dougthebiker
Responses from dougthebiker
| Am I Getting Soft Here? We’ll said, grislybutter. | |
| Am I Getting Soft Here? In my experience, there's a very loose relationship between SQ and $ spent. Recently listened to the system of a member of the local audio club. Poor guy spent probably $500k on his system and I have hugely better SQ in my sub-$50k system. I wo... | |
| Snake oil of the year? Tough to judge by the picture of your system, but you might be several thousand dollars away from the ehternet switch being the weak link in the chain. And for free, you could improve your sound by experimenting with speaker placement in your ro... | |
| Solid state to tube If you want no tube hassles, go for a model that uses 300B’s. The new Western Electrics come with a 5 year warranty. They are $1,500 a pair, but well worth it IMO in terms of SQ. | |
| Pass labs upgrade path I haven’t sprung for the Townsend platforms yet, but @millercarbon was definitely right about the Nobsound springs. Big improvement under my speakers and they are crazy cheap. I’d prefer that no one tries to ban anyone with good advice. It’s h... | |
| Aurender N20 If you really want to torture yourself, go over to the Roon Community website where they get hot under the collar telling you bits are bits and you don’t even need a streamer. Just go directly from a Nuc running Roon into your DAC! And since the... | |
| Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? Best thing I ever did for room response was move my sub about 4’ BEHIND my listening position. Suggested by Paul McGowan of PS Audio. It really works! | |
| USB cables conducor - help @lalitk is correct | |
| Streamers/DACs I agree with @jerryg123 Don’t depend on anything but an independent DAC. Even in a great amp or streamer. DACS get radically better every year. I run a NUC server with an Innuos streamer and I have never heard anyone’s system at any price sou... | |
| The Beatles Revolver Check out the Beatles Love LP. I think Giles was involved in that and the SQ is great. It is a total re-engineering of the originals, but I like the fresh take. | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... You’re getting a wide variety of advice here, some good and some bad. with the price of the rest of your system, it would be a gigantic waste to keep an ordinary PC in the chain. I’ve found that Roon running on a separate dedicated server (like... | |
| Router for Audio Streaming BTW, if you believe Audio Science Review, you should be switching to lamp cord for your speakers and snapping up used Radio Shack interconnects. Seriously, the guy doesn't want to admit he doesn't know which variables to measure or at what scale. | |
| Router for Audio Streaming Not really. | |
| Router for Audio Streaming @yoramguy1, wireless is truly inferior. It's like going back to MP3's instead of CD's. Digital signals in routers, cables and WiFi are not 1's and 0's. They are analog square waves that get decoded as 1's and 0's. All sorts of things - cheap r... | |
| Router for Audio Streaming @yoramguy1 It’s best to trust your own ears. I think the UpTone Audio EtherRegen has a 30 day trial period. If you can’t hear an improvement, you send it back and save $600! |