rbstehno
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| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? This is where I go bonkers, is when people (I’m being nice) call things snake oil or call people idiots if a cable sounds different. In their view, nothing can sound different if it’s a cable. Ask these same people about speaker footers, room trea... | |
| 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... | |
| Stereo Times review on the Tekton Design Encore Monitor These are monitors? Why would anybody claim these are monitors? There are so many true monitors that have better midrange and tweeter setups like all the speakers using AMT units, for example all the borreson, raidho, ps audio, and others. If you... | |
| Streamer, no DAC please? The better streamers don’t have a dac | |
| «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... |