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[mansr]

6 minutes ago, mlknez said:

Where would you put a product such as the Marantz AV-8805.  A preamp with both digital and analog processing with no amplifier built in?  It is a preamp but not analog only.  It is not an AVR as it has no amplifier.

Such devices are sometimes given the name pre/pro (preamp/processor).

[The Computer Audiophile]

I added categories for AVR and Preamp / Processors

[austinpop]

Chris, how do you want to handle my (and others') front page reviews? Create an entry with a link to the review? Or exclude? I'm OK either way.

[austinpop]

15 minutes ago, mansr said:

Such devices are sometimes given the name pre/pro (preamp/processor).

 

True, although of late the term AVP (audio/video processor) seems to be more in vogue.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, austinpop said:

Chris, how do you want to handle my (and others') front page reviews? Create an entry with a link to the review? Or exclude? I'm OK either way.

Create an entry with a sentence or two, a star rating, then link to your review. Here's how I do it.

 

 

[austinpop]

3 hours ago, k-man said:

I would move the ‘Master Clocks’ out of the DDC category to Accessories:

dCS Vivaldi MC

Auralic LEO GX reference MC

dcS Rossini MC

Mutec REF10 MC

 

 

Actually, I would just call this category "External clocks," unless you want to further separate into "Reference clocks" like the Ref-10, and "Word Clocks" like the Rossini and Vivaldi. 

 

I hate the term Master Clock, as it's a made up marketing term that is applied interchangeably to reference and word clocks.

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 minutes ago, austinpop said:

 

Actually, I would just call this category "External clocks," unless you want to further separate into "Reference clocks" like the Ref-10, and "Word Clocks" like the Rossini and Vivaldi. 

 

I hate the term Master Clock, as it's a made up marketing term that is applied interchangeably to reference and word clocks.

For now I think the purely digital DDC category will work. There isn't enough of these to have their own category. Plus, the search tool can bring up all the clocks pretty simple.

 

I can always be persuaded if I've looked at this incorrectly. 

[k-man]

My suggestion was because of the many products in this field that will be put into the DDC category because of the handling of the digital transmission; it’s going to be a crowded category . Since the clocks I mentioned don’t process digital data (only making another clock be slaved to it), I thought it be best elsewhere. The other Mutec products have digital inputs and outputs so by definition remain in the category.

[The Computer Audiophile]

4 minutes ago, k-man said:

My suggestion was because of the many products in this field that will be put into the DDC category because of the handling of the digital transmission; it’s going to be a crowded category . Since the clocks I mentioned don’t process digital data (only making another clock be slaved to it), I thought it be best elsewhere. The other Mutec products have digital inputs and outputs so by definition remain in the category.

You're certainly not incorrect. This will be massaged as we work out the kinks.

[k-man]

1 hour ago, austinpop said:

I hate the term Master Clock, as it's a made up marketing term that is applied interchangeably to reference and word clocks.

I can’t imagine you can convince these manufacturers to name them anything else more appropriate without hurting their sales. 🤑

[SuperRoo]

Would it be hard to have a way to view all new from the main page?

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, SuperRoo said:

Would it be hard to have a way to view all new from the main page?

Yes, but the activity stream can do this for you easily. 
 

Try to access this stream or create one. 
 

https://audiophilestyle.com/discover/373/

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 minutes ago, SuperRoo said:

Would it be hard to have a way to view all new from the main page?

Yes, but the activity stream can do this for you easily. 
 

Try to access this stream or create one. 
 

https://audiophilestyle.com/discover/373/

 

 

[SuperRoo]

Thanks bookmarked yours.

[The Computer Audiophile]

if mine is inaccessible to some, the one below should work. 
 

 

https://audiophilestyle.com/discover/376/

[Matias]

I just tested Polestar by adding a new item (Mola Mola Makua preamp). Some observations:

- Preamps are listed both in its own category "Preamp / Processor" but also under "Analog Components". I think it should be moved from the latter into the former.

 

- If I understand correctly, Polestar is the same as Head-Fi's "Head Gear" section. But there when I created a new item it uses the picture I attached to display it large in before the item description. I think it looks nicer, could you enable this on Polestar as well?

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 minutes ago, Matias said:

I just tested Polestar by adding a new item (Mola Mola Makua preamp). Some observations:

- Preamps are listed both in its own category "Preamp / Processor" but also under "Analog Components". I think it should be moved from the latter into the former.

 

- If I understand correctly, Polestar is the same as Head-Fi's "Head Gear" section. But there when I created a new item it uses the picture I attached to display it large in before the item description. I think it looks nicer, could you enable this on Polestar as well?

Hi Matias, thanks for creating the entry for the Mola Mola amps. 
 

The main item photo is attached in the area near the bottom, in a separate field. I attached it there for this product. 
 

 

[Matias]

I added 3 reviews by now to get it started.

[The Computer Audiophile]

9 minutes ago, Matias said:

I added 3 reviews by now to get it started.

Excellent. Thanks!!!

[baconbrain]

Is it possible to post reviews which compare multiple components of a certain category, for example Ethernet Cables?

[The Computer Audiophile]

4 hours ago, baconbrain said:

Is it possible to post reviews which compare multiple components of a certain category, for example Ethernet Cables?

This isn’t possible unfortunately. Such a review is better placed in the forum. 

[MetalNuts]

It seems to me weird that there are a lot of gears listed there which I believed to be put based on the popularity and/or suggestion of the users l but there is not much review posted so far. 

 

However, if an individual post with a topic of XXX is great or sucks, usually there are at least a number of posts either supporting or disagreeing.🤨

[The Computer Audiophile]

2 minutes ago, MetalNuts said:

It seems to me weird that there are a lot of gears listed there which I believed to be put based on the popularity and/or suggestion of the users l but there is not much review posted so far. 

 

However, if an individual post with a topic of XXX is great or sucks, usually there are at least a number of posts either supporting or disagreeing.🤨

Yes, we will get there. We are just getting started.