Volumio Primo music player/streamer Review
February 2, 2021 Comments Off on Volumio Primo music player/streamer Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/volumio-primo-music-playerstreamer
Volumio seems to rely on the library’s file structure for organization, but it provides no library-management tools, and the documentation says nothing about how it expects a library to be configured. I have set up most of the directories and files in my library by date added and not by artist, work, etc. Other programs, like JRiver and Roon, are okay with this: They use flexible, sophisticated metadata tagging. Volumio’s system, however it works, didn’t play as well with my library. Search often returned incongruous results, and the standard views, such as Albums, Genres, Artists, Playlists, and Favorites, failed to display cover art for a substantial part of my collection. (Why didn’t it discover all the cover art in my library?) Maybe this wouldn’t happen if I were a more scrupulous curator, but it has not been a problem with other servers I’ve used. Also, Volumio seems unable to search by file format, and it cannot tell me a file’s sampling/ bit rate until after I start playing it.
Pass Labs INT-25 – CLASS A Review
February 2, 2021 Comments Off on Pass Labs INT-25 – CLASS A Review
HiFiman HE-R10P Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones Review
February 1, 2021 Comments Off on HiFiman HE-R10P Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones Review
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2020/11/30/hifiman
Now down to business. I found that the HE-R10P offered an overall smooth and warm airy sound with superb clarity, deep bass, and the illusion of a soundstage much more spacious than I expected from closed-back headphones. There was an intimacy with (say) singers and small ensembles; singers were close up in front sometimes making you feel that they were sitting in your lap. Even after long listening sessions while lying on my back on a couch or the floor even (after all there is no `sweet spot’ with headphones), the comfort level of wearing them was enduring. And they made me appreciate lyrics more than I usually do.
PS AUDIO STELLAR STRATA INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER $2,999 REVIEW
February 1, 2021 Comments Off on PS AUDIO STELLAR STRATA INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER $2,999 REVIEW
“I found the Strata to be quite robust operationally. In digital playback, it never failed to swiftly lock-in and play the digital signals fed through it. Using its USB input, high-resolution PCM signals up to 384 kHz and DSD signals up to 5.6 MHz (DSD128) were processed reliably. Even in streaming mode (Bridge), I found that the Strata worked well, although a bit sluggish in buffering tracks in comparison to a specialty streaming device like the Auralic Aries G1. This might be attributed to the smaller buffer capacity of the Strata’s Bridge as compared to the Aries G1. The PS Audio Connect streaming app was quite easy to use and it had an appealing interface. It had only basic streaming control functions, but it was quite sufficient for streaming control of the Strata”
How Coltrane Broke “My Favorite Things”
February 1, 2021 Comments Off on How Coltrane Broke “My Favorite Things”
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