rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| CD sound quality: original pressings vs regular remaster vs MFSL, etc What matters most is the dac these days, not the transport. A very good dac today can make a lot of the old cds sound much better. Some remasters sound better than the original and some the other way around. Get the best dac you can afford and it ... | |
| Whats the popular brand, most musical, digital cable now? What format? You’re SQ is limited by using toslink or usb to the dac. Did that for over a dozen years and bought into the Usb tweaks, still compromised. Use i2s or Ethernet into a dac/network interface and get rid of all your usb and toslink stuff. | |
| Turntable Advice Needed Vpi scoutmaster or possibly vpi prime. For cheaper maybe the Marantz tt15s1 if you need a decent cartridge too. | |
| Fear of Streaming I’ve always had a turntable for 45 years. I sold my latest $14k turntable setup a couple months ago and now I’m in the process of selling hundreds of albums. With the current dacs and hires music both purchased and streamed, I thought it was time ... | |
| Night and day speaker connection I Tri-wire my ushers. I have a single speaker wire coming from the amp to the bass module. I then use a biwire speaker cable from another set of binding posts on the amp that hooks up the midrange and tweeter. My old setup was using the same singl... | |
| Considering Moving to an Integrated, Opinions Appreciated The dacs in the Hegels are pretty decent but not close to their standalone dacs or other quality dacs. I had the Hegel 100 then upgraded to the H300, never used its dac. (I have a new Mcintosh C47 preamp with a very good dac and I don't use that e... | |
| Considering Moving to an Integrated, Opinions Appreciated I had a small listening room 20 years ago (12x13) and IMO it’s a mistake to think you can go light in power just because it’s a small room. If you go with the H190, you won’t get any bass at lower volumes whereas the H360 has more power and you wi... | |
| Considering Moving to an Integrated, Opinions Appreciated A couple of options: if you want a tube integrated, check out the Rogue Cronus Magnum with kt120 tubes. I would look at the Hegel H300-H360 if you want a more neutral sounding amp with a dac built in. I’ve owned both the Rogue and Hegel. The Rogue... | |
| A visit to the (Audio) Doctor All salesmen are prejudice. No single audio dealer has everything that I want. For example, if you go to the AD for advice, would they actually tell you to go down the street to audition a pair of Revel’s or Wilson’s because that would fit tour ne... | |
| Center placed equipment stands After evaluating things, I decided on getting a low 2 shelf 18” high cabinet that is wide compared to putting a normal rack on the side. Since I wanted both right and left reflection point absorbers to be identical, I would have had to put the rac... | |
| Brave man, McGowan... Power cables can make a big difference. Any cable can make a difference. The difference might not always be an improvement or the difference might not be worth the extra $$$ you might have to pay. | |
| Qobuz Special Offer I have compared the catalogs of tidal and quboz and tidal has many more albums of the music I like. Another plus for tidal is MQA. Amazon might have more music than both tidal and qobuz combined, but Roon can’t access amazon and amazon doesn’t hav... | |
| Honest opinions on my two picks of loudspeakers I Would have picked the Revel’s over any JBL, Klipsch, or mc speaker. My friend is a JBL dealer and he had the $45k pair in his own house, not impressed for $45k. Revel’s are 1/2 the cost.I’ve heard the Revel’s in multiple show rooms with good ele... | |
| How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog? IMO, you need to spend 2-3x more on analog to get better sound than good digital. It will take more than $3000 to get a really good dac just like it will take much more than $10k to get good analog. Sure, you can get a $1k rega or music hall, and ... | |
| Is the buyer responsible to cover the cost of a return? I’ve had a couple of instances with buyers and when I told them that if the unit returned to me was the exact item (serial numbers matched for example), then I would refund their money. None of them came back after that.How do you know if he recei... |