rbstehno
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| Cheap/expensive or expensive/cheap? Auxinput-a 10k system isn’t reaching the point of diminishing returns? Are you talking about $10k worth of cables? I hope so because a $10k system can still be classified as a starter system or maybe getting into The midfi range, depending on what... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) The 1st thing that I was going to say about your list of speakers is you must really like cool and analytical sounding speakers. I would be able to listen to any of these for a few minutes max.A couple of suggestions would be the Usher mini dancer... | |
| Been away for a while, need some help why do you think you need a dedicated streamer? I got rid of my Auralic Aries (which I thought was the best at that time) years ago along with my attached USB dac. Use a Mac or raspberry to run Roon and get a network attached dac, which is the mos... | |
| speakers for a large room Used: revel salon2 or Usher be-20’s | |
| DAC Measurements vs Actual Experience If you want a shrill/way too analytical/fatigue sounding dac, the benchmark is your dac. I would walk into a room at an audio show and know if it was a benchmark dac, I could only stand listening for a couple minutes before we had to leave.If you ... | |
| Educate me on music streamers, please. I use the bridge II with my ps audio ds sr dac. Usb is flawed, use either Ethernet or i2s to a dac for best sound. Using Ethernet, your dac becomes an endpoint.You also don’t need a server/streamer in your audio room, keep the server in a differen... | |
| A challenge to the "measurement" camp The guy in the video is a clown. I have watched a couple of his videos (mainly because posters have passed them along) and they are painful to watch. If he can't hear, then he needs to take up another line of work | |
| Will a $700 turntable outperform a CD player? I sold my $14k turntable/arm/cartridge because my $7500 dac surpassed the sound of analog pretty easy. A good MQA or DSD cut surpassed vinyl.I had a very good collection of albums too but most of the new jazz I liked was never produced on vinyl an... | |
| Speaker placement and dB differences why not move your listening chair to make the distance equal from each speaker and take another snapshot? | |
| Anyone remember the lateral tracking Bang and Olufsen record player from the 80’s?? The B&O players back then were cool to look at but had a bad reputation for reliability. I knew 2 friends with them and they got an extra identical player later on just for parts. The other bad thing about B&O tables were the restriction o... | |
| Hard disk for Music Server If you are worried about data recovery or losing a disk on a raid 5 system, then use raid 6 which has 2 parity drives so you can actually lose 2 drives and still keep working. For casual use around the home for sharing music and video files, an ex... | |
| Hard disk for Music Server I spent over 42 years in IT with over 30 years in the performance end of things including storage systems costing over million dollars (EMC storage), the last 10 years actually working for a solid state/hard disk manufacturer. You always need a ba... | |
| newbie seeks help with system design Sonus is not that good. If you want a nice entry streamer, look for a used Auralic Aries Mini.I have had that B&O turntable decades ago and the cartridge is the weakest part. IMO, if you have to rebuild the cartridge, then I wouldn’t do it bec... | |
| Hard disk for Music Server If you get 3 hard drives of 4G capacity, are you going to create a RAID 0 array to get your 10+G of space?I worked for a hard drive manufacturer for many years and for music, it really doesn’t matter what type of drive you get. For music, you won’... | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? Stupid questions for both the audio and Porsche products. When the Cayenne 1st came out, most Porsche owners thought this way, that was 15 or more years ago. No Porsche owner feels that way now. Same goes for analog vs. digital. |