ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| Quboz cuts off beginning of songs I've been using Qobuz on a Roon Nucleus+ server for several years now, USB into a PS Audio DirectStream Mk2 DAC and have never experienced that. | |
| What to expect for Audio Advice Live 2025? We moved to WNC (near Asheville) five years ago and I've made my way to the Audio Advice store in Charlotte; very nice store, great people work there. I'm going to make my way to Raleigh and enjoy the Friday show. It looks like they have 50+ bra... | |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old A few days ago I was at a meeting in my community and it seems that I was the only one in attendance not wearing hearing aids. | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. I've only had two "bad" experiences selling, in both cases, the "customer" wanted to see the item "in person" before making the payment. In one case the guy showed up at my home and decided that he'd pay $600 less than we agreed to on the phone. ... | |
| Anyone Bought a Roon Nucleus Titan Server? @kennyc Agreed! Much of the expense of the Titan seems to be in the visual aesthetics. If my Nucleus+ reaches "end of life", I'd probably replace it with a Nucleus One. | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? One of my gripes with some of the live performances we attend is that the volume level is too high for the room; you can see someone singing into the microphone, but can't hear anything they are singing, same with other instruments. Being a "7... | |
| Qobuz vs Tidal I stream using a Roon server, had both Tidal and Qobuz and did a lot of comparison and it was close, but found that when the same music sounded different, it usually sounded slightly better on Qobuz, so I dropped my Tidal subscription. Someone wr... | |
| One Sub or Two? If your budget permits, I'd recommend two subs. I have a McIntosh tube preamp and McIntosh solid state power amp, and a pair of JL Audio F113V2 subs, and that combination works great...with my Focal speakers. | |
| Anybody having trouble getting near-your-asking-price for used gear ? (Plz. no hype) It's just me, but I am open-minded to consider buying gently-used electronic devices on the used market for items that are currently available as new, but not so for speakers (and sub woofers), as I've found it's hard to determine if they've been ... | |
| Beware, scammers everywhere Another thing I've encountered is that when I've listed an item for sale on Audiogon, the communication begins on the site, but the potential buyer wants to talk and basically transitions the transaction off the site. One time I spoke with the "b... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles In 1978-1980 I worked at a high-end audio shop in DC and we had one of the early "electronic" systems where we could do "A/B" comparisons with either speakers, or electronics. One of my customers took a huge amount of time comparing a McIntosh so... | |
| Why bogus retail price from some sellers? I once worked with a guy who worked as a car salesman; he told me that they didn't make much on people who educated themselves on how much they could pay for the cars he sold, that they made their profit on "lay downs" or customers who got a price... | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? I have a Roon Nucleus Plus (mainly streaming Qobuz), USB into a PS Audio DirectStream Mk2 DAC, which sound awesome together. I also have a PS Audio PST disk unit, I2S into the DAC, which I use very infrequently, but also sound awesome. The DAC s... | |
| No God No! Say it Ain’t So! We all need to "take a deep breath" and relax for a bit. The Bose acquisition is probably not going the way of the Clarion years. Bose will probably assume the HR and accounting duties, but if they cheapened up the McIntosh product, they would b... | |
| McIntosh purchased by Bose...NOT an April Fool's joke. Most PE companies purchase a firm with lots of cash and/or good cash flow, drain the cash and replace it with debt, keep the investment for a few years and sell off the asset. From what I've read Highlander Partners purchased McIntosh, but was ve... |