rbstehno
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| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» Noromance-no wonder you don’t like digital, ou have the worst digital sources you can get | |
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» NoRomance - I got rid of my analog stuff years ago. I had the hanss t60/vpi 3D arm/soundstring cartridge/mcintosh c49 and the Otari mx5050. When my digital setup sounded better, I sold all of this plus 500 vinyl albums. If your digital doesn’t s... | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? I have kids in their 30’s and early 40’s and they have been around my higher priced audio products during that time. They use Beats and Apple AirPod pros, but they drive nice cars. Audio equipment is not ‘cool’ like sports cars for the younger an... | |
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» It’s funny you don’t hear Porsche, Lamborghini and Ferrari making the same dire claims! The audiophile hobby only has the manufactures and audio magazines to blame for this demise of our hobby. Have you been to an audio show lately or read a late... | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" There was another post about Rooms today: There is no room that is acoustically correct without treatments. Rugs and drapes are not very good and could actually make your room to dead. You need a mix of absorption and diffusion. All corners will ... | |
| LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE ACOUSTICS OF MY LISTENING ROOM There is no room that is acoustically correct without treatments. Rugs and drapes are not very good and could actually make your room to dead. You need a mix of absorption and diffusion. All corners will accumulate bass, this can be wall corners, ... | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. I still own/have owned 1/2 of the speakers that somebody listed above. If you post you want opinions on a speaker, 100 people will reply with a 100 different recommendations. IMO, start going to audio shows like the Tampa Show this weekend and yo... | |
| "...and I don't take any advertiser money..." Everytime I get a new issue of an audio magazine, I look at the last paragraph and everyone of them has a glowing review of the piece, best sound ever, highly recommended, my system has never sounded better. Every issue, every month. I subscribe t... | |
| BS meter is pegged! Yyz-that’s old technology, some of us have talked about this for almost a decade. The converters might be better today compared to what they were many years ago. But, comparing fiber to the dac and the article that the OP wrote about are 2 differ... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? All integrateds are a compromise. That doesn’t mean they don’t sound good, there are quite a few that do sound good. I’ve owned many integrateds since the late 70’s, and have owned more separates during this same time. Why I say this, quite a few... | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? I got more in cables and sound treatments than $10k. I built a dedicated room within a room to get the correct ratio/dimensions and just this cost way north of $10k. Then you have to buy the appropriate equipment to fill the room. A 5 watt set amp... | |
| BS meter is pegged! Bipod72- what are bloated processes? What do you call eliminating extraneous processing that the OS does? I’m not talking about windows because that OS is junk running on old technology hardware. I’m talking about Linux which most streamers/server... | |
| Subs? Most audiophiles don’t us a sub because they are hard to integrate into a system where it adds to the sound without highlighting itself. subs are about bass, how are supposed to render the lowest octave? | |
| Subs? How many companies build a subwoofer that you can setup in an array where each individual sub is tuned different. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative”…..Part 1: I have a plan Go to many audio shows that you can. Tampa has 1 in a couple of weeks. I used to go to CES/the show/rmaf and others every year and now just the Tampa show. Most equipment you will be seeing will be way over your $8000 budget. Your goal is to see ... |