Recent content by norcalscott

I believe the point is that they compare favorably to these more expensive speakers, no?

I saw on the Tidal subreddit today that Tidal themselves posted that they have a new beta for iOS and Android (not sure about Windows/Mac) that changed the home screen - you have to sign up for the beta in settings and also select "try new Home Screen" - this is MUCH improved over the former...

I never tried HDMI output with this setup when I had it, but a RasPi running Volumio may function just the way you need. The downside is that you need to pay the Volumio subscription to get Tidal Connect (as far as I am aware) and that may not be worth it to you. (I used to pay for it but...

Thanks for this - I may re-image my RPi4 that was being used for Volumio to do this instead. I have also been running Plex for many years and have the lifetime pass. Plexamp on both my Android phone and my iPad is fantastic.

I'd never heard about those players - it was a good read. Funniest part about it was that it worked well in luxury cars with good suspension, not so well in the lower end models of cars.

I think it was more about portability than anything else. I put an aftermarket radio with cassette player in my first car and had two geeky looking briefcases full of cassettes - probably 50 in total with me and played the hell out of those. Many of my cassettes were from Columbia Record (and...

I have been a subscriber to Tidal for a long time, and generally listen to it either through PlexAmp (with my self-hosted Plex server connected to Tidal, which works really well), or through USB Audio Player Pro, which seems to be more stable than the Tidal Android app. I have to say though...

Lot of glad handing and overbaked optimism in the comments for this posting. I suspect that not much will change right away, but eventually a lot will change, and based on my experiences with acquisitions like this, probably not for the good.

People really do back some weird stuff on Kickstarter and Indiegogo…

Thank you - it is pretty nice acoustically, although I have had to add some deadening items to prevent echos and some minor room correction. The Lintons like more toe-in than other speakers I’ve had but the overall tonality, especially with female voices is excellent and the soundstage even in...

They also look and sound pretty good, even in a weird room like this one. Not to mention a fairly high wife acceptance factor...

I use Tidal, rather than Qobuz with UAPP but when you plug the DAC into the phone, you should get a prompt to give access to UAPP and when you do that the internal Android audio system should be bypassed and you will get the full resolution of the playback - you should be able to see this in the...

I'll agree about reliability, but in this use case, at this price, I suspect these caps will last through the usable life expectancy (sadly, we live in a disposable world). I suspect that in order to meet the price point, SMSL had to cut costs in ways that would not impact performance. As an...

Lelon are largely considered mid-range, and should be sufficient at this price level. Are you implying that this DAC would perform better if they had used "top-tier" caps?

Looks like it requires registration to try it, and I am hesitant (or maybe too lazy) to provide them with my email address just to try it out. Also looks to be more of an on-line type player than a locally installed player like it used to be? I think I'll stick with Foobar - some time ago I...