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I live in an apartment with neighbours next door and below me. I don't want to be a nuisance. And I already had to decouple the...

Well the 'normal' OS would be Windows from a statistical point of view. What is your point?

It's not designed for studio use though is it? Domestic use doesn't need any of that. Primary use case is probably attached to a network...

Dire Straits & Knopfler always cared about premium sound quality. Most or all of the DS albums were made available on SACD, as well as...

In my very limited experience a half-decent pair of headphones sounded a lot better than most Bluetooth ANC models. The ANC algorithm...

I ordered the batteries from China and found a YouTube video for the replacement steps. They now have a new lease on life and not yet...

I have a Sony SLH tape that was definitely shedding when recording and would clog the head over time. In fact, when I started out and...

We used to describe aged tape as "perished". The standard test to see if the tape was perished was to stretch a bit of the tail to see...

The problem is that baked tape *will* become sticky again, even if kept somewhere fairly dry. It's no longer a stable recording or...

https://www.wharfedale.eu/collections/elysian/products/elysian-4?variant=33771749244987 Black friday deal on the Elysion 4 €5K per pair...

I know I’m dredging up an old thread, but since this article is so detailed, I felt that some details about tape duplication should not...

Frequency response, comfort, psychological bias all play a role. There's different kinds of recordings when it comes to "spaciousness"...

One very simple reason; long term durability and repair. I have a pair of Sony Wf-1000XM3 ANC iems that were introduced in 2019. Now...

Closed back headphones and IEMs are how I listen to music at home when family are close by, or in shared public spaces like airplanes...

DSD noise is well outside the audible range, so that's not it, especially since you tried different DACs and amps. I would see if you...