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RIP John Saxon. Loved Don Winslow's Tweet:

Very Happy Birthday!!

Roon requires a "core" server, be it a standalone machine or the core SW on another machine; and yes, always on. One of the things I love about Roon is the ability to have many different endpoints. I have had up to 7 endpoints active in my home, several streamers and a couple network-enabled table speakers (Naim and Elac). Very easy to use and direct output to any of the endpoints, and can access local library as well as Tidal and Qobuz services through the same interface. It also has some metadata capabilities that I like as well, info on artists, recommendations in the genre, and the like. Roon "remotes" can be on mobile devices or desktop devices as well..... If ALL you want to do is use a streaming service, and to one or a limited number of devices that need to be network-ready, Roon may be overkill.

Steve if you could and would make those panels, that'd be porn enough for me. But in the meantime.....

This, very much this....RIP......

That's OK, you can still mourn.....😉

The guitarist Gary Moore died in 2011.....

RIP to two greats......America has indeed lost a lot.......

Just saw this on FB

RIP Matsuo-san. A maroon 240Z (my dad & stepmom's) was the first car I drove when practicing for my drivers license.....

x2, in and done as well. I give to the Mass. SPCA as well.....these places do wonderful work.

I think you could do pretty much all of Altered Images music.....mmmmmm, 80's Claire Grogan EDIT: holy crap, it led me to this....a tiny bit of awesome.....mmmmmm, 60's Carolyn Jones......

RIP Grant....way too young.....

Happy Birthday!

RIP Ennio and Charlie. Another two long-time greats gone..... 😩

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

I had a friend in High School who loved them, as well as several of the other Ralph Records artists.....(The Residents of course) EDIT: just found the song he loved to play the most for me

Happy Birthday!!

^^ I thought so too, I used to own those. Apparently with mods they sounded pretty good....they were like $50 a pair IIRC.

Love the jacket-over-shoulder, vested look Steve! I had a pair of pants in the 70's that was in essence a patchwork of....patches of pants of REALLY ugly design. Thank goodness there are no pictures, I remember hating them even as a young kid.... I recall reds, stripes, plaids, etc. STILL working out the issues from wearing those! 😃

I believe more in Power Conditioning than Power Cords. Almost any good shielded design works fine after a conditioner in my house. That said, another Crump design (TG Audio SLVR) seems to make a positive difference to my ears no matter where it's used..... I didn't want to believe, but just when I thought I was out they dragged me right friggin' in 😂

Oh, wow.....RIP Carl.....!

I like it a lot. For the size and (relatively low) price, it performs quite admirably. My current reference is a custom all-in-one unit using the Purifi amp modules (this is a new company started by the gent who created the Hypex and NCore designs). The manufacturer of this custom unit - Mivera Audio - puts his own input buffers in front of the Purifi modules, and then adds a DAC and a lightning dock. It uses an iPhone as a streamer/Roon endpoint, and has some of the best sound I've heard; the transparency is eerie at times. The Brooklyn amp gets me a pretty high % of that sound, actually excavating deeper in the bass. Compared to the Mivera, the transparency is a bit less, resulting in a slightly larger/bit more diffuse sound - the Mivera is just SO precise in image and instrument placement. But this is a pretty close second place to that. I also need to do some comparisons to a heavily-modded EVS dual-mono ICE-Edge amp, which is also right up there based on memory. Tonally, no complaints, it seems very well-balanced. The deep bass is not overdone, so it doesn't take over. And the highs seem very extended and smooth without any glare (caveat: my age is getting up there, and my hearing above ~16kHz has been degrading over time). So overall a very nice amp, really love the small form factor and how much is there for the size and price.