rbstehno
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| Covering a TV behind your speakers? You don’t want anything reflective in the middle of your speakers. Glass, tv, table, are the worst but even a high audio rack isn’t good | |
| 10K system I’m glad you qualified that your system doesn’t have any low end because benchmark products tend to be More cool/analytical sounding which other products can be more neutral or more warm. The op needs to specify what type of sound he prefers: neut... | |
| How do you share the sweet spot? There are many speakers that give you a wide soundstage. IMO, a lot of this has to do with speaker placement and room treatments too. You can take a Revel Salon2 and put it in a bad room and you will get bad sound. Similar to what you hear at audi... | |
| is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl Not all vinyl sounds good! Not all digital sounds good. It depends on a lot of things, namely more $$$ for analog equipment before it starts sounding really good. A good phono preamp is going to cost you thousands, cartridge thousands, tonearm tho... | |
| In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment Go back several years and you’ll see $200k speakers, $100k amps being reviewed every month, nothing has changed because of this virus. All the expensive audio products haven’t disappeared, you can still buy them, just like you can buy $1M cars, $4... | |
| In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment I would rather read about a $30k piece than a $500 piece. Look at the car mags, a new manufacturer is selling his new car creation For $2.5M, only 100 will be built. Every car mag has Porsche’s for $100k to $300k, Ferrari’s and Mclaren’s for hundr... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? Integrated amps are almost always built on compromises. When a name brand comes out with an integrated, reviewers claim the integrated is a combination of this amp and this preamp and possible a dac and phono that currently exist in their separate... | |
| Daily forum chats I get 1 email at least daily, sometimes 2 a day, I think those are summaries | |
| Is room treatment a science? It is a science and it’s not all about absorption. If you have corners, if you have 1st reflection points, then you will need treatments. If you have bass issues, after you have tried positioning the speakers with no cure, your corner absorption p... | |
| Suggestions for $2k budget There can be 100 different brands and models to look at. Everybody has an opinion. You should go demo some speakers at hifi stores, or at shows and get a feel for what you like. Each brand has their own sound. If you like a certain brand that you ... | |
| Dedicated 20 amp circuit - Electrician laughed! I wouldn’t listen to somebody that didn’t know what he was talking about. For 1, did he check to see how many amps you were drawing with everything running on that circuit? Of course not!Was he concerned about eliminating any noise on the line fro... | |
| Really need help choosing audio streamer !!! Save your money, move up to the ps audio ds jr or DS sr dac and you won’t need a 3rd party streamer, and you will have a much better dac too.If you get 1 of these dacs and get Roon (which has by far the best UI), you can run Roon server on your ex... | |
| What would you do if items from Ebay had beenlost? I always ship buyer signature required on delivery and anything expensive shipped to me I have to sign for it. A couple of people tried to issue a claim that they didn’t receive the package But when I sent them the signature copy, they recanted th... | |
| Yet another Integrated vs Separates advice post Going from the h100/h200 to the h300/h360 or even the h390 is not “just” a sideways move, it’s a night and day difference especially if you need the extra power, or the dac. If you can get a h300 for around $2000 or a h360 for around $2500, you wo... | |
| Another streaming newbie Chuckccs- your better dacs have a network interface or i2s. Any computer/3rd party streamer with attached disks will be noisy plus most users with computers/streamers in the audio room use usb which is a flawed interface, even when you tweak it ou... |