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    Grado Fan Club!

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    Lotoo PAW Gold Touch - Touchscreen, 4.4mm Bal, USB DAC, Bluetooth

    Anyone know how to force LPGT to rescan its database once you’ve added a song?
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    Grado Fan Club!

    What Grado open IEMs might look like (if Grado made open IEMS): Don’t these look like IEM versions of Grado’s RS1e? But they really are 634ears LOAK2-TX2.
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    Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread

    I listen to jazz and classical, mostly, using Focal Stellia or Grado PS1000 headphones. The QNAP TS451+ does not seem to have an optical out, only USB 2 and USB 3. I will take some pictures of the back cables and lights. I do run the TT2 output via 2 thick Grado 15 foot headphone extension...
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    Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread

    Thanks, all. Of all the gear I have, it is the USB output of my QNAP server that happens to be feeding Roon output to my MScaler. ‘When I first got the MScaler, I compared with MScaler vs. without, I.e. Roon feeding my Chord TT2 either through or around the MScaler. There seemed to be either...
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    Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread

    I have not been able to hear any significant improvement between 16x upsample and not upsample (1x) in my MScaler feeding my TT2. Posts on the TT2 about streamer quality make me wonder… I am running Roon on a TS-451 NAS drive with USB inputting to the MScaler. Is this a “good” or a “bad”...
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    Reply to review by 'ruthieandjohn' on item 'Lotoo Mjolnir'

    You stated that the XRC setting "XRC. This is Lotoo's built in upsampling feature which upscales PCM playback to 32 bits (from either 16 or 24)". Did you have XRC on or off during your comparisons? I understood XRC to increase the sampling rate, e.g., 44.1 kHz to 192 or so, not to increase...
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    Lotoo PAW Gold Touch - Touchscreen, 4.4mm Bal, USB DAC, Bluetooth

    I have just bought a wonderful LPGT-Ti to go with my PAW Gold, PAW-5000, and Mjolnir. It is great, but... How do I force it to rescan the database on the SD card? When I add an album from my desktop via USB (with LPGT-Ti in Storage mode), the album shows up there, but i not included in the...
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    New top Lotoo Mjolnir

    I have found that the Mjolnir makes ANY of my (50+) headphones and IEMs sound their best. Right now I have the Grado GS3000x and the GS2000e in use, but I often put on the Grado 2000e or the HiFiMAN HE1000.
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    New top Lotoo Mjolnir

    A whole month, and no more comments? Is everyone so busy listening, they can’t talk? Still loving my Mjolnir!
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    Feedback by 'ruthieandjohn' on listing 'Lotoo'

    A delightful sale! The seller was very careful to describe what was an invisible flaw on the body, and when the player arrived, it was in nearly new condition, and it worked beautifully. Delivery was very prompt.
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    Grado Fan Club!

    For those of us for whom our life’s savings is owed to Grado, we viscerally appreciate this “Ode To Grado!”
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    Schiit Gungnir DAC

    I sent the Gungir back to Schiit to get its USB working. Step 1: They changed the USB to a working identical USB ($89) Step 2: When I repeated my request, they upgraded my USB to Unison (adds a 2 yr warranty as well as improved performance) ($150) Step 3: When I received my upgraded Gungir...
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    Grado Fan Club!

    GS1000 vs GS1000i vs GS1000e I just received a pair of GS1000 headphones, augmenting my GS1000 collection to include all but the new GS1000x. The picture shows, from left to right, GS1000 (square rods, thin cable, dark wood, black headband), GS1000i (round rods, thick cable, dark wood, black...
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