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Heh. Whoops. Yeah Van Damme...
I used to be able to order it via work so got a good discount (ie for free) when I was building patch bays/mic leads/multicore etc, etc for the company.
The material they make the cable jacket out of almost made it a pleasure to recoil after it came back from hire.
Still charged them for the time though.
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Would anyone be interested in some beaten up Monitor Audi Silver S2s?
I've had them for years and they need some restoration work - there's damage on the woofers and the tweeters, plus a fair bit of cosmetic water damage.
However, they still sound great!
Happy to give them to a good home in exchange for a couple of nice beers.
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No date or price, but there's going to be a lossless Spotify tier this year.
https://www.whathifi.com/news/spotify-hi-fi-tier-finally-launching-to-offer-cd-quality-streaming
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thank finally ! hopefully comes in just in time for my 6 months of tidal hifi to run out...
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Hmmm, interesting and tempting. I switched to Tidal to get the hifi streaming but also
appreciate the fact they pay artists nearly triple what Spotify offer. I don't think it's quite as good as Spotify in terms of algorithms, and none of my stuff can use MQA, but I still think it would be good if more people jettisoned Spotify in an effort to encourage them to improve their offer to artists.
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Yeah no worries, I can stick them under the bed until then!
Send me a PM 👍
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That may be so, but I've not read anything to suggest Tidal isn't better for artists than Spotify.
I'm all ears though. I have no emotional attachment to either, and if Spotify is comparable in renumeration, for me it would be slightly better from a user experience point of view, once it goes to hifi streaming.
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I take the view that all streaming is basically a bad deal for the people I like to listen to, but I buy the things I want to own on Bandcamp/Norman/wherever and round out my collection with streaming - of course, I regularly land up streaming things I own for convenience...
I don't see any of them clamouring for their fans to move streaming platforms because that would make any meaningful difference to the situation.
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Tidal could be better for the artists but I doubt there's much in it. The contracts are negotiated by the same teams at the rights holders and often the legal people at the streaming services float around between them, it's unlikely that they're going to have negotiated completely new metrics for payment.
The whole pay per stream things gets mentioned a lot as it's easy for most people to understand and then it's perpetuated because some rights holders display the earnings on the artist royalty statement on a per stream basis, which the artists then share online so everyone thinks that the simple pay-per-stream is how it's calculated.
I have no affiliation to Spotify, though do have some insight into the deals they struck when launching. They actually give away a higher % of their revenues than other services, they just have a lot of streams per month so it makes the value look lower.
Obviously go for whichever streaming service you like the most but it would be very difficult for Spotify to do anything to change that chart without negatively impacting the service they offer (be that having to charge more, get rid of the ad-funded users if they still have them, sack off some people that work there etc...).
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Darko interesting on Spotify hifi and more widely here - particularly that he thinks it won't cost any extra, I kind of doubt that but I can see how he gets there. Hadn't even thought about the fact there's no spotify in roon (that also doesn't matter too much to me) and that there may well be no MQA but I won't miss that either.
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Hi all, I was wondering whether anyone had any recommendations for an / some entry level Bluetooth speaker(s) that are mains powered.
I recently bought a Google Nest Audio, which is about right for the size of my room, but I’m not a fan. Are there any similar small mains powered speakers that I could connect to an iPad / phone by Bluetooth, for under £100? I’ve looked at some of the active speakers, but they seem slightly overkill for the size of the room...
Thanks in advance!
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Single or pair?
Over your limit, but I like my boombox style https://ca.harmankardon.com/HK+GO+PLAY.html?dwvar_HK%20GO%20PLAY_color=Black-USA-Current
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I think the portability factor makes most people want just a single unit to take with them, though mine mostly lives in my shop in th basement.
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I’ve bought 2 of the CCA refurb jobs that are on eBay for around £50 now, even at double their original price I still think they’re a bargain, I would probably recommend that if only to remove the need for the HDMI audio extractor.
There’s loads written about audio quality of streaming sources and what I think doesn’t come across is the differences they’re trying to describe are tiny, and only apparent with direct a-b testing. I don’t believe there are no differences but compared to something like swapping speakers they are entirely negligible. I went as far as buying the Allo USBridge Sig with the posh linear power supply and even with very revealing components down stream it’s really not noticeably better than anything else.
For me the fear of missing out comes from reviewers trying to verbalise a sensory experience. I have to do this in my job selling coffee and while you can explain a difference in great detail, you have to use a microscope to do so and you can sometimes forget to emphasise the tiny scale of that difference in use.