rbstehno
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| Revel Performa F228 Be speaker... thoughts? I like the revel line of speakers. The 228’s are very nice but I preferred the Salon and Studio 2’s. When auditioning speakers a few years back, I ended up buying the larger Usher speakers instead of the Salon 2’s. I prefer the DMD Diamond tweeter... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? Again, somebody doesn't know what they are talking about in regards to RTR. RTR has a 3-3/4 speed not 3.5. BTW: I've owned a few 10" RTR 15ips decks and RTR sounds great at 15ips, ok at 7.5, and terrible at 3-3/4 and 1-7/8. Too hard to get tapes a... | |
| Need a DAC Recommendation. Save your money and get a used ps audio DS jr dac, it will blow these mentioned dacs away in sq and in features. For example: do the other dacs above have an Ethernet connection? Fpga based? I2s input? (I2s and Ethernet are the best inputs to use ... | |
| PS auido Direct stream Dac IMO, the PS Audio DS jr dac surpasses most of the dacs listed on this thread. You get around 80% of the SQ of the DS sr dac for 1/2 the money. I owned 1 for 2 years and moved up to the DS sr. A word of caution when people are negative about this d... | |
| Bookshelf/Small Speakers I used to have many pairs of totem speakers: model 1’s, arro, and a couple pairs of mani 2’s. I used a Rel sub with the model 1’s. The mani’s are far better than the model 1’s but you need a very good powerful amp, even the model 1’s need a good a... | |
| Seeking advice on power conditioners/regenerators If you size the ps audio regenerator right it will improve your amps too. Conditioners are notorious for limiting amp sq and if you get too small of a regenerator you will be doing the same thing. Ps audio had an in-home trial policy so instead of... | |
| Did I damage my speakers? You just put new amp in, can you put the old amp back in to see if the distortion goes away? Eliminate the last change 1st | |
| Millercarbon's Mega Moab Mod Meander There is no way you can claim your Tekton speakers are equivalent to a Porsche in status or quality, you either don’t know Porsche cars or you don’t know audio, or both. What you are trying to do is to take a Corolla equivalent speaker and make it... | |
| Best Digital Interface Usb is a flawed interface. People try to add many tweaks/accessories to try to get it to sound good. Moved from USB to Ethernet and i2s. | |
| Insuring Your Vinyl Collection and Equipment I was in a fire and everything burned up. Just because your belongings were insured for X $$$, it doesn’t mean squat on what you might get from the insurance company. To issue a claim against that insured value, you have to specify how many forks ... | |
| 6.5 vs 8 vs 10 woofer I like many different kinds of woofer setups in speakers: multiple smaller drivers in the Revel Salon/Studio II and the Raidho’s, multiple larger drivers like in the Wilson’s, and right now using the 11” single Eaton driver in my Usher floorstandi... | |
| My conclusion: mid level $$ analog vs digital I sold a $15k turntable setup and all my vinyl because getting a very good dac surpasses a good analog setup. I spent $7k on a dac and it sounds better than my analog setup. If you go on a budget, its going to be hard to get the best sound in eith... | |
| 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... |