In a related event, today my monthly humor magazine, aka Stereophle, arrived in the mail. Gracing this month cover is a wonderful piece of audiophile equipment, namely the Apple HomePod.
Now to be fair, I read the entire HomePod review, written by Jim Austin, and it was surprisingly informative and covered all the major points of concern, namely design, construction and functionality. And while Mr. Austin does mention that the device makes extensive use of DSP I still feel that Stereophile and many of the other high end audio publications have yet to come to terms with DSP, which at this point in time, is being used just about everywhere. Elsewhere in this month's Stereophile were the usual audiophile suspects: an $8300 turntable (to better hear all that vinyl distortion), mono power amps with one pair at $42,000 and another at $119,000 (this price apparently is okay since "its construction quality is heroic"), a $2000 a pair of monitor speakers and Roon Labs $2500 music server. I just quickly scanned the Roon review and, of course, there is no mention of the Logitech Squeezebox ecosystem, apparently vinyl and CD are acceptable forms of aging technology but LMS is not. Go figure. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
