rbstehno
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| Help in Sarasota Florida…Will Pay for help in setting up my room and equipment… Jim smith. He is very knowledgeable. Anybody else how do you know if they know how to do this. I’ve read Jim’s book, Paul McGowan book, visited and asked Cardas and also have info from the old Rives Audio room setup, so I do my own setup using the... | |
| What is a "reference" system? A ‘Reference’ system has nothing to do with being the “best”, it states a system you are familiar with. A lot of manufacturers put ‘reference’ in the name of the product to try to boost sales. Just like ‘Signature’, what does that mean in referenc... | |
| Listening Room or Components or my ears? IMO, if you are having this problem with a Rogue magnum 3, which is very warm sounding (I had 1 for years), it’s both your speakers and the denon. You have no dac and the denon isn’t any good. The focals are also on the cool side of things. start... | |
| Pairing streamer I’ve been using ripped music since 2005. Remember amarra, pure music, audirvana from the mid 2000’s. I sold my $3000 Classe cdp in 2007/2008 and never used a cdp since. I do have a sacd player that’s 20 years old and it doesn’t get used much for 1... | |
| Pairing streamer If your router is using a wireless connection, then you better be using a wifi 6e or newer mesh router so you can use the 2.5Gbps backhaul instead of the normal router wireless speed which can be anywhere from dismal to just ok | |
| Pairing streamer @buellrider97 - if you need a new lan setup, remember that your isp provider or the geek squad don’t know how to do internal lans, get a new mesh network. | |
| Pairing streamer buellrider97 - your network has to have 1 main router that connects to your isp modem that sets up your wifi ssid (you only need 1), port forwarding, and other parameters and then your 2nd and more routers are setup as a wired or wireless bridge n... | |
| Pairing streamer Ok, people don’t know how networks work. Frequencies, 2.4 or 5 ghz has no bearing on connectivity to a node. The number of routers you have doesn’t have any bearing on connectivity. I have 4 mesh network routers that use both wired and their 6e pr... | |
| Pairing streamer If your streamer is not connected to your internal network, nothing will work. Check your router connected devices to see if it’s on the LAN. I don’t know what the device will be called on the device list on the router but you should know what ip ... | |
| Im going to regret my cable question You ask 50 people what is the best XXX component and you will get 60 different answers. It doesn’t matter what kind of music you listen too. Do you want to change cables if you play jazz after just playing rock? Getting many different responses, ... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening You can say the same process has occurred for decades with cds, cassette tapes, r2r, and 8 track. You think it’s all rosy doing the vinyl thing, far from it. Why didn’t you add to your ritual: the cleaning process? Demagnetizing process? The cartr... | |
| Most recent concert We have the luxury to see 4 different concerts every night for free, each of the groups normally play at Disneyland/seaworld or over all the attraction centers around the Orlando area. We also have multiple concert houses that bring in the likes o... | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... Room 1st which includes dimensions and treatments. system synergy 2nd - from cables to matching amp to speakers. 3rd is speakers sized for the room. You don’t want small monitors in a 30’ room and you don’t want large Wilson’s in a 10x10’ room. ... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? Benchmark dacs are terrible sounding, these make dogs go wild with their highly and I mean over the top analytical sound. I also had the Audio Resesrch Dac 1 way back which would sound pretty bad these days. When traveling for work 14 years ago, I... | |
| Tampa Audio Show 2025 For home systems, I agree. For hotel rooms, yes and no. There were a half dozen rooms that sounded excellent. These rooms had some of the largest speakers at the show. A couple systems cost close to $2M. These large speakers had some of the bigger... |