Yes I've used Roon and Tidal at a pals place. Very nice UI.
Just filled in with Stream available stuff that was not file based - very neat.
I'm avoiding trialling Roon as many have said once you trial it, you will be forking out for it!
$119!

That and £20 a month for tidal and it feels pricey.

I've been completely frustrated getting a touch screen device I own to control Tidal.
Now I'm not the most up to date or hip with these things anymore.
1. WP - obviously no app.
2. Kindle fire HD I inherited, can get a Tidal APK but it won't side load.
3. Ipod (daughters old one), ah yes its in store but requires at least IOS8. Her generation IPod only supports up to IOS6

Note if we had a boggo Android phone or tablet in the house I'd be laughing!

As it is I'm up and down like good old vinyl:)

On a brighter note.
I just listened to the whole Stranger to stranger Paul Simon album on Tidal and now Spotify premium.
Can I really hear the difference.
Hmmm. Not so sure I could in a blind test tbh.
Turn off the upsampling in jriver and its a different matter. It's like a veil is lifted with it on (haha don't you love it when they write equipment reviews and say that

Much more evaluation to go...

Maybe a Roon trial as that is available for IPod at least I understand - I'll check




Update: Nope just as screwed on those devices trying to get / load Roon. Spotify is of course rather mainstream in comparison.






Christina Pluhar now playing! Wasn't quite prepared for the vocal highginks, but quite like it. A bit Jan Johansson like with clarinet and some of the instrumentals and rhythms on his baroque influenced Musik genom fyra sekler (Music though 4 centuries). He died in 1968, car crash most likely due to ice:(

I think so. Searches I've done have not suggested a browser..

At least the crappy new Kindle was cheap - £30 Marie said she gave for it. She does absolutely hate it though - so it's mine

Well that worked. 5th Generation Kindle install of Google play worked like a dream.

Google play store on your Fire tablet

Google play on the earlier HD Fire never seemed to work for me.

So there we have it, Tidal is there and it INSTALLED okay! Now I can test Tidal fully from my armchair.

Now to get Racquet Tune (so I can check the tension and tension maintenance of my tennis racquet re-stringings and a few other apps I am missing.

I found one artists album that Spotify does not have - Eric Kehoe's Duffy // Out of Doors.
It does have the album of his name though.
I remember when I bought Duffy // , the title sent Jriver into a real spin and as it confused the Duffy title with the artist Duffy and mixed them all up!
Perhaps Jriver 22 is better at this sort of thing. It certainly imported all my file catalogue totally without issue. Something Jriver 19 never managed.

It's just the phone version that's compromised at the moment. The tablet/laptop version does remote device control fine, which is a feature I shall try in some more depth once I've got wi-fi working in my music room.

Im listerning to Spotted one now, i personally dont think it has a patch on My FLAC files playback.

Well after so much digital streaming talk, and after nearly a year out, I plumbed the Technics SP-10 in this evening.
Levelled the deck (it's on a less than ideal Ikea unit at the moment, allbeit on my special mix of wood and granite platform with multiple sorbathane feet and Still Points).
Quick check of the VTA / VTF on the Fidelity Research FR64s and we were off.

Dark Side of the Moon first.
Then Ry Cooder Paradise and lunch.
Next up is Blues for the fisherman Milcho Leviev, recorded at Ronnie Scotts' 1980.

It does sound rather wonderful!

I do like the very well balanced (for a SPU) Ortofon Royal N sound.

Well walking wounded as I am at the moment I've been pottering in the workshop.
My back has been pretty severely done in by digging out turf for Marie's bigger, better cottage garden!
Pottering is good, sitting or straining/bending/lifting, bad.

I managed to make a pair of simple frames for the S2's / mid horns and tweeters.
These site them on top of the mid bass horn driver chambers.
Marie helped install.
Re-did the time alignment. Instantly I preferred the presentation.
Easy natural soundstage is back.
Why was I being buggering about having the mouths flush?! It was something I tried just before moving house and left it like that, having so much to do with the move and settling in etc!

I also made one new ali threaded collar for the S2's, and used one of the old ones off the smaller horns on the pair of 400Hz horns.

The jury is out on the 400Hz horns.
There are elements I prefer. Male vocals shine, need more time to assess. Certainly not bad.

These little mods are kinda like having new speakers, without the expense and hassle
+

I was looking at the Raal Lazy ribbon specs 3KHz - 50KHz. I use them 11KHz and up.

I'd forgotten they go so high! That's super tweeters taken care of..

I'm afraid the Photobucket debacle has wrecked this blog.
However Martin might be able to grant author edit so I could fix it.
I have all the photos of course, so watch this space.

I had a little Hifi gathering today - Martin, John, Mike and Stevec from TAS, and some pics were taken (not by me ), so perhaps they'll make an appearance here?

I was impressed by your music server solution John.
Thanks for bringing it along.
I see another upgrade on the horizon