Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])
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I’ve spoken to Dani a few times and he’s not at all what you’d expect.
I suppose I had better get some black lipstick and chains.
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I've heard he's a prat TBH, not well regarded in the metal scene!
How does it compare?Amazon Echo Studio to replace my Sonos Play 1s
Second one incoming
Just got the one at the moment but I would say (and I'm no audiophile) just as loud if not louder, certainly more bass.
General sound quality and "filling the room" I'd say they were in a par
Can't wait to get the second one!
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After many, many, many arguments with the silicone gun and different tools.
A bit of research suggested these. Well, it’s one of the most effective tools I’ve ever bought!
A bit of research suggested these. Well, it’s one of the most effective tools I’ve ever bought!
Yep that's the one I've used (/prefer to others I've tried!) , good bit of kit.After many, many, many arguments with the silicone gun and different tools.
A bit of research suggested these. Well, it’s one of the most effective tools I’ve ever bought!
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I ended up getting Tidal for about 2 years purely on 3 month trials for $1 at a time
my issue with tidal is it doesn't have an equalizer to make it sound better in the car ... but at home it's great and used it for many years.
spotify on other hand does ( and recently learned you can play your own local files in the car )
that youtube premium trial for higher/256kb music with videos just seems to be moving that on par with youtube Music, but - not everything has a video. ?
Some bike storage. Although the saddle bag doesn't open as wide as i'd have liked.
I don't think a bike will fit inside that storage bag.
Surely the whole point of Tidal is uncompressed music that should be the best quality possible. By it's very nature an equaliser is going to affect that quality. It may sound "better" to you, but that's your personal preference rather than it actually being better.
This is very interesting. I've just broached switching our family spotify with the wife. Given it's us who pays and shares with all the kids, i look forward to the complaints from the leachers!
Have signed up for the trial, but i quite like podcasts and it's nice to have a single app.
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Bear in mind regardless of any EQing whether in software or on hardware, the Tidal copy of any given song is almost certainly going to sound better regardless because the original master or Tidal remaster is just higher quality in the first place. There are numerous examples of this, like want you back by Jackson 5, on Spotify the exact same release sounds compressed or lower quality than the Tidal version which points to the Tidal source master being of a higher grade rather than the fact that it's being streamed lossless - And when not streaming on the desktop app you aren't actually streaming lossless as Android and iOS do internal resampling of the lossless stream, so you aren't actually hearing lossless audio on these ecosystems. Android is the only exception where if you plug in a USB DAC then you can tell Tidal to connect directly to the DAC and then the lossless file is sent direct for bit-perfect transmission like it does on Windows when connected to a DAC/Amp and enable Exclusive mode.
So yeah whilst the idea is to have the purest output which is 1:1 to the original master, this is only possible under specific conditions. All other times it will be resampled by the device OS. It's not a huge deal though as humans won't be able to hear the difference between the resampled version and the 1:1 lossless version on Tidal - Just the quality of the source master is what matters most.
I faved a few podcasts on spotify to listen in the car but ended up mostly listening to youtube as my car stereo runs Android and I have YT premium so the little floating window can be used to "listen" in the BG over the satnav lol. The rest of the features or spotify are much of a muchness, the AI DJ X thing was nice, but not something I will sorely miss as Tidal's recommendation system seems good too though not its own DJ so to speak. So far everything on Spotify is also on Tidal but in FLAC, in 24 hours I have streamed over 10GB of Tidal music lol.
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be wary of these interconnects on Amazon/eBay, they are cheap and feel good quality but the channel separation is muffed up so whoever wired them up didn't seem to do a decent job. Only a few quid but even still...
When Maplins was around I used to make my own. You used to even be able to get pure (as pure as they claimed) silver core cables, then put on some WBT plugs. It does require some soldering but what you end up with would cost like £250 by some companies for less tha £30 homemade. Back then WBT plugs were like £20 for a pair, just checked and they are now £80.
Does it make any difference? lol as much as my biased mind wanted it to be.
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I don't think it makes a difference to sound unless the core is high resistance over 1ohm and you can hear the difference as we saw years back when Philips released the Fidelio X1 which had a high resistance cable which restricted the capability of the headphone, they then fixed it with the X2 which had 0.4~ ohms resistance vs the >1 of the X1 cable.
The main thing is construction quality. I guess you buy cheap and this is the lottery you play!
The main thing is construction quality. I guess you buy cheap and this is the lottery you play!
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