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    More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?

    For me "streaming" means to get media on demand through the internet. I can not influence how fast streaming data arrives at my house. Where is the actual content physically located? Is it pushed through a Content Distribution Network like Akamai to local edge servers? Is it hosted (like Qobuz)...
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    What are you listening today and WHY – Only one rule, see first post

    Great idea for a thread ... Me and my wife spend many evenings in the week listening to music while reading and talking. We have no TV in the living room! I often plan our evenings and prepare music. Here is last nights music ... https://ecmreviews.com/2013/08/12/amaryllis/ The great rhythm...
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    Ground Loops and Proper Grounding by FM Acoustics

    Copper earth mat We put a pipe system above the mat to be able to water the earth in dry summers. Joining the earth mat, the ground wires and the connection to the main DB earth. The screw has been replaced with a copper one. Everything ready, joining box and pipe for watering! This...
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    Ground Loops and Proper Grounding by FM Acoustics

    I am running balanced interconnects and have a 3 phase main DB with solar inverters and battery backup. All hifi plugs are on the same phase. Only consumers that are usually off in the evening share that phase. I have a separate massive copper matt as the earth point for the hifi system. It...
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    Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?

    The thread title is my question at the moment ... We spend approximately 20 hours per week listening to music - we have no TV in the living room. I recently completely upgraded my electronics from a Burmester top line system to a Gryphon system. This has increased the fun, enjoyment and...
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    The importance of Owning Media

    I started collecting LPs 45 years ago. At some point I crossed the 3.000 mark. Then CDs, buying music I had as an LP again as a CD. All new music was bought as a CD. Grateful Dead tape trading morphed to CD-A burning. I was constantly leaching from Etree and DimeADozen At some point my...
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    Buying high end hifi in remote locations

    I will call Vivid directly. But this does not give me much of a choice. This thread was not meant to bitch about the local South African market but to find out, how are other members in locations without a diverse high end dealer network buying equipment? Giving the hobby a break is no option...
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    Buying high end hifi in remote locations

    There was only the bathroom scale. There was no other Hi-Fi equipment whatsoever. I think they were proud of this ultra-small package with all its functionality. All you need is an iPad, Qobuz or Tidal, the bathroom scale and the Giya speaker. This is the bathroom scale they were using...
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    Buying high end hifi in remote locations

    6 years ago I moved from Berlin to Capetown, South Africa. Although there is a Hifi scene in South Africa, things are very different here. Approximately 10 years ago while still living in Berlin I bought my current speakers. I went to a couple of dealers, looked at the speakers and listened to...
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    Ecki's System

    Here is an update to my system. The placement of the speakers at the long wall as shown before was always a compromise. Ron's "new room" thread inspired me to try placing the speakers at the short wall. This sounded so much better that I decided to change my setup. The big challenge was to bring...
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    Ron’s New System

    Congratulations Ron. These speakers look majestic!
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    More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?

    In every scenario that I have experienced, local files sound better than files streamed via internet. You can go the easy route like me (download music to a local digital player) or try to optimise your infrastructure to stream via internet. Plenty of threads here that explain both paths.
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    How Good a CD Transport is Required to Sound Better than Streaming?

    I just read myself through this long and interesting thread. Back to the original question: When I had a Burmester 089 CD player with an Aurender S10 connected to the digital in, the sound quality ranking was: High res local files from the Aurender CD quality local files from Aurender CD from...
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    Ecki's System

    Thank you very much for the nice words. It sounds even better than it looks!
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    Ecki's System

    I have solar panels on the roof and 24k Ah of battery capacity. This brings even class A amplifiers uninterrupted through periods of power cuts. But to make this work and also not negatively affect the sound was difficult. When the electricity supply is unreliable like under WW1 conditions, you...
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    Ecki's System

    Let me introduce myself and my system, now that everything is ready. My name is Eckhard or Ecki for my friends. I am originally from Berlin but live since 5 years in Cape Town, South Africa. I spend many evenings reading and enjoying a jazz trio playing "live" in my living room. I was a long...
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    Interconnects for Gryphon Antileon and Gryphon Pandora?

    I bought Tara Labs The Muse cables to go from the Ethos to the Pandora and from the Pandora to the Antileon monos.
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    New in the Club of The Gryphon

    Congratulations. Once you are infected with the Gryphon virus, there is no way back ...
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    Interconnects for Gryphon Antileon and Gryphon Pandora?

    Thank you for your replies. I have had the chance to hear a couple of different interconnects in my system now. Here are some reflections: Gryphon VIP reference: very smooth and nice but a bit on the dark side. Shunyata Sigma V2: much brighter and airy than the Gryphon VIP, a bit sharp here...
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    Interconnects for Gryphon Antileon and Gryphon Pandora?

    I have just bought the Gryphon components from a local dealer who closed his showroom. Currently I have Gryphon VIP interconnects on loan. I like the sound as it is but I have no comparison how f.e. a Shunyata interconnect would sound. I was hoping for someone who has heard Gryphon Pandora /...
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    Interconnects for Gryphon Antileon and Gryphon Pandora?

    I need to find a 3m XLR interconnect for the Gryphon Pandora to the Gryphon Antileon Monos and a short interconnect for the Gryphon Ethos to the Pandora. Unfortunately here in South Africa are not many cables available for testing. I need to order these without having heard them before - I hate...

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