Can’t she get a loan and the government will just forgive it? Get that stereo equipment! 
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I’ll be applying for refunds for both kids student loans we paid off 10 years ago 
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That looks more like Roons PEQ not what I use. you can use both at same time. So baseline is convolution and adjust with PEQ . Use your roon ipad remote right while listening.
Oh, man, this is killin’ me.
My next upgrade is an MK II, which I ordered Dec. 31st. I sense that it’ll be ready to ship soon, but I’m leaving town for a couple of weeks and have to put a hold on shipping until we return.
Waaaahhhhhhh… 
(**) I was really hoping it would be in before leaving, but, oh well… Good things come, and all that rot.
(**) Sorry. I don’t know how to act my age; I’ve never been this old before.
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I feel your pain…
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I have a large order of 7 Audio custom audio treatments coming from Europe for my dedicated room. Thanks to @MTB_Vince for the recommendation.
Luke is custom finishing them to match the finish on my Betas!
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It’s fascinating to me hearing about people’s approach to cash, life and hifi. We’re lucky in Australian that university isn’t as expensive as it is in other countries, and that we do well on pricing of imported hifi gear. My kids are 12 and 15 and we’ve had an investment account running for their uni costs since they were babies, so the pressure is off. In some ways my wife is tight with dollars so we’ve got no mortgage and have almost reached our retirement savings goal (were it up to my finance skills, we’d be living in a cardboard box).
But I look back on life (I’m 50 in June) and realise we’ve still had fun. Me with hifi and my wife with quilting and study. She’s working on university degree number eight. EIGHT! If education cost as much as it does in US, she’d be no chance.
I just bought Focal Stellia, and an Innuos PhoenixUSB will be next.
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It sounds like it’s gone well for you!
I had to look up from your public profile - you live within a short distance of both a “Kangaroo Flat” and an “Emu Creek” - does it get more Australian?
When I was researching my (50 year old) “Sunday speakers” - Richard Allen Pavanes - I kept finding Australian references to their import, seems like the HiFi market has been healthy a long time there
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With 85 active IP addresses and about 30 audio units all operating wirelessly at up to 24/192 PCM, I need good wifi.
Terminating ethernet cables is fun. The Amazon stuff has very thin wires and is near impossible, but I have about 30m of AudioQuest Pearl CAT 6a, the conductors are much thicker and and it is very easy to terminate with a kit off Amazon for about $40.
I have to use ethernet over mains for my office telephone. None of this is connected to my hifi power, which is on a separate 100A feed.
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I am very happy I do not have your network!
“Watch for the BACCH-SP filter to be licensed by other high-end manufacturers—it’s already happening.”
No mention of the S/W only version.
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I got an email today stating mine should ship by Wednesday. The DSP software was incremented too and I got that email but nothing to install that yet. I’d much rather wait and get equipment with the update already ready to go
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I ordered my DS Mk2 on 12/22 and received it on 17/23.
Still breaking in, but sounding amazing. Better every day…
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Especiallly with the introduction of mesh wifi around 5 years ago, wifi can really be very bullet proof these days as well, it’s at that crossover point where it really is becoming good enough and reliable enough to warrant switching over for a lot of uses, including audio.
I just use my phone for Internet. And two Ethernet cables. EZ.
Out of 85 devices, only 3 need to be wired - my Innuos music server, my QNAP server and my landline telephone.
I get 400mbps this morning from my modem’s wifi:
but when I switch to my wired Ubiquiti access point wifi that goes down dramatically, but it is still perfectly good.
Mesh is a killer to the signal and slow, so I switch it off. When I tell Alexa to switch something on or off, like the lights, I want it to happen inside a second, not after 3 or 4 seconds. My Ubiquiti supplier advises against Mesh if possible. My entire wifi system probably cost less than $1,000.
I’ve not had a problem using wifi since 24/192 streaming became available 5 or 6 years ago. Before that it was bullet-proof for 24/192 files using dedicated broadcasting, like Devialet Air. Sonos worked the same way, but at lower rates. All that is now redundant, devices have much better aerials and wifi can be improved by software updates.
Changing broadband supplier with a new modem used to involve hours of configuration. This time, it was changed on Thursday, all I had to do was fix the IP addresses of about 15 devices, which took 5 minutes.
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I only have two wires going my music room, fibre for the music server and CAT6a for the wifi access point.
However, I have wifi speakers throughout the house and in the garden room 30m from the house, plus all the lighting, security, fire/smoke monitors, thermostats and kitchen appliances all require reliable wifi.
Can’t wait for it to appear on an iPhone update.
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This does look like one of those step changes in home audio.
The company that distributes PSA in the UK has signed them up, but no dealers or retailers have yet taken it on. The high-end dealers that would likely take it on aren’t in their regular dealer pool, and it probably needs really good demo facilities.
Nice to see it’s named in honour of Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Have tickets for a performance in April: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner at St Martin’s-in-the-Fields.
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