Sometimes it needs to be refreshed a few times before everything goes back to normal. No issues with Windows. No big deal

Cool, you have a dark mode. :cool: ...I don't. :| How To Enable Dark Mode on Safari

Thanks, Mike, but I never use my phone or tablet when visiting internet forums, always the laptop. I don't know what happened, it seems to be application-specific, I don't see any changes using Google Chrome. Curiously, I don't see any issues at...

It’s on your end. No changes here. Use Tapatalk on phone or tablet when you can. If things go wonky, you’ll have dozens posting about it. If not, then it’s you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

It looks fine in a different browser, but I would prefer to use Safari for all my browsing, and not have to open Google Chrome just to visit Audioshark.

Freight. UPS and Fedex have weight limits of 150 pounds, but here’s the issue: Drivers are hired to lift up to 75 pounds. Anything over this and you risk them kicking it off the back of the truck. Strap to pallet. Use freight. Sent...

Every once in a while on refresh, Safari gives me a little wonky look. Please try a different browser and see if it continues. It has not happened to me in a while.

I think I've had issues with all the major shippers. Lately I've been using FedEx with great success, but please pack very, very well.