rbstehno
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| The problem with streaming When somebody is into analog and they rant about how digital doesn’t sound as good as analog, it’s normally due to a weak digital setup and/or not listening to the best format in digital (redbook, dsd, MQA, hi-res). I stopped reading any review of... | |
| Tampa Audio Expo 2022 For the amount of money that most of these rooms had invested in their equipment that sounded pretty bad, 2 rooms for me stood out that weren't that expensive: the Black Ice room and the room with creek gear. This was the best sounding Creek gear ... | |
| Tampa Audio Expo 2022 This was my 1st Tampa audio expo and I agree with a couple of other people here that it didn't have the sound quality that other shows have had, especially for the price. For example, only a few years ago at RMAF, a pair of $6000 totems would have... | |
| Florida Audio Expo - Budget Room Best budget room for me was the Jolida room. IMO, this room sounded better than most of the other rooms from floors 3 on up except for a few like the creek/passion room and the Magico room. | |
| Inflation It’s not price gouging! I wish people could understand economics. The idiots in this WH don’t understand how businesses work. If you pay somebody 2x more flipping a hamburger, that hamburger is going to be maybe $2 now. Even a Walmart employee tol... | |
| Could this be true, or am I getting the run around.? Records causing the problem is BS! If you tried to get it fixed and they can’t or won’t, take it back to the dealer and either get another brand tt or get your money back. Project and music hall are cheap tt’s and they sound like it too. For a few... | |
| Need speaker recommendations. Revel m35/36/206/208 or the revel 226be/228be, usher mini dancer II, mini-x, totem model 1/one/hawk/forest | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? I agree. My system sounds much better going straight from the dac into the amp, and I had a great sounding preamp. My dac is fpga based with an attenuation control so I can get the best sound by using this control. | |
| I treated my room ! I’ve used ASC for over 20 years and I have some Michael Greene and GIK products too. I just added diffusion devices behind the speakers and behind the listening chair | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? Why would you demo a new speaker in a setup that you can’t match? If you can’t move the speakers closer to the wall, you should have demoed the speakers the same distance from the back wall as your room dictates. Also, an amp can have a big impac... | |
| $100K system build - % breakdown of spend How do you know if you spend that much money or buy anything different, it will sound better in your room? Your room isn’t ideal so I would caution any new purchases. You have to start with the room, a lousy room, you can’t expect much no matter w... | |
| Neil Young calls out Tidal Enough of neil young already! With all of his rants for years/decades, I hope he pulls more off the market. He was wrong about Spotify lately and the pono was a bust. I prefer tidal with MQA over the competition. | |
| Replace Apple TV YouTube sounds terrible. If you only watch YouTube or listen to low res online radio stations, save your money on on any streamer. There are ways to get video from your laptop to a tv and audio from your laptop to an external dac, no need for a s... | |
| the cart or the horse? I would suggest: a ps audio sprout 100 integrated to start with, get a pair of Revel M35 which are a smallish floorstanding speaker and get some decent cables. Use your streamer until you can afford a standalone dac/streamer like a used ps audio D... | |
| High End Intergraded comparisons, Marantz, McIntosh, Levinson, Luxman.... Have you ever heard a dealer recommend a product they didn’t carry? The marantz sound is nothing like the McIntosh sound. The marantz can’t compare to the better McIntosh integrateds, from today or from 20 years ago, nor can the marantz compare t... |