UncleMeat

When Zappa released this song, the ADL wanted it 'banned' LOL.  All that did was create more publicity.

In order to be fair and politically/ethnically neutral, Zappa wrote this song:

UMRK WARNING: Some people (cupcake eaters) might find this material offensive. I for one, care less for them.  -The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen

The very nature of a joke is to laugh at the folly, misfortune or expense of another individual, ethnic class, sex, or religion.  There isn't much in this thread that wouldn't offend someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Asking people to post politically correct jokes is a joke in and of itself.

JMO

On 7/11/2018 at 8:32 PM, WJStephens said:

 

Yes the transporter is the HQ audiophile version. Nice. I started with the classic before Logitech took over and slowly destroyed everything. What a great company it was - call them and you actually get an engineer on the line to help you. Anyway, I got a second SB a Duet, both worked find but then I had troubles with the classic and got another duet via ebay. Now one of the duets is crapping out - sometime works sometimes not. The software on my Ipad and Iphone is also buggy and annoying, I don't bother with the duet remote as it is so inferior to the phone/pad interfaces. Maybe some of the issue is with my WiFi network, but I doubt it. My DVD player works fine streaming movies from the internet at the same location as the duet which is plugged into my main rig. It's quite frustrating.

Have you tried talking to the folks over at http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Logitech stopped supporting the Squeezebox hardware, but there are a  great number of people still using the products and several are still developing software for it.

Once up/running my Transporter has been trouble free.  I have more issues with the Mac that runs the server software than the unit (always asking if I want to "allow" the Transporter to connect).

WHICH Squeezebox @WJStephens ?

I'm running the Logitech Transporter, works fine for me.  A well known/respected C! member sold me this unit and he was telling me that the standard Squeezebox units are issue prone and are of reduced audio quality.  There are quality differences between streaming players!

What other units have you compared the Polk Omni P1 with David?

17 minutes ago, halfbaked said:

Unclemeat decisions are a matter of personal taste and we all try to make do and enjoy what we can. I'm not a.streaming type but I try to understand the other side of the coin. Players even in the 80's could really be an unexpected surprise. So I hear you.

There are two digital players in my system and one of 3 CD players that do not give me listening fatigue.  The other two (Marantz CDR-510 and Marantz PMD-371) are good but you can hear some 'issues'.  The Marantz PMD-580 and the Logitech Transporter are excellent for digital sources.  The Carver SD/A-490t is magical with the right tubes.  Above all of these still sits the Marantz SLT-12 turntable (for me).  Yes, the Transporter has more dynamic range, and there are are no 'ticks' on soft passages; but for lifelike sound (in my system and to my ears) the turntable still wins.

Mostly vinyl, some CD'S, some streaming.  I don't have a high-res service I've bought a few tracks from iTunes for reference songs.  It's supposed to be a lossless format, but still CD quality not high-res.  The player is most important when it comes to playback of CD or digital streaming sources.

7 hours ago, Charlie said:

 

That song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the film won Best Original Score and Best Original Writing.  The 4th award was for Best Cinematography.

 

So instead of Carver Amazings or Martin Logan (?) you bought Mark Levinson (Amp?).  I'm confused.

How did the Amazings compare to the Marin Logans when you were auditioning them?  I'm assuming this was back in the early 80's?  When I auditioned Carver AL-III's back in ~'91 I was astonished at the clarity of the cymbals.  I now own Amazings wih 60" ribbons.

On 10/18/2017 at 10:14 PM, UncleMeat said:

Listen for the 'acoustic saw' throughout 'The Old Homestead', starts at ~1:20.  There are also times when you can hear the saw player pop it to start the sound but it does not start to resonate.  The sound of the saw floats around in the soundstage!

Remastered version, Youtube deleted the 'original'...

On Vinyl!

Can a C-4000 be updated to a C-4000t?

Also, being a dual-radiator that would be difficult to design for; unless you scrap the existing case.  If I recall correctly, these are designed to be in a sealed enclosure; the amp could overheat if there is not enough back-pressure/back EMF.

https://youtu.be/_bqDAvhm_RU

Some of those older compilations are great, and well made. Nice find!

I thought they were only sold in pairs, and if so the numbers -should- be sequential. 9 months apart is a large amount of time in terms of new sales so either one may have been replaced or the original purchase was mixed up stock or open box.