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Gotcha. Maybe I was just lucky but with my RPi (first a 3 then a 4) I just installed Volumio and expected it to work over USB with my Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital... and it did. This is extra useful because the Pro-Ject is also powered over that same USB so I only need one mains adapter instead of 2.

I was about to ask the same: USB is USB, and it doesn't matter what the OS is, as long as the audio is what you need.

Not as bad as 12 W output! Is that a joke?

Yes, especially with ported speakers, but that's caused by warps and ripples in the vinyl not being filtered out by the arm-cartridge mass-compliance, not rumble, which strictly speaking is bearing noise and expected to be low in any decent TT.

Would any competent turnable have any rumble serious enough to require filtering out in any case?

How much music is released in multi-channel? I thought this site was all about good SQ for music. Anyway, off to bed!

I can't say that I notice that as such a problem, but if it is, surely the answer is in improving the environment for what is a 2-channel system, not adding a third pseudo channel which can only be a crude average of the other 2, requires a third amp channel, etc.? Back in the 70s Ambisonics was...

Yes, of course, I know that's the justification, but we don't need that for the central vocals or instruments in music, do we? In fact, I'd argue it's needed even less with video because we have that visual clue, powerful enough to skew our aural perception anyway (ventriloquism wouldn't work...

This is OT, but I've never understood why "home cinema" needs 3, when it's accepted and established that stereo music is fine with 2. And, unless you have an acoustically transparent screen, where do you put a centre floorstander anyway? I've used a stereo pair with a TV for as long as I can...

OK, but that is *not* how just about everyone buys them. Centre speakers are, of course, a different matter.

816. The 806 is a 2-way with single bass/mid.

That makes sense, but why would Amir give the price for one? Does anyone ever buy main stereo speakers for home use other than in pairs?

I see that this is available for £600/pair in black at Richer Sounds here in the UK. Can it really be only $500/pair in the USA? I don't normally like black speakers but this looks really good (also available in "dark" or "light" wood but I assume those are vinyl wraps not wood veneer)...

Do those with supernatural perception also have supernatural incomes? If not, who's keeping the whole thing going?

I agree, but what is "educated enough"? We can't expect everyone to know electronics or basic physics, but critical thinking ought to be more common than it is.

I like that idea in principle, but how do we decide what that simulated load should be? A worst case of available speakers, an average, or what?

This comes down to semantics, doesn't it? I feel that "belief" is by definition subjective, whereas "knowledge" is objective.

"subjective belief in magic."? Can there be any other kind?

Indeed. Which is worse: a fantasist who genuinely believes in nonsense, or a liar who knows it's nonsense but claims to believe it anyway. Regardless, we should expect them to prove their claims in double-blind subjective tests.

Is that for >1 user? I'm typing this on a 2012 MacBook Pro bought as a refurb in 2013.