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Over the last month, I’ve been trying to expand my knowledge of electronic music using your blog posts on the topic and your Insta feed as my way in. There’s no particular purpose to my email except to say that you’re an absolute mind reader. I’m a longtime reader of your blog and love the films you, Olaf and Jana make. Me: Yes, indeed, there are a few articles out there about this very issue: Keeping content ready for streaming 24/7 requires huge amounts of electrical energy. I’d like to add that streaming (same goes for all cloud computing actually) is not environmentally friendly at all. I was watching your video on Electronica for Audiophiles, where you, at the end, mention that CD listening gives you a private listening session.

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Oh and now they have a Berlin series which might be appropriate for you being local 😉Ĭheers, thanks for your work and your videos and Happy New Year from a french man in Nevada. Another favorite is the Ethni-City series. Their Sol System collection is really good. The other three volumes are great too but maybe in a more traditional ambient sense.Īlso, and I just checked the website is down: but they have a page on Mixcloud: You might need to pause listening (I know I do sometimes). You may know it already but just in case, I wanted to bring it to your attention. It’s in the vein of Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 (heck, Aphex is included in it). 🙂įollowing your recent video in the title, I could not help but reach out to you to bring this compilation to your attention: Thanks for your work, any day with a Darko post is a good one! Furthermore, your production value? God-tier. I’m just getting into the hobby, and your taste in music and equipment constantly expands my ideas of what is possible in the world of audio. One sees, at least in the 200 – 300 Euro range, nothing is available. I say this after waiting weeks on their waiting list. It is unfortunate that products like the Schitt Modi 3+ DAC are essentially unavailable in Europe.

Given that you turned me on to the product, I thought you may want to let you readers know of the development.

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I write today to inform you that the HiBy R2 now has the firmware update available that allows users to stream Qobuz directly to the R2 (previously only Tidal users could stream directly). I’m sure you can find the URL.ĭon’t know why but thought you might be interested. Low and behold, whilst using Balena Etcher to flash a few cards, to pass the time I followed the link to their other open-source projects and came across Balena Sound. Naturally, I’ve looked at Roon but couldn’t work out if it did this so kept looking. An ex Spotify subscriber I currently use Tidal via Volumio. On my bespoke ‘to include’ list is to play my music in different rooms, ideally synchronously. I’m on a journey to build a modest streaming system over the coming years or so. It’s gonna be glorious.Keith from Malta, love the channel mate. I’ll take the sound card’s digital output and send it to a truly high-end Anthem AVR for digital-to-analog conversion.

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I’ll control it with a Bluetooth keyboard and send the image to a 4K OLED TV.

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I’m gonna build a small form factor PC for the living room, and it’ll cost less than the buggy and crippled Bluesound Node 2i. (With a higher-end motherboard or separate internal sound card.) HDMI output for metadata, lyrics, streaming quality indicators, and album art in 4K on the big screen? Check. That’s the one place you can get everything you want and, with the right sound card, it’s astonishing. The one player that works is the one that also works in the office: the PC. Even worse, the HEOS Link won’t let you play anything through its app from your My Music library, unless you stumble across it with the searched or random music functions. Same goes for the Denon HEOS Link, also highly rated for sound. The top-rated media box for hi-res sound, the Bluesound Node 2i, is bedeviled by 1-star reviews for its app and, even if the app was great, you’d need to use its crippled Amazon Music feature instead of the Amazon app to get the good sound. Amazon’s own boxes only go to “HD” with Amazon Music HD, same as Sonos, according to Amazon’s FAQ-regardless of their internal specs. Sonos is a no-go, as it tops out at 16-bit/44KHz.

The one good player for 24-bit 192KHz funĪfter an exhaustive search during which Amazon was zero help (for you masochists, open a chat with Amazon Music HD support and ask them any simple question…I dare you), I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no player optimized for the 24-bit/192KHz experience in the living room (well, one player…keep reading).Īll current players have dealbreakers.

Sonos targets by adding 24bit qobuz