Agree with others regarding FLAC. You can't judge this system without true lossless and, in fact, Unleashed 18 spraker is good enough to reveal which of your albums are better produced/mixed/mastered than others. It means riding your volume knob some from song to song on shuffle, but worth it...
Never got to see Zappa live unfortunately.
Have had some great music experiences in Austin though since my first time there in 1992. Saw Johnny Winter at Liberty Lunch that year, and a surprise guest appearance from Eric Johnson at Antone's on Guadalupe a few years later!
No DSP during the encoding, and the settings dbPoweramp suggest work fine.
I DO Set the Unleashed to Surround, as it absolutely sounds better than Stereo. I don't think that setting is a DSP as much as a way it distributes the signal to all the speakers. Some material gets distributed to the...
For anyone who wants 70s guilty pleasure one hit wonders this Rhino series is remarkable. Sound is extremely high quality, which is a Rhino hallmark. There are 22 or so in the series, and some seem to be impossible to find, but each one has some real gems I never thought I'd find. Genres are...
I should do a list like that! I see a lot of overlap with mine, although I have only four Zappa CDs (they all sound particularly great)!! I don't see my favorite though: Live in New York (the 1976 double set with Don Pardo doing occasional live narration!), I highly recommend that!
I should add I regularly so use the Bluetooth for calls with the USB drive in place. The Phone-to Sync4 Bluetooth connection has only one job: phone calls through the speaker. The USB has one job:music. Had no issues all, knock wood.
I have all that music on this little tiny drive put in one of the USB ports. No Apple or Android or Bluetooth or wired any thing else. This is the THE way to get maximum fidelity and reliability, as far as I can tell.
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Hi GDN,
I use the Windows desktop version of dbPoweramp CD Ripper. I think it was $30 or so but it works extremely well. Rips a CD to FLAC in a few minutes on a two year old i7.
I also have Exact Audio Copy as an alternative and sometimes use it if the database in dbPA doesn't find the info...
Discovered Sync 4 will let you use the Voice button on the steering wheel and say "Play Am Radio" or "USB" for my FLAC encoded songs! At first it would let me actually let me ask to play a specific song and would play it.
All of a sudden it says "Playing (name of song)" I asked for, but the...
New Limited with 275/50/22 Generals. No P or LT in front of the on tire sizing. Factory Tire and Sizing sticker says Cold Pressure is 35 psi.
Safe to assume these are P rating, and I don't need LT replacements (LTs would have much higher Cold Pressure recommendations)? Might do light...
Heard the CEO liveon TV today actually blurt out with a big smile, while standing beside the Lightning line: "If we have any chip shortages, the ones we get are all going in here first". So prioritizing the Lightning F-150 over all other F-150s, likely for ESG points I'm guessing.
Kinda...
Been playing electric/acoustic guitar since 1977 and am very picky about tone. The B&O Unleashed was a big factor in choosing the F-150 (actually tested with my own USB on a friend's Platinum, so I knew what it was before ordering). Had it less than a week and will give it:
4.5/5.0
Was...
New Limited has arrived... Will be parked underground, so cannot lift or level. Wondering what options are for getting deeper sidewall to reduce chance of tire failure/rim bends on backroads or for light overland options.
Open to 18" or 20" rims and being able to select from a wider range of...