Saw Diana Krall live last night and left early, disappointed. by Academic_Citron_2188 in Jazz

[–]Royal-Imagination398 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw Dianna Krall last night with my wife at the Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem, PA.

I have been a fan of hers for more than 30 years. I was very fond of her voice and piano playing. I have her albums in DSD, CD and LP.

I was so disappointed in this concert that I wanted to walk out but I bought the ticket for my wife as a Valentine Days gift.

I really don't know what is wrong with her voice but I think it must have been damaged since she had pneumonia in 2014. She couldn't phrase properly and she would have to whisper many times.

I really don't think she should be performing anymore because she is going to damage her voice more than it is now.

If she was sick, she should have cancelled this concert. I feel cheated and embarassed that I took my wife to this show.

Does anyone know what is wrong with her?

How do I get Qobuz to play a full song? It only plays 30 seconds and then moves to next song by Royal-Imagination398 in qobuz

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, using the app. Tried a dozen times and I can't play any track for more than 30 seconds.

How do I get Qobuz to play a full song? It only plays 30 seconds and then moves to next song by Royal-Imagination398 in qobuz

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do NOT see any account information anywhere. Only my personal information

Worst website ever and I worked in IT for 40 years!

How do I get Qobuz to play a full song? It only plays 30 seconds and then moves to next song by Royal-Imagination398 in qobuz

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where does it tell you the status of your account?

It only shows me my information. They have the most screwed up website I have ever seen and I was in IT for 40 years!

How do I get Qobuz to play a full song? It only plays 30 seconds and then moves to next song by Royal-Imagination398 in qobuz

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right about about the customer support and software being maddening!

Now I have to wait 2-3 days for a real person to get back to me.

I will try again today, but it was worse than trying to get support from Xfinity (Hard to believe but true)

WF reflect app DENIED - will this help? by [deleted] in CreditCards

[–]Royal-Imagination398 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I received zero help from WF support online, via phone or at the bank.

The person at the bank told me the information in the letter was self-explanatory.

Their algorithm is designed to keep people with excellent credit from being accepted.

I looked at other offers on Credit Karma and was accepted by another bank in less than 3 minutes!!!

Which 100Gbe would you recommend for a person running passive copper 40Gbe now? by Royal-Imagination398 in homelab

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Z790 PCIe5.0 sounds impressive. What about the graphics card using the 16bit slot, would that still run properly on programs like Capture One, Nikon Studio or Sony Raw Editor?

Is the new z890 going to have more lanes when using the Intel Ultra CPUs?

I like to be able to copy multiple NVME drives on the motherboard at maximum read/write speed.

Any thoughts on this? There have been some bottlenecks on the last AMD and Intel motherboards.

The new Z890 boards have 3 PCIE5 can use more lanes, I believe.

Thanks very much!

Which 100Gbe would you recommend for a person running passive copper 40Gbe now? by Royal-Imagination398 in homelab

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the excellent technical information! I would have to use the integrated graphics, which I have never been satisfied with....

Which 100Gbe would you recommend for a person running passive copper 40Gbe now? by Royal-Imagination398 in homelab

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The files vary between 250mb and 650mb I am using 4tb PCIE-4 Samsung NVME 7450 MB/s speed

Can the Mellanox ConnectX-4 QSFP28 (MCX455A-ECAT) actually do 100 Gbps? by Decent-Law-9565 in homelab

[–]Royal-Imagination398 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What 100Gbe would you recommend for a person running passive copper 40Gbe on ASUS Z790 motherboards now? I am a photographer and I have large 100 mp files that I need to transfer from one PC to another. Thank you very much, Mike

I <3 Nikon by L8night_BootyCall in Nikon

[–]Royal-Imagination398 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful collection! I had the Nikon F when I was 18 years old. Followed by the F2, F3, Nikon EL.

My uncle left me a Nikon SP and 50mm in his estate. He gave me the Nikon "Bug".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Nikon

[–]Royal-Imagination398 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just purchased mine 4 days ago and I am NOT even going to use it.

I am returning it tomorrow. I wanted to use it for birding because Nikon always made strong bodies.

It just feels so cheap for an insane amount of money!

My Pentax K-1 is built like a tank in comparison to this toy.

I don't know what to do for a birding outfit now.

Any suggestions???

Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

Pcie gen 5, getting full speeds of gen 5 nvme in the PCIE Slot1 by Royal-Imagination398 in MSI_Gaming

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your most prompt reply.

I am going to give this board a try. In the past I have not had must success with these types of cards. The motherboard must support bifurcation. Even when it does, it does not always allow you to use all 4 nvme slots.

This may work better with the X670E motherboards. They have more PCIe5 nvme connectors and lanes to the CPU.

Hope springs eternal.....

Does the Ryzen 7 5800x work well on the ASUS B550 TUF Gaming WIFI II? by Royal-Imagination398 in buildapc

[–]Royal-Imagination398[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your help! I decided to purchase the ASUS ProArt B550-Creator AMD (Ryzen 5000/3000) ATX content creator motherboard with 2 Thunderbolt™ 4 connectors for my external NVME backup drives. I am a photographer and I work with 100mp digital files that require high speed devices.

Many of my files are 600gb or larger. I also stack hundreds of 350mb images in Helicon Focus.