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Depends how you look at it. In my case, the car wouldn't have been recovered without the device. That additional damage (of having to replace the entire vehicle) would be spread across policyholders who would all need to pay higher premiums. Multiply that out across all cars and all incidents...

I have a bit of recent first-hand experience. I've had the cheapest Beame (Matrix) in several vehicles over several years. My car was stolen last year, and recovered less than two hours later after calling it in. The perps caused well over R200k's worth of damage to the interior of the car to...

I missed this completely. This is such sad news. Mike was a great human being, and I enjoyed every single interaction we had over the years. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

I can second this - especially the Pro 2. I had the original Pros until they were economically redistributed along with my car. The Pro 2 are better. A lot better. They sound amazing with music. Detail, emotion, bass - they are just plain fun to listen and compare very favourably to my desktop...

.... Thank you for this. Just checking if ASC was meant to be ASR? I skim-read the original article because it was so awfully written. And largely glanced at the rest of the conversation, and have nothing useful to add. But my favourite bit was in the ASR post. Where they asked whether...

I don't think the situation changed much at all in your analysis. These are clearly all value-for-money speakers. The SA pricing is actually remarkable. 4 out of 8 are substantially cheaper than the US prices. The difference on the other 4 is (except for the Q) less than 20%. If the local...

If you want something, you stay in touch. You send contact details, and ask for banking details. Or at least ask if the item can be held for X number of days. Saying "I'll take it" with no further follow-up creates no obligation on the seller, I'm sorry. I'm sure there are many ways to...

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We’ve been using a 55” LG (55UH603V) since 2017, and we’ve been really happy with it. So much so that it’s turned me off Samsung - because I find their colours unnatural to my eyes. We are thinking of going a bit bigger, 65” is perfect for our room. But the choices are insane. I don’t want to...

Quick update, and thank you for all the responses. I looked at the Fiio R7, but the form factor doesn’t work for me, and I don’t need the headphone section. And even if they could surely sound amazing, I didn’t feel like fiddling with Pi’s and endlessly configurable bits. I did find an...

Getting my notebook ready to see responses to this. I find TV shopping bewildering, and even if someone could point to some simple online resources that would help. FWIW... and this might be an unfair comparison because I can't describe the actual technical differences, but I have a 48"...

I know the best answer to the upcoming question is "listen and compare", but I'm hoping some members have some experience with more than one of these. I am looking to get a single streamer & DAC for my main system. I don't want to split streamer and DAC at this stage - this is a secondary...

Is there any reliable resource that explains all the different Node variants? Some shops (and this thread started in 2021) refer to "Gen 3", the term "N130" doesn't appear on Bluesound's own website. What version is this being advertised here?

I tried different tubes in my Predator once, by myself, and it just didn't work out well for me. They weren't cheap, and the difference just wasn't "right". I eventually sold the tubes. And it wasn't down to the nature of the tubes. It's hard to describe, but it sounded like something was off...

Not looking to hyper-optimize, just want to undigital the digital playback. It might be impossible, but just checking if there are general guidelines.

Actually… let me ask a more specific question. What is a good curve to keep the sound alive and dynamic, but remove some brightness without losing detail? In short, how do I get closer to vinyl?

It works! It's just messing with my head that that the little white line makes such wavy shapes... and once it’s found a shape it’s hard to move it back! Is the idea to play around until you find something that sounds nice? I'm finding that lifting the far left and the far right (a bit)...

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but do you have to use the built-in DAC (Pro) to use EQ? Or does it alter the signal going out to the external DAC?

This is the way. If you don't need HT, just get a good stereo pre. If you want to retain HT, get a pre with HT bypass. Your front speakers are basically shared between the pre's inputs (regular inputs) and HT duty (from the AVR, via HT bypass) You are going to compromise the sound if you run...

HIFIMAN EF400 DAC/Headphone Amplifier - Positive Feedback Reviewer tested the EF400 with both Arya and HD600. Found it to be quite sensitive to choice of headphone (or possibly more revealing of the headphones' characteristics?). Might be worth playing with some of the gain settings -...