rbstehno
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| Benchmark DAC Thoughts If you have a ps audio preamp, why wouldn’t you go for the ps audio DS jr or DS sr dac? These dacs are far superior to the benchmarks in sq, Ethernet and i2s capability, and fpga based. I had the DS jr for a couple of years and then went to the DS... | |
| What say you? Amazing posts, and not in a good way. Who decides or who comes up with a the magic formula of value/percentage of cable costs to determine if somebody overspent? It’s crazy for MC to spend $10k on cables for the caliber of his system, but it’s no... | |
| Does anybody make... You can get a multi-speaker switcher with volume controls for each channel | |
| Weakest digital link: DAC - Streamer - Server? These are the worst things you can do when setting up a digital playback system: use usb into a dac and have a server in the same room as your audio equipment. Most of your better dacs use Ethernet and i2s. Using Ethernet, you can put your server... | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference been streaming (ripped music and/or Tidal) for a dozen years. When I moved from a Audirvana/Mac mini setup to a dedicated streamer/server, the Auralic Aries sounded better than the aurrender units and the DS Lightning software was also much better... | |
| Not Sure If This Is OK Here, But Here Goes As a seller, you are not in a favorable position with PayPal. As a buyer you have more control and easier to get your money back. I have sold many items internationally and almost all of them, if you go thru customs, you lose any ability to track... | |
| Different R2R DACs I will only buy a fpga based dac that also includes Ethernet and i2s inputs. I don't us usb for a number of reasons. | |
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| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? If you are using usb to the dac, you will never get the best performance. All music servers are computers usually with a proprietary OS which is a bad approach for support. Some vendors will also tell you that certain hard drives or ssd/nvme devi... | |
| Capital Audiofest, save thyself! What makes people think that the music they bring will be widely accepted or better than the music the vendor provides? I have walked out of rooms because I couldn’t stand someone’s music they played.It used to be that there were a short list of s... | |
| Have you moved away from full range to standmount speakers + subs? blkwrxwgn - you must be new to ago, MC does this sort of thing many times a day. He comes to the rescue of any post regarding his speaker brand (I'm not going to mention it because it will wake him) to state how arrogant or ill informed the poster... | |
| Better than Usher Dancer Mini-X DMD? Keep the mini-x’s, better than the Focal or dynaudio mentioned above IMO. You can’t compare the mini-x to the 718’s from the past unless the 718’s had the DMD tweeter which is a game changer. I have and still own many Usher speakers, the later 1’s... | |
| Drummers! Which amps do you use for best Timing & Dynamics? As a drummer, what's important for me is the highs (tweeter) and how fast the decay is in the bass. I remember in 1978 when purchasing my 1st hifi system, I would go in with albums that I liked to show off the drum sound and listened for cymbal so... | |
| Streamer vs. new mac mini for 2 channel system you are looking at this the wrong way. Its not the Mac that is the issue (in over a dozen years running over multiple Macs, never have had any crashing/issues), its USB. If you look at the different threads about using USB, you will see hundreds i... | |
| Budget Hunter: Spendor S8e vs Totem Hawk Totem if you like a more dynamic speaker. Totems are not edgy or bright sounding. I have owned and listened to British speakers and all are too dark for me except B&W, they are way to bright for me. |