2psyop
Responses from 2psyop
| Streamer vs computer? I am pretty sure you need an MQA device to finish the unfolding of the MQA titles on Tidal. With a Mac you can get 96/24 kHZ res, but with MQA certified device (streamer or dac) you can get 192/24 kHZ res. Of course there are many, many people tha... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature II: Is it worth the price of $2700? Why are so many for sale? Not knocking RV for his choice to sell on Music Direct. It seems it might be a pain for a dealer to show a pair of 3a Sigs and later have the customer buy online because he can get it a slightly lower price??!! I would add I might never listened t... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature II: Is it worth the price of $2700? Why are so many for sale? Yeah that seems likely since he has not chimed in. What a shame that people will do that. Vandersteen has, what seems, a very good reputation. The only thing I had heard negative was from my local dealer in Cleveland who felt slighted in a big way... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range ctsooner makes a very good point about subs. It is better IMHO to get a speaker with good bass designed and engineered into it..from the start. Much harder to integrate external sub later. Vandersteen does this early design well, and even their ex... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range I like the first two suggestions by Johnnyb63 and tomic 601.... | |
| Best standalone music server? Here is another idea. If you like it fine, if not okay too. I had bought a Bluesound Node 2 to add to my stereo. I already had a quality CD player and many, many CDs. So I wanted to rip all my CDs to a NAS to play via the Node 2 AND stream music v... | |
| Tidal, Deezer Can anyone tell me what the fascination is with "downloading files"?I guess owning music? Is better than streaming music? I find that by exploring hundreds of artists on the fly and listening is very enjoyable.I don't see any benefit to building m... | |
| Preamp: Parasound P5 vs Rotel RC1590 Your description indicates you favor the Rotel. I think many very good preamps do not have a toroidal transformer so therefore I don’t think it is a con. Go with what you want.....There are many DACs that don't measure well, but sound terrific!?!?... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! Maybe PL has softened their oversight of the Chinese factory where the amps are made. There have been investigations of factory workers swapping parts in the audio industry. There is a black market for parts. Needless to say, PL should give good c... | |
| Amplifier to complete a 7.1 channel system w/great stereo music performance? You could also do this, depending how much you live in the digital world. You could get Parasound A21 and pair it with a good, but simple preamp. You could get tge integrated Parasound which is a truly great piece of gear. You could get a Bluesoun... | |
| Amplifier to complete a 7.1 channel system w/great stereo music performance? I will dive in. Go with the Parasound A21. I have this amp and it has been the best 2 channel amp I have owned. Better than Odyssey Stratos, McCormack DNA-125 and a few others. It is a beast and John Curl is an excellant amp engineer. It should ma... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! You are really not buying recordings you are renting them. MQA is a streaming format, don’t know anyone who is downloading the music, although I suppose some are. Also when artists were losing money and recording companies were losing money (see m... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! Many people have complained that record companies are making $$$ from MQA. I don’t know how this is a bad thing? For many years around 2000, companies were allowing music sharing, think Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa and Limewire. The big deal was artis... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature II: Is it worth the price of $2700? Why are so many for sale? I have the 2ce Sig II. I had done what I offered as advice to the OP when I purchased the Vandersteen. I picked out audio shops within a 90 mile radius of my home and went listening to all brands. KEF, Klipsch, Totem, Magnepan, Paradigm, and at le... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! So you compared a streamed MQA track to a downloaded track, yes? I thought the point of MQA was the streaming part???? |