rbstehno
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| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear LP’s are not worthless. I’m in the process of selling all of my albums and I have averaged around $10 an album, I have sold 100 so far. All of my sales have been thru Facebook marketplace and local online outlets | |
| Small living room speaker options.. Totem Arro? 213runnin- you know nothing about totem speakers. The model 1’s still blow away many of its competitors. Same for the Forest and Hawks. I’ve had many totem speakers in the past and for the $$$ they are very good. They are inefficient and need goo... | |
| How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing! The Cronus is a nice sounding amp. I had the same amp with the kt-120 tubes and the only thing I did was to replace the preamp tubes, change to a 4 ohm load, and got a nice power cord, which makes a big difference in any system above the Best Buy ... | |
| Lumin X1 latest Review like we have been saying Typical sales pitch. Have you ever heard this guy recommended d something that he doesn’t sell | |
| Watts and power I don’t care about all the mumbo jumbo on how things are calculated just like I don’t care about how cubic inches relates to horsepower. IME, quality SS amps that doubles its power from 8 ohms down to 2 have been better sounding amps to me. Tube a... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming It has been proven over a decade ago that a cd will sound better played ripped from a hard drive than from a CD player. The most critical piece of the digital chain is the dac, and not all dac inputs are created equal.Every music server you buy is... | |
| Point of diminishing return for a DAC You can do much better by spending more than $2500 for a dac. $2500 buys you a mid-fi dac. The best dacs are of the FPGA type which costs more and you get upgrades that improve the SQ 1 or 2 times a year for free. Also, the better dacs have Ethern... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming Don’t be fooled, the Bluesound Node 2i is an entry level piece, decent to get started with or for background music. If you decide you want a very good setup, be prepared to sink some $$$ into it. You don’t need a dedicated streamer and I prefer no... | |
| At what price point do I run into diminishing returns on an MC Cartridge? Normantaylor-creating a thread like this will get you a mix of people that don’t want to spend any amount of money on audio pieces like cables and cartridges or people that think their $100 piece is a giant killer.Money isn’t necessarily the criti... | |
| Another Analog v. Digital Thread? Not Really IMO, If you want vinyl to sound better than a good digital setup (say comparing to a $7-$8k dac), you need to spend many times that in a vinyl setup to get better sound. The Oppo is not a good digital player so it doesn’t surprise me somebody pref... | |
| A note from Magnepan about the "30.7 for Condos" tour I sure hope the condo version is better than it’s bigger brother. Went to 1 of their stops and they sounded terrible. I have friends that attended multiple stops and they sounded terrible at those stops. | |
| Cable septic Go to other forums and there are fanatics against anybody that can hear a difference in cables. They claim its a waste of money, only fools would buy them, on and on, but when you look at their systems, they aren't using the real cheap cables that... | |
| Cable septic It is so funny to hear people say that cables don’t matter much but you see them using $50 or higher priced cables and not using the .10 cheap cables that are found in the cheaper equipment boxes. If anybody makes a statement that they can’t hear ... | |
| Grimm findings on streaming audio +1 for tidal sounding better especially with MQA.There is no roughness or thinner soundstage with MQA and I would say it has just the opposite: neutral to a warmer sound, more dynamic: highs and lows and a broader soundstage. The benefits of strea... | |
| The Music Room - Boulder Colorado I also have done a few buy/trade deals with TMR and each have gone smooth. It might take them a day to inspect the trade you sent them and your refund is sent to you the next day. They also sent me the new gear so I can still use my gear while my ... |