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Wow… This software is amazing… If your into your music it’s a must have. One word of warning tho… It’s not cheap! Roon connects to Qobuz and Tidal for hi res streaming and all my FLAC files on the NAS. It’s discovery and meta data are excellent! Setup was dead simple… And it even runs under Linux if you want… Which I am doing BTW!

Well today I had to make the decision to put Bentley to sleep. He got really bad last night and wasn’t able to walk an didn’t want to eat or drink. The house feels different… Before I was never alone and always had Bentley happy to see me. Now it’s just quiet and empty.

I am going to take a break from pet ownership for a while. Don’t think I can deal with this again anytime soon.

He was a great dog and I will miss him.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/06/hbos-falsified-chernobyl-documentary/

Had an appointment at The Art of Sound in Lambertville today. Very nice store good super cool owner. I have a few devices on loan that I am demoing in house. I think will be using this store for my second 2 channel system upstairs in my guest room/listening room. I think I’m falling for the Devialet Expert 220 amp…. It’s beautiful, simple and sounds good! You can check it out here!

The shop has what should be a crazy bad rooms… With no treatment he had the sound dialed in and perfect! It’s all setup and placement and he’s a master at it. Audio Connection sounds good too but John uses treatments in the room… This was shocking good and all without acoustic treatments,

https://www.whathifi.com/news/bluesound-defends-sonos-patent-infringement-claims

I think Bluesound’s products are totally different… Hopefully Sonos doesn’t win this one.

I set a goal for myself years ago… Loose weight and once I get to my goal get the ST-L super towers… Well I did it!

The sound is quite good but I will come back to that as they need more time to break in. One thing I can comment on is they go low… Really low! And do it effortlessly. I can hear the room modes walking around with them playing bass notes. Definitely going to need room tuning and proper placement in the near future.

I will be driving them and the other speakers in the theater with Emotiva or Anthem electronics. Still not sure which yet… Emotiva looks interesting but Anthem has ARC room correction which is something I would like to try. I have time as my wallet needs a break!

Decided to try making my own cables for my theater system instead of going the Audioquest or Kimber route.

Got 30 feet of Mogami 3104 OFC cable for the purpose. Still waiting on the banana plugs and techflex to arrive. Right now I am using zip cord and I can hear it in the mids to highs.😭 Will post a picture of the finished product!

I was finally able to get a gigabit connection at home! It even costs less then I was paying before! Its on a congested node but it’s still way better then before. Thankfully they seem to upgrade the nodes quite often so maybe on the next iteration I will get the full speed. Now I can get more Nest cameras for around the house.

I went to the UPS customer pick up today because I bought some new home theater speakers for the living room. The speakers were huge and heavy and the guy actually came out and helped me between customers! He lent me his knife and even brought me a cold water. Absolutely fabulous customer service. More companies need to hire people like him. UPS, you are doing something right and you have my business because of it! Thumbs up!

Some pictures from the High Line park in NYC. Went with my girl a week back and it’s a really nice park. Highly recommended!