audio streaming

I noticed that every decade of music (on streaming services) down you go, the less care there is. The less popular genres is basically a even less caring multiplier with decades. In this thread, I wanted to focus on 1970s & below country.The lack of care ranges and varies. The issues are wrong...

I really could do with some help here. I have the NAD C700 for over a year and it was running fine it seems until I renewed my broadband contract with Vodafone (in Ireland) late last year. It's high-speed broadband and the NAD is connected by ethernet cable. In the last four months the...

Just bought a Wiim Mini to use with external DAC mainly to play hi res Amazon Prime or Amazon Music Unlimited on the main hifi. I haven't registered for music unlimited yet - wanted to try the basic system hardware out first. I have a four Alexa system that works fine for smarthome and music...

Hello all, I was about to get rid of my old Apple TV 3'rd generation, A1469 model, due to the fact that it has no HBO Max, just Prime Video and Netflix and not sure for how long, given that streaming platforms will probably get updated in few years again, while this Apple TV model is already...

Happy New Year everyone. I have the opportunity to review the new Fosi Audio T10 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 5.0 Amplifier 2 Channel Home Amplifier. Just as a reference, here is my background. Electro-mechanical engineer out of Temple University, DIY hifi geek, and former engineer at the Allen Organ...

I am proud to announce the release of Rev 3.0 of my award winning PecanPi® product line. The PecanPi Streamer is a networked music player with build-in DAC and headphone amplifier. The PecanPi DAC is high-performance DAC for the RaspberryPi and Tinker Board, this is for DIYer...

I can't do subscription services and their changing copyrights. I have a couple of decades worth of my old rips + my bandcamp purchases (the best music service aroud for someone like me) + downloads that come with physical media. And I'm not talking about music services that let you upload your...

While I was listening to music on tidal I noticed this one track sounded louder than usually. The track was "every rose has its thorn" by poison. I directly downloaded the songs from Qobuz and Tidal to compare. I will be using the DR Tool with Foobar2000. Yes I do own this specific song. DRM...

Hi there, After some research I'm contemplating purchasing a Bluesound Node 2i (or perhaps the Vault 2i). For a while I was contemplating a Sonos Port as I have a Sonos Five in the bedroom and a Sonos One in the kitchen and it integrates nicely with Deezer. But I want the best option to feed...

Disclaimer: I'm a newbie and not an expert in electronics at all, I just read a lot here and I'm a curious guy... so please, don't blast me if I write silly things :) The game is to imagine an ideal-yet-minimal configuration (in electronics terms) for streaming digital stereo. On the basis of...

A 16 x 20 room, carpeted with light drapes. A pair of Revel 228be speakers driven by a McIntosh MC312 ss amp. Source 1: Tidal into Sonos Port via wireless connection, digital out to Anthem STR pre amp, ARC modified, balanced outs to amp Source 2: Tidal into Matrix Element X via wireless...

This is an article I wrote for Widescreen Review in 2015 to show the progress we had made since the inception of that magazine in audio/video. It also covers part of my career that related to this evolution. Hope you don't hold that against it :). ---- History of Audio and Video Streaming and...