Oh yes... I just wasn't thinking... quite apart from the stuff on playback equipment, and the cheapo unit EQ sliders that went Scrrrr even when they were new... I guess very, very many mics in studios and live sound venues get fed straight into mixers which are very much analogue. And, come...

  Of course it is.   Are you too young to remember those banks of sliders that, at a certain age, went "scrcrcrcrc" when you moved them?

  It begins with R and so does Right, which is why I always stuck to red=right for hifi wires.   But a seaman would say that red should indicate left.

  What? Not even a single anecdote?

    Accessing a bunch of data on one or more machines from one or many others is what networking has been about for decades. Doesn't matter that it is music.   Mind you, I use an old-school-techie model of simple files-in-directory-trees storage, and immediately reject media players that...

  OHMYGOD they're giving up hifi and going in for burgers!   But... you'know... Schiit Audio was a stroke of marketing genius. Schiit Burgers? Maybe not so much.

  The conversation has moved on, but, just for the record... I don't have any bagpipe music, but I could certainly listen to it from time to time. Scottish, Irish... etc.   And Taiko... oh wow yes!  Now there's  bass thumps to thrill the soul!

  I can, because I don't have to click on that red pay button!     What? People listen to it when they are not demoing hifi? Shock! Horror!   Well, ok, if I hadn'e got fed up by overexposure, I might listen to it once in a while. There is much "worse" pop music that I like an occasional...

I used to quite like Hotel California  until I spent some time with audiophiles. Now I detest it and run screaming from any room where it is played. It's a good thing I don't hang out with them audiophiles much any longer!   (For goodness sake... it's a pretty decent pop song, with a catchy...

  Don't you just hate it when people trot out abbreviations as if everybody should know them?   Sorry.   And thanks, Torq: yes I was. :)

Please note, I have not tried removing it --- but my guess is that a little IPA on a cotton bud would do the trick. I'd rate it as less permanent than nail varnish!   Perhaps you should have invited your store lady to help with the application --- but she might have been disappointed with your...

I just dimmed an LED using a fine felt-tip marker pen. I have covered it maybe 80%, and can see if it is red or green which is what I need, but it no longer irritates. It is directly under one corner of my monitor.   It's a Faber-Castell Multimark, if anyone wants to know, but, essentially...

  And not exactly starve doing it. And not expect your staff to starve either.   Win, win, win, win, WIN...  

  For "everybody," read, "Some people in America." I only came across this recently, and I was confused. I am now unconfused.   It is, but although people might mention 2.1 for those desktop systems where the speakers don't work well enough by themselves, it is all stereo. I love that...

  In principle, no trouble with Moto X Play and OTG DAC. My GO V1 is fine, direct or via powered hub.     My guess is that the problem is with Meridian --- or that it simply draws too much power for the phone. But the Geek-out is a miniature room heater, so I would think it is pretty...

  I don't get this! True, you have an unconventional approach, and a somewhat more human face than many audio companies, but you've never made any secret of being business men. Marketing is as business as it gets, for goodness sake! And your book, although it flies in the face of current...

  I bet that there are at least a few "golden-eared" audiophiles talking about the potential of sounds over 20kHz who would be rudely shocked by an audiogram. My hearing has taken an all-too-noticeable dip in about five months, but it hasn't always been like that: what you hear is what you...

  I admit to being 63... and too deaf to hear it any longer. In six months, the frequency response of my ears has plummeted. i can't even hear the kitchen timer, so I think I can take super-tweater off the wish list.   Well, hey ho... i can still hear some of the music, and at least I've...

  Indeed. But it has its corny moments!

  I never knew that!   Mind you, for someone who grew up in rural UK, my knowledge of crops and animal breeds is fairly dismal, and what I remember of it, having been a city boy now for over forty years, is worse.

  It's nicer than you think. A lot nicer.   Sure, I enjoyed a lot of my working days, but not having made it to be a doctor, or an artist, or anything like a vocation, I was not under any illusions: If the fairy godmother had entered my life with regular credits to my bank account, there...

How many times do I have to tell my wife that, when she speaks to me from the kitchen, I can't hear what she says?     But then... It's probably only something unimportant, like the hifi sounding different...

Sadly, many companies consider that salesmen should be compulsive liars.   Even more sad, some of those sales people lie their way out of sales into management.  They don't have the been-counting ability to be good administrators,  they don't have the technical knowledge to further the...

  There was plenty of sensory overload around back in the day.     And that, too, combined with substances that enhanced the senses, mixed them all together, and served them all up to the conciousness in completely different ways. Didn't you just love the taste of that last song?

I have always found that in their music: pure joy! OK, some of it does other stuff to the brain cells too, but I cannot listen to the Dead without smiling.   Yes, I have got quite a lot of Dick's Pick's stuff, and have not even listened to it all yet. These released archive sets come with the...