General purchase advice: Ask your questions/for advice here!

[bigshel99]

maybe best to ask this in the general advices/questions thread

The General Advice/Questions Thread

Rather than having individual threads for every, specific, but limited-scope, questions, this thread is intended to coalesce all such questions into a single spot. Specific discussions around individual pieces of equipment, tools, software, and so on generally warrant their own threads. “Is headphone XXX better than YYY?” or “what’s the best DAC for $200” or “should I spend $200 on a cable or buy some ice-cream” threads are of limited/very-specific interest and are better served with specific …