Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Sorry to hear about your library man, that sucks. 320kbs MP3 will be fine but if you have the option, FLAC or ALAC will be best 😀

Thanks!
On the one hand it sucks, 25 odd years of music just gone.
But on the other it’s a chance to start afresh with what I’ve learnt and know I like/love musically.
And also means I can clean up the library, dispense with the excess/dross and hone in on the music I really want to listen to.

I know that feeling

Sorry dude

where to store flacs in the cloud where i can stream both from my phone and to a chromecast audio at home

Any recommendations for good speakers?

Got old crappy Bose speakers atm, looking for something within £130-150 range, preferably quite retro...

Royd Minstrels!

following up from last post, there really is no good options for music on the go for people with their own libraries. maybe im a niche market.

• google drive converts FLAC to mp3 and doesnt support podcasts in the UK
  
• apple music doesnt support chromecast devices
  
• spotify doesnt support personal libraries
  
• roon doesnt support cloud/out of home listening
  
  

how is this so hard?!

I pay for Vox/Loop, which I think is about as much as Spotify premium. Lets me store unlimited lossless and lossy audio for streaming at home and on phone. Not sure about chromecast solution as I don’t have one. I stream directly to a airport express from my phone or play through the computer connected to DAC.

I have a hard drive with it all on as a backup in case it goes tits up one day.

I think you really are a niche market - people with their own libraries tend to use a dedicated DAP with MicroSD cards rather than uploading everything to the cloud.

Maybe I'm niche, I just upload most of my library onto my phone and listen to it.

This. Just get a FiiO whatever and be done with it.

Plex seems the obvious:

Plays back original or transcoded depending what you choose in settings;
Supports podcasts and chromecasts;
Allows multiple libraries;
Has an app on pretty much every device out there which works locally or remotely (and allows syncing for offline play as well).

FLACs aren't stored in the cloud but they can be accessed from anywhere so I don't think it makes much difference unless you have poor internet at home. If you really want a cloud solution you can set up Plex on AWS or Digital Ocean or something but it would probably work out pricier than a local solution.

I think I read plex is moving away from libraries to stream services... So unless you have it, I wouldn't get comfortable.

Setting up Plex for my digital "library" is on my to do list. (Along with upgrading NAS to SSD)
Has been for some time.
Not sure if I'll get around to it but it does seem like a good thing.

I'd be very surprised if that was the case. They're streamlining the software and adding new streaming features (integrating Tidal for instance) but local libraries still seems very core to the offering and the new software that they're releasing. Moving away from local libraries would probably kill Plex as a product.

They got some stick recently for discontinuing their home theatre software on PC (their thinking being that you were most likely to have a mini device like Firestick, Roku, Raspberry Pi, Xbox, etc plugged into the TV rather than a PC) but they reversed that decision after lots of complaints.

I tried this but i forget to take it with me

Get my phones from work so limited to 64gb

🥺

I sense this issue is not with available hardware and software 🤔😉

All i want is Apple music to support chromecast on iOS, basically.

Doesn't seem like too much to ask for to be fair. But it ain't gonna happen!

I’ve just got a new DJ mixer - Allen & Heath Xone32 - on which the master out is TRS jack, rather than phono, as my last mixer was.

There is a phono record-out, but using that alone to my amp means the LED master-out levels do not illuminate, which I use to make sure the two channels are equal. I also want the record-out to run into my PC.

Anyway, is this a simple case of buying a TRS to phono lead and running into my amp? If so, any reccos out of the many on Amazon?

You should be ok with a mono unbalanced trs to phono, it's possible that the trs output will be louder than the phono output, depending on what sort of protocol they're using. I like van Damme cables with Neutrix connectors just because I've not had any fail and I've never heard any odd limitation of the signal using these. I do have tons of other types some of which have failed (Chinese amazon type I'm looking at you). They might seem expensive, it depends on the length (ooh err).

I have accidentally bought another pair of tannoys - 12" HPD Cheviots this time. I chucked a pretty low offer at an ebay seller and won them. I now need to sneak them inot the house.

The cab is in better nick than the photos showed, but they have been refoamed and it isn't that pretty...

Almost at the end of 2 week Roon trial and its so great, but im not sure its worth the money for something i only get to use a handful of times a week, ontop of apple music

I was reading on the Roon forum that they've put the lifetime membership price up. For me it's been worth the price as I use it more than a couple of times a week and have Tidal instead of apple music, the integration with Tidal is very good. I've been using it for a couple of years now, they keep on improving it, I'm saving for a fanless intel nuc to run the roon os as I think that's the right direction for the way I use it.