rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| Frail and Bedazzled It's all in the DAC. Get a cheap dac and you will have mediocre sq from digital. IMO, you have to spend many times more on a vinyl setup than a good dac for vinyl to compare with digital. Check out the vinyl reviewers like Fremer, comparing their ... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Why use a dedicated server? First, you have to ask yourself, why use usb input on the dac?Once you decide to use a network interface and not usb, then your requirements change. If you use a network interface on the dac, then you can use a OS X or ... | |
| Classe Audio products, past vs. now? I have owned many Classe pieces during the last 17 years: ca-200 amp, cp47.5 and cp60 preamps, their cdp10, a couple of their recently the ct-m300 monoblocks. Classe gear has a nice warm sound to them. The Classe monoblocks sounded very nice, and... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" IMO: if you think vinyl is better, then you don't have a good dac. Once you get a very good dac, then you will need a great sounding expensive turntable to compete with digital and then I still prefer digital. There's much more to consider than ju... | |
| Is Not Responding To An Offer Just Plain Rude? The OP is only telling part of the story. What happens if you are selling something and the potential buyer offers you 1/2 of what its worth? 40% off? Do you respond to requests like that? I don't. 10% off, sure I will respond, not sure if I will ... | |
| Tekton Electron SE MC’s comments along with the op’s impressions are way over the top. MC comment:”Fits in with everything else. Eric has done remarkable work producing so many exceptionally fine speakers filling out so many little market niches.” How many of those ... | |
| Music streamers I see some of these responses and some people just don’t understand what a streamer is. A streamer like the Aurender/Lumin/auralic are all computers. A lot of them run linux, who cares? 99% of users of these streamer servers can’t even spell linux... | |
| Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon? I Buy and sell mainly off us audio mart with very good luck. I liked the old agon for selling. | |
| REVEL performa3 f208 or TEKTON Moab MC - Your comment: "Reading through the comments its clear you either don’t know anything about Tekton Moabs or worse have been misled into believing a lot of the blather which in turn comes from people who don’t know anything about Tekton Moabs."... | |
| Speaker Audition Usher BE10, be20’s, or the newer series td10, td20’s. You will get their Diamond tweeter and the 11” Eaton woofer(s). I also have these larger usher speakers and they sound great | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? Bluesound is an entry level piece. If you don’t want to use Roon, and you want to spend little money, then get an Auralic mini with the DS lightning software. Outside of Roon, the DS lightning software is the best. The Auralic mini for $500 new so... | |
| Speaker cables Mid High end There are hundreds of very good cables out there and thousands of reviews from people indicating their likes and dislikes for each of them. I have purchased cables before at audio shows mainly because they were in a good sounding room, I have read... | |
| Buying a DAC when you can't try it first The dacs that soix recommended are entry level dacs and for a little bit more money can do better. Also, if you do get a quality dac, get 1 with mqa support, then compare qobuz to tidal masters with mqa. Tidal is so much better sounding with mqa m... | |
| Connecting a DAC directly to an amp? Since I got rid of my analog gear and only have digital sources, I got rid of a newer Mcintosh preamp and went directly from my ps audio ds dac into a ps audio bhk amp, actually the sq is better. Quiet with a lot of headroom. I have attenuation tu... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant 15........ If it’s a demo unit, it probably has already been broken in unless the dealer told you it wasn’t on the floor very long.If it’s that far off, call ps audio about your issue. It should be under warranty and they are very good at supporting their cu... |