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    CD Transport vs Music Server

    I use an EtherRegen between storage/streaming and server, and connect the server to DAC with a 40 foot optical cable.
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    I doubt it...
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    Unfortunately, how thread topics often go is more of the same (irrelevant) posts of system videos and why horns are the only speakers that matter. Almost every topic (it sometime seems)...
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    Built for the love of music...

    Really nice! I suspect that with the decoupling your preferred speaker position will be measurably different from where it was before.
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    I suspect many of us have had experience with systems using horn speakers similar to mine. Over the past 15 or so years I have heard about 35-40 systems like this; none have had what I would call outstanding sound. A handful have been very good with some outstanding sonic characteristics...
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    I pretty much refuse to watch videos (reading is so much faster and more informative). Does he relate the true story? That it was due to the Sony U-matic VCR's frame rate (this bit of history is well-documented)?
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    electric lawnmowers? ;)
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    Yet I think most would agree that except for the increasing cost of the highest priced equipment, there has never been a wider variety of high quality audio components available. The acrimonious part of the discussion centers around whether the highest priced pieces are worth the money, whether...
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    I'm afraid that ship has sailed...
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    Which is consistent with what I posted. You forget that the price for the speakers was in Canadian dollars, so you need to look at both the exchange rate and the slightly different inflation rate for Canada. Even if you look only at the US price in 1995 and compare it to today it's not close...
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    If tape is so good why does it record so poorly?

    I thought this was what I meant.
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    If tape is so good why does it record so poorly?

    This may be similar to some preferring the sound of an LP cut from a hi-rez digital master to playing the hi-rez digital master itself.
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    Ah, sorry. $5k Canadian in 1995 would be worth…$6.6k US today. Inflation from the ‘90’s through to today is far less than you think. Rant rant rant from all sides, and I am guilty of some as well. I joined to learn more about R2R resources, but since knowledgable members in that area also...
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    I'm not sure how you arrive at "12-15k" today. Based on the inflation rate, $5k Canadian in 2005 would be worth about...$5.5k US today.
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    I think you only need to look at the next few posts after yours that I quote, to see my point even more clearly :confused:
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