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Introduction Although I’m personally a raving fan of TIDAL as my main audiophile streaming service, I can understand why Spotify is such a popular choice among the younger generation. First of all, the stability and ease of use of their smartphone apps is unbeatable (although TIDAL has been catching up lately). In addition, you have […]

I just noticed that I’ve recently not been posting a lot to my blog. This has been primarily for work reasons. I have a busy main job in the IT industry. I’m sure some of you can relate to that :) Couple of months ago, I felt the desire to own a speaker rig. Don’t

Introduction If you’ve spent a considerable amount of time ripping, archiving and possibly tagging your precious music library, the last thing on earth you want is a storage disaster. Unfortunately, spinning hard disks are not the most secure way to store your music collection for an extended period of time. In the computer industry, failure

Introduction I recently attended a regional Head-Fi Meet in Vienna, Austria and had a an absolute blast! Where else can you listen to multi-thousand euro setups and hang out with some really nice people who share the same hobby? There’s no dealer anywhere who can let you sample such a wide variety of audio gear.

Introduction I recently purchased two Kindle Fire HD 8 tablets from Amazon (Adertising Link) for my kids to stop the endless fights for a single gaming device. My kids primarily use them for Minecraft and the occasional YouTube video. As an Amazon prime member, I can access tons of videos and music which is really

Introduction Roon is a clever music streaming architecure that has taken the audiophile community (and myself) by storm. And with good reason. It just works perfectly well. I couldn’t believe how easy it was upgrading to the latest version 1.3. Not only was my Core automatically migrated, it even updated my Raspberry PI endpoint without

It’s been an exciting year for audiophiles and as 2017 is just around the corner, I want to wish all my readers happy holidays. Stay healthy and happy! Regards, Michael

Audiophiles spend too much time optimizing their gear when true music enjoyment should actually be on top of their lists. Since discovering Roon Labs, my life has completely changed (in a good way that is). As soon as I start listening, I cannot seem to get enough of my own albums. I also discover new

[modular_content id=”3899″] If there’s one particular weakness of the Raspberry PI for audiophile use, it’s definitely its poor interface implementation. Not that it’s really bad but even the PI 2 Revision B has to share Ethernet and USB bandwith due to hardware limitations. Many enthuasiasts have reported annoying pops and clicks when listening to music

As many of you may know, the Raspberry PI is a credit card sized miniature computer that can be used for tons of things. I actually started playing around with the first gen of the PI back in 2012 and it certainly looked promising for music server projects. Unfortunately, I felt that the 700 Mhz