Roon software is the perfect fishing dog. Blog over. Just kidding. Let me explain what I mean. Actually, my Portuguese Podengo (pequeño), Ford, is the perfect fishing dog, but he is the example I’m comparing to my favorite music software this fine Friday...
There are some paradigm shifts and perspective changes that go along with progression through the hifi hobby. The journey from newb to wizened wizard of audiophilia requires you to be flexible and not have the tightest grip on “what you...
Take a look at your phone. The screen is perfectly clean at this moment, right? No smudges? Yeah, right. I spend half the day putting smudges on my phone and the rest getting them off. I know I'm not the...
My coworker Dan could tell that fall was in the air last week, evidenced by the familiar crackle of static discharge returning to interactions with his testing station’s metal rack. “My favorite time of year,” he said as I heard...
We’re lucky to live and work where we do along the eastern side of Colorado’s “Front Range.” Besides the adventure opportunities, there’s also more for an audiophile to do here than in most places around the country. We’ve got a...
Can a DAC make a big difference? All the way back in the photo area of The Music Room, my coworker Jeff tells me that yes, a new DAC at my desk did make a big difference. When I say...
BMC Arcadia Speakers Most speakers you see have an arrangement like the eyes of ours with which we see them. For the most part, speaker drivers face directly toward us, and we lie in the viewing window of their gaze....
Wilson Benesch A.C.T. C60 Limited Edition Grip is a term often associated with the bigger drivers of great speakers. Usually, we’re talking about the low end, but something about the word “grip” implies a type of bass definition that is...
QLN Signature 3 Bookshelf Speakers; Walnut Pair One of the best hifi forum pejoratives I've seen is the term “cone-and-dome monkey coffin,” used to denigrate a standard mini-monitor-type speaker design.If you’re presently looking at a set of these, as I...
