rbstehno
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| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? sold my $3000 CD player over 12 years ago because ripped music and now streaming done right sounds better than cd and vinyl (sold all my vinyl equipment/albums over a year ago with no regrets. SACD is a different animal, but I haven't turned on my... | |
| Schumann Resonator Bhvf-mcarbon is looking for anything that would improve his system no matter if he needs 10 or 100 of these things. Honestly, I don’t blame him for trying, just look at what he has. In 1 of his rant threads, he stated that the more drinks he had, ... | |
| Help me tame my out of control bass Saying bass traps don’t work is false. Get the right traps for the frequencies you want to deal with. 2” traps won’t do squat for bass, I use asc 16” tube traps as well as gik monster bass traps which both work. As for adding many panels and curta... | |
| Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy I pretty much agree with the ocd video. A music streamer/server are computers: period. Most run proprietary operating systems but that doesn’t make them better, and personally, I wouldn’t want a 1 off operating system. These server vendors have so... | |
| Do different streamers really sound different when using an external DAC If I was using USB to the dac, then the pc/Mac/streamer could make a difference because some vendors try to make USB sound better. Since I don't use USB, then no. All a streamer server is is a proprietary computer, most of the time running linux, ... | |
| Would I benefit from a dedicated streamer? I use Roon on a dedicated Mac then going to a ps audio DS sr dac using Ethernet. I have used many software apps like audirvana and pure music on servers and then went to an Auralic Aries music server, all using usb to an external dac. I will never... | |
| A stupid question for which there's no sensible answer. 1) the room2) system synergy. 3) good quality components. Buy the best sounding components you can afford. | |
| Killer used integrated for <$500? Ps audio sprout 100. | |
| Craigslist Fraud No matter where you sell, you can get scammers. There is no guarantee that the buyer is legit if he is buying on agon, cl, Usam, ebay, or fb. I’ve had this same thing happen to me, the buyer wrote me a $20k check for a couple hundred $$$ sale. I c... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? I have ASC, GIK, Michael Greene, and acoustic field products in my room. I have anywhere from sub-bass absorbers to diffusers. Both GIK and acoustic field offer diy products and videos to build your pieces. I bought the 8 dvd set from acoustic fie... | |
| Storage Device Recommendations Taxing a hard drive with music file access? Not a chance. Music access performs very little stress to a hard drive. When I was working in the IT sector for over 40 years, I dealt with very large databases running on million dollar storage systems ... | |
| If you stream music from the internet, I can't recommend this more highly i agree with others on the steaming posts that the best way to stream music from tidal or Qobuz is to use a fiber internet network if you want dead quiet transmission. If you have to use any other cable, then you have to apply bandaids to get rid ... | |
| Looking for suggestions for a network capable DAC/Streamer Don’t know which ps audio dac you have, the ds sr or ds jr, but if you have the sr, why not look for a used jr? It is more money than what you want to spend but it will be much better than anything close to its price. I had the jr for 2 years befo... | |
| 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 ... |