HappyTrails

First, I have come to appreciate a well engineered recording almost as much as the artist themselves. There are quite a few vinyl's that either sound great or like crap. I hear so much new stuff that is engineered for headphones so it seems. But here is one that really disappointed me. Movie was great! Made me dig through my collection looking for sound city recorded albums. I own several, Rumors, Damn the Torpedo's are the 2 the come to mind, and they are well recorded. So, the movie made me buy the vinyl almost immediately from Amazon. Boy was I disappointed. Ghrol seems to like to compress and then bump the loudness, the new trend in digital recordings. I will say my range expander helped some on this album but a major let down in sound quality

The first I can remember, and this would be around 5 or 6.

I was surpirsed to see all the channels availble on Roku after I began to look. So I will need to pick up a small monitor or tv to feed the roku, but I think I will incorporate it into the system. Plus I think I can hard wire the Roku, which might improve the quality overall, including Pandora. The cool things one learns on this BB Paul

Per Grace Digital as a FYI: Paul, Thanks for writing in. I’m sorry to say that currently no Grace unit can play MOG but we are working towards offing more extra features MOG being one of those. Best Regards, Megan Tech Support

http://www.roku.com/channels/#!details/2136/mog

Thanks! That is good info to know. I own 2 Roku boxes, and stream Netflix, Amazon and Pandora never bothered to look for MOG. I will do so this evening And I have a wifi capable bluray player which I plan on using to steam, thus freeing up 1 Roku. Hmmmm, a cheap screen would act as a UI and both boxes have RCA outs, plus I can hard wire the Roku thus a better stream rate! Thanks that actually is very good info the more I think about this!

Bean, Playing around with MOG, or trying to..... I do like the quality so far of the stream 2 things so far: 1) On my laptop sitting in Starbucks the streaming is terrible.... multiple pauses on every song. Not tried this at my house yet, but plan to this evening. Its on a new laptop (running Linux) and the wifi signal is strong. I am bouncing between MOG and Pandora as a comparison. Pandora One I do not have the pauses, but I can hear a difference in quality, which I should since its 2x the bit rate I went to the support page and that seems to be a real issue with a lot of MOG subscribers. Have you had any issues? 2) Finding anything that says it will play MOG is impossible. Nothing lists MOG, not even the Squeezebox you mentioned. I want a quality unit to connect at home should I pursue MOG. Grace has a digital tuner that would look nice but no information on MOG, but then no information on MOG. I do plan on calling today since no emails have been answered by anyone I sent them to yesterday.

Well I sent emails to several: MOG, to ask what players are supported. Not real clear on the web site. Grace, as to if my Solo would play MOG, if not, then what player they have that does. And Pandora, as to why the sound quality has dropped. I still question if its something on my end, but I think I have ruled out all possibilties. The only other possible on my end is a poor wireless signal? I do stream Netflix and Amazon with no real issues, but I guess that could cause degraded sound quality?

Cool. It took over a year of a couple people bugging me to do it before I jumped in and now I can say its made my commute to and from work, and during MUCH better. That and I also have a Squeezebox that has a MOG app so I can use my phone to pull up my favorites, etc. It makes those few mins here and there I have to listen to music much more efficient, albeit at the cost of quality, but I find for most listening its adequate. I will PM you my phone number if you want so we can discuss it sometime as I honestly am a HUGE fan. Its also a great way to listen to an entire album before buying a CD copy so you know what your getting... I like everything I am hearing (pun intended). I signed up last night but didnt have a chance to play around much, and not much today. I need to investigate the players, as that is the one thing I use most often. Logitech and Grace both make them I think?

I will check them out!! it's definitely Pandora that has the poor quality other stations on the grace do not suffer from the same quality loss in my testing this evening

Yep, High Quality.

I am a subscriber of Pandora, what ever the yearly cost is I happily pay. I listen to Pandora about everywhere, including the main stereo through a Grace digital radio (sim to IRA 500) Just recently I noticed that the sound quality was off, poor is a better description. Static, loss of quality on the high and low end, and increased as the volume went up. I thought this might be a bad connection. So I swapped out the RCA cables, no effect. So, I changed sources inputs on the C1 from Aux 1 to 2, still no effect. Went to the tuner input, no effect. So I disconnected the Grace and stuck my Nexus 7 into the loop, still poor quality. My phone is the same I mentioned to my son who runs his Pandora through his system via the computer. He said the same thing,poor quality. Its to the point I am soon to stop listening as it makes my system sound terrible. CD's, Vinyl sound great! Has anyone else noticed this? Paul

I use quite a few in daily conversation, and unsure of the origin of any. Here are a few: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" "There are 2 sides to every story, then there is the truth" For any cyclist and runners here (I am) " The hill eases off once we get to the top" And my favorite when asked about projects at work " All I lack is finishing" Paul

I just picked up one of these. My family increased my collection by several hundred and I wanted to clean all of them. Its not quick but it really does a nice job. The microfibers they supply are a bit weak but I picked up some additional ones from the local hardware store. I had some really dirty LP's and this really did the trick! http://www.amazon.com/SPIN-CLEAN-STARTER-RECORD-WASHER-SYSTEM/dp/B002UKSZUU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379243485&sr=8-1&keywords=spin+clean