This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. I completed all of the listening position and speaker placement tuning in part 3. Later in his book, Paul touches on room treatments, cables,…
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Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 3)
This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. In this part, I’ll describe how I set up the grid, performed basic system checks, and got busy with basic tuning. If you’re…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 2)
This is a continuation of my review and notes as I work through Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound. Here’s a link to the start of this series. Before I get into setting up the grid and describing what I’m learning from the listening tests, I thought you might like to…
Unlocking Great Sound with Paul (part 1)
I picked up Paul McGowan’s book, Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo – Unlock the Secrets to Great Sound, plus the companion discs to see what more I could learn about room setup. For most audiophiles, the listening room is the largest and most expensive component in their playback systems, often by an order of magnitude. Even small…
Raspberry Pi 3 for Roon Bridge
Roon is an amazing piece of software for organizing your local digital music collection and seamlessly expanding your library via streaming selections from TIDAL. The v1.3 update of Roon has been covered well on many sites so I won’t dig into it here, but DSP and convolution plus third party integrations shift Roon into the…
HOWTO: Streaming TIDAL via JRiver Media Center
I’m so excited! I just have to share…even though chances are slim that you will have any need for a setup like this. Before I get started, let me first explain my situation and why I’m excited. I have large loudspeakers in a small room, so to get the bass under control, my system really needed…
Purifying USB
Audiophiles love system tweaks. They are an essential part of the hobby. Get a playback system sounding just the way you like and pretty soon there’s nothing left to do but listen to music. Granted, that’s what the system is for, so there’s nothing wrong with that! But you know what’s even more fun than listening…