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Just as a matter of interest, what did it cost 10 years ago? Assuming, of course, you are allowed to divulge.

Thanks for the fast responses. I will look into EaseUS but I'm a little leary of spending any more money. @resham Thanks, I will contact them. @juan I will contact you via the URL as requested. As I said, it died rather strangley, it never reported any bad sectors or read errors, it simply...

Hi All, can any forum members suggest reputable data recovery service providers? My HDD died under mysterious circumstances. It had a large amount of FLAC from vinyl I no longer own and CD's that are now damaged and other data (software I have written over the years) that I would be willing to...

Slightly oblique reply: in our neck of the woods we have a company called Blue Swirl. They're reasonably priced (in my opinion) and pick up every week. Once you get into the mode of recycling you'll be surprised how little ends up in your municipal bin. I'm not sure if you can drive to them...

Interesting. I have not checked out pricing in a while. That is almost at the point where I would consider getting the single-user plan and letting the kids wallow about in Spotify. After all, apparently, the "sound quality on my cell phone is really quite good".

That is a fair comment and most certainly the kind of comment I can use. To be fair to this thread though, I would prefer not to get into NAD bashing (I've done a fair bit of that myself after an ordeal with a 7Ch power amp that nearly drove me nuts). However, that being said, and if naks and co...

Thanks for the detailed reply. It does set my mind at ease somewhat. I will take some time to get the specs on those PSBs. I'm interested to see what their sensitivity is. I do a fair bit of stereo listening nowadays, but via the Bel-Canto straight to the amp. The rest of the time I use the...

Hi Guys, I would be very interested to know (can be subjective or objective) the differences between the T777v3 (which I currently own) to the T778 (which I may consider owning). I have lived with the T777 for a long time now and while it is a fair piece of kit, it certainly has its own set of...

I'm hoping members don't mind me raising a slightly old thread. I read through the thread, and could not immediately see if this was answered: is Spotify HiFi available in South Africa yet? I checked my stream quality and it seems no different from what it was a few months ago.

Excellent, thanks. I tried Volumio out a little while ago (on a Pi no less) and really liked it but it needed more oomph that the Pi could give (at the time). I'll do some reading on the others.

Cannot agree more! I really like Xfce (hence the Xubuntu persuasion). To a certain extent Xubuntu is Debian+Xfce, so I'm on board with that recommendation.

Hi, Apologies, I had some work commitments. Pop sounds interesting I think I'll check it out, hopefully, they do the live distribution thing for "try-before-you-install". What is your experience with "closed" source drivers (specifically audio/video) within the distribution are they easily...

Tagging on to what d0dja said, you can also (in a headless instance) run "ip a" at the command line to see what interfaces have been assigned with what names (and also the IP assigned).

Looks interesting. I've never tried Linux Studio, that sounds like a good option. Currently, I'm on Xubuntu which is about as pared down as you can get. I also ran on Lubuntu (which is even more pared down) but that had a few really annoying bugs which drove the family (read  :angrywife:) to...

I'll have a look again at this. A while ago Plex (much like OpenElec) was really just XBMC?kodi in a can but it seems they've "forked" it or started fresh in some way. I'll check it out. Thanks.

I have tried OpenElec in the past but was not overly impressed. It is effectively Kodi in a can, with enough limitations on the OS to make me hesitant. Admittedly I tried it on Pi3 and Pi2 quite some time ago. I wonder how it would fare on my NUC? I actually run an OSMC install on a Pi3 for the...

Hi Everyone, As of late, I have the feeling that the Kodi Linux implementation is not receiving a lot of love. I have a lot of unresolved bugs that have been present for some time now (especially the sleep mode bug which is really annoying). Problem is that I'm not a huge MS fan and would like...

Thanks SAJunky, I'm afraid you will have to explain some of that to me, it sounds very complicated. I can confirm that the USB RefLink is immediately recognised under Linux and it shows all the correct information both in the Audio GUI and if I check it via dmesg or lsusb. With the previous...

I can! I did. Thanks.

Hi Stereosane, Good to hear from you again! I bought the Bel-Canto and Ref-Link from George on the forum. The reason I know it is the USB is that it would appear and disappear under Linux and the most awful sounds would come out of it when it did get recognized. I went through to Makro and...