rbstehno
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| Who is Roon? A sham? When you see a worthless reply like this, you ignore ignore any replies from this poster in future threads because he doesn’t know what he is talking about. Like others in this thread, I got rid of my $3500 Classe cd player in 2006 - 2009... | |
| Setting up stereo Rel subwoofers…. In home theater setups, I placed the subs near the corners for maximum gain/bass. For audio, I placed the subs out into the room, once behind the speakers, the other times on the outside of the main speakers. I never wanted to actually hear big ba... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT People don’t get i2s, probably they don’t want to spend the money for better equipment that has this interface. People claim they worry about noise, clocking, etc, and you would be right if you are using usb. The old days I used usb just like 99% ... | |
| Streamer output options I never use usb. Spdif has restrictions on what you can send thru it. If you are paying hires music, say dsd128 or dsd256, you are out of luck. Also, you are restricted to 192/24 files. If you are only using a cd player, this wouldn’t matter. I h... | |
| Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong? I tried this 20 years ago at a dave Mathew’s concert in the rose garden. We had a concrete wall behind us and when I cupped my ears, the sound cleaned up drastically because I wasn’t hearing the sound bounce off the concrete wall. | |
| Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy When I get my Stereophile issue in the mail, I look at the conclusion of each piece reviewed and 99.999% of the time the piece they are reviewing is the best they have ever heard. Sometimes, in parts of the review they will have a few negatives bu... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design I’ve owned many 2-way monitors (totem model 1’s, totem mani II’s, totem arro’s, usher mini dancer II’s, to name a few) and they all had their drawbacks. Every one of them I used a pair of subwoofers (Rel) and there were drawbacks to this too, Rel ... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles Silver cables? Never!!! Like somebody scratching a blackboard with their nails. | |
| Streamer Recommendations I had the Auralic Aries years ago. I preferred the Aries to the Lumin and aurender unit at the time. Lightning DS and the Lumin software was used for the Aries. The major drawback in using the Ari’s was the limitations of its outputs. I used usb t... | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? Decooney- this is why I mentioned to sell everything he has now and get the pair of Kef LS60 speakers that have the amps/dac/preamp all built in and they sound terrific. All you would have in the room is a pair of speakers. | |
| Where to Place Network Switch Get a switch that doesn’t use a walwart. I go from the router to a more enterprise switch that doesn’t use a walwart to clean up the sound before the streamer, then use the best Ethernet cable you can afford between these 2 devices. | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? It sure what he wants. Good integrated amp can be over 100lbs, cheap units 10lbs. Does your buddy want to save money since he is retiring? Because there are ways to make things simple without sacrificing to less than optimal sound quality. Her... | |
| Black Sabbath and Jazz fans? We played many of the Black Sabbath songs in the heavy metal groups I was in in the 70’s. Still listen to then every few years. I grew up on the heavy metal bands/groups of the 70’s and 80’s, but for the past 4 decades, I’ve been listening to smoo... | |
| Streamer apps critical Software developers don’t gravitate to gui interfaces? Huh? Who writes this stuff but developers? I started as a developer in the mid 70’s and developers throughout the decades wrote user friendly interfaces for their users/clients, even if it was... | |
| Why I Sold My Aurender N200 Try Audirvana. If you don't have Roon, then you won't mind its interface and its getting better with every release.. It's the software that makes a difference in sq. When I had the Auralic, I went back and forth using Lightning DS (Auralics soft... |