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    Snake Oil Department, Top This

    Premium solder, could be branded as “Solder of Fortune”.
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    The best way to bring audio enthusiasts from the dark side and see the light?

    That's why I recommend people to read Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even if you know about all kinds of cognitive biases, you can't help it. Your brain is,, as a feature, lazy. "This stove top is really hot, should I remove my hand, or maybe see what happens?". You act quick in a...
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    Vintage Audio Advertising

    A reverse image search says the woman on the sofa is Yvette Vickers - Playmate of the month July 1959, and the photo also from that Playboy issue.
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    Denon Replaces AKM AK4458 DAC IC in X4700H and X6700H

    How are the delivery around the world? I ordered a 3700H last year before a $200 price bump, but the "anticipated in stock" date in Norway is now February 18th. I hope those container ships are sailing.
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    Confused about DACs ranking compared to price tags (and diverse questions)

    And to add to that: Follow-up, service and guarantees. One good example is RME, which not only make solid products, but keep upgrading the firmware and support them many years after release (which is what you want from a professional product).
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    RME ADI-2 FS Version 2 DAC and Headphone Amp Review

    Not the AKM to AKM chip change, but the change to ESS chip, which they did in 2021. Fire was in 2020.
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    Extreme Snake Oil

    Hold my beer https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/sotm-launches-smb-q370-motherboard-r1071/
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    Tom's hardware tells the truth

    Why stop with an SSD? Now you can get an audiophile motherboard!
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    MacBook Pro won’t output 24/192

    Have you set "Exclusive mode" on the device setup in Roon? If so, you should never have to use the MIDI/Ljudenehter settings.
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    RME ADI-2 FS Version 2 DAC and Headphone Amp Review

    Originally around Wednesday (yesterday), so any day now. EDIT: See next post. Source, Mr. Carstens: https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?pid=179259#p179259 [My first post here, been lurking for "years"]
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