Comments on: First Look: ARCAM Radia Series Integrated Amps, CD Player and Streamer Bring HiFi to a New Generation

By: Ian White

Ian White — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:01:03 +0000

In reply to ORT.

ORT,

I can vouch for that one.

Not that I can disclose which “HiFi” products were on the CES Innovation List that I just voted on, but Chris just covered them here. *hint

It’s Friday somewhere.

By: ORT

ORT — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:38:49 +0000

In reply to Chris Boylan.

Hi Chris!

In many ways I am more “abby normal” than most, believe me. Perhaps my disdain for services such as this one stems from not wanting to appear to be a sheeple. 🙂

And (fr)Audio is already chock-flocked with both sheeple and shearers. 😉

ORT

By: Chris Boylan

Chris Boylan — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 05:19:48 +0000

Hey, ORT,

Thanks for reading. We can always count on your for color commentary, 😉

Streamers need access to local digital files on your PCs or local network. They can do this with a uPnP server (if you have one) and there are some free and low cost UPnP servers out there. Roon makes access to local digital files simpler and also integrates all the music metadata so your collection is easier to search and create playlists. These are a couple of reasons that many streaming players are “Roon-ready.” It’s certainly not a requirement but it can make accessing local music easier.

By: ORT

ORT — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:27:03 +0000

Thank the Bhuddah!! I can spend mo’ to get less but still pay mo’ to be a certified Roonatic.

Can I rename everything attached to this as a Roonie spEndPoint? WTF izzat anyhooz? Oh, mayhap (an archaic term used by only the most Ancient of Audio Denizens) way to make something that plays or “streams” (UGH!) noise within the Rooniverse?

Speaking of that mukiverse? WTF? Are people so weak willed as to require the RooniMuse® help them pway they moosics? I am handicapable and yet still I can hit the Play or “Random Play” button on a CD player. Or select my input on my own. Or choose my “station” from Pandora, again, on my own.

These last few generations are naught but cuckolds gone mild! Sheer Roonacy. In the year 2023, if man is still alive. If woman can survive they may fiiiindd…Zager & Evans were right.

Some machine’s doin’ that for you. What a bunch of pussies. And for you sensitive new age guys/gals, “pussies” is short for “PUSILLANIMOUS”. I suggest you look it up now that I have spelled it for you. 😉 Alas that the majority of you feel that “Notre Dame’ is a College Destination featured in your fave episode of “GLEE”.

I don’t know whether to read “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll or “A Modest Proposal” by Swift.

The Punchback of nORTre Dumb