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    PCSPECIALIST Create a Raspberry Pi music streamer for little cash

    This is brilliant, this guy is called John Darko, he's big on YouTube as a high end audio enthusiast, but he is also big into lower end mod solutions. This latest one is a series he's doing on Raspberry Pi capabilities in Digital Audio. It starts with basics of Raspberry Pi configuration...
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    PCSPECIALIST LG DualUP - New dual aspect ratio perfect for coders and maybe photo editors

    This is a 16 X 18 ratio monitor, yes that 2 X 1440p screens on the VERTICAL! https://www.lgnewsroom.com/2021/12/lgs-award-winning-premium-monitors-designed-with-modern-home-office-workers-in-mind/lg-dualup_4/ It's not on sale yet in Europe but I expect this will have a huge following amongst...
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    PCSPECIALIST Free Audiophile recording samples

    Hi all In USA, there's a label called Chesky Records who do really high quality recordings, they have a big name in the industry and have won countless Grammy awards for their productions. The owner, David Chesky has just started up a side project called "The Audiophile Society". The aim is to...
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    PCSPECIALIST Free Music from Jalapeno Records

    Hi all If you're into a bit of funk, Jalapeno Records are giving away 2 compilations on their bandcamp. Jalapeno are the label behind Skeewiff if anyone hasn't heard of them, they're incredible and would highly recommend getting anything they've ever produced. These take you to the buy page...
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    PCSPECIALIST The new PSAudio FR30 speakers

    So, PSAudio are an american audio brand, they've been extremely successful with electronics, amps, DACs, pre amps etc. For probably the last 8 years or so, they've been really pushing to get into the speaker market. They've been through a couple of designs, the last literally having the full...
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    PCSPECIALIST New new Mac Studio with M1 Ultra SOC

    So, this is a bit of a beaut I reckon, although of course as with anything wait for 3rd party reviews. We know the performance of the M1 is pretty impressive. This is basically 2 x M1 Max chips sewn together with up to 128Gb on die RAM. Starts at $2000 for the M1 Max design - 10 core CPU, 24...
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    PCSPECIALIST PCS phonelines currently down

    Hi all Just saw this on Twitter, there's a phone outage around the PCS area affecting a lot of businesses, started around 2 hours ago and ongoing currently
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    PCSPECIALIST RTX 4000 leak

    Take all this with a pinch of salt as with any leak. For those who haven't heard, NVidia's servers were recently hacked and the hackers made off with over 1TB of data and even hash rate limiter source code and driver source code. They demanded that NVidia make their drivers open source on all...
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    PCSPECIALIST Norah Jones - Come Away With Me 20th Anniversary listening party

    Hi all and specifically @Tron1982 Can you believe it, this wonderful album is 20 years old tomorrow! There's a site called "Tim's Twitter Listening Party" which are hosting a universal listening of the album tomorrow with Norah being interviewed also. The site is here...
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    PCSPECIALIST The Speakers I want when I get a bigger place

    As you know, I'm an audio nut, since learning more about different technologies and approaches, one of the technologies for drivers in general I've become fascinated with is Ribbons, sometimes referred to as AMT or Planar Magnetic. There are 3 basic designs to speaker / headphone drivers: 1/...
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    PCSPECIALIST Another very cool Mini ITX

    The Thor-Zone Mjolnir
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    PCSPECIALIST Pretty cool Mini ITX case

    I'm a huge fan of tiny cases done well, but they're few and far between This one scores pretty highly Phanteks Shift XT
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    PCSPECIALIST Got bored and installed Windows 11

    I woke up at 5.30 this morning and was bored, so I went through hacking the windows 11 installer ISO to get it installed on my 2014 i7 4770k laptop. All working fine and receiving updates successfully. Performance is perfectly normal, no slow downs I can detect although haven't tried any...
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    PCSPECIALIST Possible Intel high end multi chip GPU???

    We all know I don't like Intel. But competition in any form is only good, especially when you're bringing in an entirely new competitor into an established and dominant 2 company race. This is by Coreteks, again, he is obviously quite embedded within the workings of the silicon world, no idea...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upcoming Alienware ultrawide upgrade

    If the previous offering is anything to go by, this is going to be a beautiful monitor for those with deep pockets https://www.techspot.com/news/93381-alienware-bringing-first-qd-oled-monitor-market-1300.html
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    PCSPECIALIST Founders edition cards and how to get them

    And because they stopped manufacturing the standard cards last November. It's only the TIs being produced now according to leaks https://www.hardwaretimes.com/latest-gpu-market-sales-indicate-that-nvidia-indeed-halted-rtx-30-series-production/...
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    PCSPECIALIST New Evil Dead coop game arriving on Epic

    Ash fans, evil dead game arriving as an epic exclusive coop game. https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/evil-dead-the-game
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    PCSPECIALIST MSFS 2020 getting DLSS!

    Upcoming! https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/mustafa-mahmoud/microsoft-flight-simulator-to-get-dlss-in-future-update/
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    PCSPECIALIST Problems with graphics drivers in Linux?

    Hiya If you're facing graphical issues when booting your flavour of linux, you may need to enable nomodeset. This disables the graphics driver just for the boot, and then starts it once the OS is loaded. This prevents kernel incompatibilities with some drivers especially with newer GPUs. What...
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    PCSPECIALIST Crysis 4 announced!!!

    OMG, all over the place at the moment, can't contain myself! https://www.gamesradar.com/crysis-4-has-been-announced/
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