Recent content by NewAlkyogre

A thing of me since the invasion I stopped listening alot of Russian music. Tchaikovski is acceptable because from an earlier period, but those begin 20th century symphonies is army music. For instance::there is no way I can enjoy Shostakovich 7th Leningrad symphony

I don’t need AI for optimization. My ears are the best measuring instrument available. What AI cannot know: I am deaf below and above certain frequencies. So I only can adjust the settings to my personal taste and if another person with better ears hears too many treble and bass, I don’t care 🤷‍♂️

Time for Mahler. This time the 3rd and the 5th symphony with the wonderful adagio.

You don't have to go to the best player to enjoy piano music. Here in my country there are piano's at certain train stations. It is really impressive what some amateur players perform.

The common linnets II

No brainer: Qobuz has the best SQ

No, because Tidal/Qobuz streams are with 192kHz 24 bit better then cd quality 44 kHz/16 bit.

An "oldie" Buckingham Nicks

Like the Iphone 17 pro 😂 To be honest, I love that color on that phone, but an orange device between silver and black audio gear is a mismatch

It was before my time buying high end audio. What happened in 1998/1999?

The wages in the USA are much higher then in Europe, and here people spend alot on speakers, and the other parts, are midrange/budget. For many they cannot afford spending 100k euro on a setup, and if they can, the wife has an opinion about that. Understand your point, when you pay high end...

The high end market is difficult. Far too many brands for a niche market. Hardly nobody wants to spend over then 5k for a streamer and they acquire a Wiim instead.

Because there are amazing non oversampling dacs on the market oversampling is not needed. That means, no extra server, just one streamer that has an easy task to do, bring the ones and zero’s to the dac where it is converted to an analogue signal. Why an extra machine and processor power, while...

In my opinion lossless is misleading marketing and giving the impression that the incoming signal is being oversampled and that is not true, 44 kHz is the same sample rate as a cd. Secondly: due to limitations in physics 24 bit does not exist, because of deviations in the capacitors, trafo...

In pop music I miss Freddy Mercury. Mick Jagger, Meat Loaf, Tina Turner, Mark Knopfler, Prince, Roger Waters, Chris Martin