rbstehno
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| Speaker size and bass The other thing that you can do is biamp your speakers with an amp that had its own volume control. I did this many years ago when I had a smaller room. At the lower volumes, there was no bass, so I just adjusted the bass amps volume to play a lit... | |
| Lumin or Aurender When I compared streamers, Auralic sounded better than both the Lumin and Aurender, plus their DS Lightning software was far superior. For a while I used the Lumin software against the Auralic. This is when I used the streamer hooked up to the dac... | |
| Uptone EtherRegen If you want dead quiet streaming, go with a fiber network provider. If you have a copper internet provider, you can clean up the signal to your computer/streamer by using the Ethernet-to-fiber converter then the fiber-to-Ethernet converter for muc... | |
| Passive Bookshelf Speaker Selection You’re right about klipsh being bright and fatigue after a short while. IMO, B&W fall into this category too unless you have a warmer sounding amp. Also, don’t listen to some clown that says buy whatever and hand tune them. With speakers, you... | |
| Camp designations Sound stager | |
| It was 20 years ago today... My start date was around 20 years ago. Just looking back on my 1st sales on agon, early 2001 when the listing fee was $2. Bring back the good old days | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life 1st thing you need to do is bring out GIK or ASC (or someone similar) to your house to treat your room. If you have a terrible sounding room, no amount of money spent on quality gear will overcome a sh$tty sounding room.Go out and listen to friend... | |
| Your One Bullet Point Solution; Electrical Upgrade I have a whole house surge suppressor at the meter put in by the electric company. They maintain it, and provide insurance to every electrical device inside the house. Not only is my audio room protected, but my other audio systems in other rooms,... | |
| Tweaks that work? (yes very subjective topic) We all use cones under components or should be and every room should have the basic room treatments.After that, you can raise your cables off the floor, and put some dampers on top of each component. There are many cable elevators out there or you... | |
| How many NICE looking high end floor standing speaker are there at present Look at Usher, their Mini dancer 1 or 2’s, BE10, Or be-20 floorstanding speakers. Great looks with great sound quality | |
| Covering a TV behind your speakers? You don’t want anything reflective in the middle of your speakers. Glass, tv, table, are the worst but even a high audio rack isn’t good | |
| 10K system I’m glad you qualified that your system doesn’t have any low end because benchmark products tend to be More cool/analytical sounding which other products can be more neutral or more warm. The op needs to specify what type of sound he prefers: neut... | |
| How do you share the sweet spot? There are many speakers that give you a wide soundstage. IMO, a lot of this has to do with speaker placement and room treatments too. You can take a Revel Salon2 and put it in a bad room and you will get bad sound. Similar to what you hear at audi... | |
| is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl Not all vinyl sounds good! Not all digital sounds good. It depends on a lot of things, namely more $$$ for analog equipment before it starts sounding really good. A good phono preamp is going to cost you thousands, cartridge thousands, tonearm tho... | |
| In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment Go back several years and you’ll see $200k speakers, $100k amps being reviewed every month, nothing has changed because of this virus. All the expensive audio products haven’t disappeared, you can still buy them, just like you can buy $1M cars, $4... |