rbstehno
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| Which new amp to get? I sold my $11,000 pair of Classe monoblocks and got the ps audio bhk250. Great amp. Try it with the default tubes and then get an updated pair so you can use the default tubes as backup. The bhk 250 has a lot going for it: quality parts, 4 speaker... | |
| PS Audio Directstream Junior Owner - Still beneficial to buy a separate server/streamer? Dead quiet. I have a 1G internal network using a switch. I also use a cat 7 cable to the bridge II. I also stream Tidal MQA over a 1G fiber network and fiber delivers a dead quiet network, much quieter than using copper | |
| PS Audio Directstream Junior Owner - Still beneficial to buy a separate server/streamer? I have multiple Terabytes of music ripped on my Mac server running Roon and quite a few are DSD. For example, the Norah Jones album is in dsf dsd64 format according to Roon. I also stream Tidal MQA songs which I really like that format. | |
| PS Audio Directstream Junior Owner - Still beneficial to buy a separate server/streamer? Been there done that and more. I also used minimserver for the Auralic and before that pure music and then audirvana 2+. I would take Roon/bridge 2/Ethernet any day. USB sucks as an interface and most dacs favor usb | |
| PS Audio Directstream Junior Owner - Still beneficial to buy a separate server/streamer? I went the opposite way, from Auralic to bridge II and Roon. DS Lightning was better than most (I actually used the LUMIN software with the Auralic, it sounded better) but Roon sounds and operates better. | |
| Our Responsibility What is snake oil? Who gives the right of 1 person to call something snake oil? For example: who gives somebody the right to call cables snake oil? How about power conditioners? How about room acoustic pieces? Who qualifies as an expert to label a... | |
| Best DAC to go with Aurender N100H? I’m not surprised that audiotroy recommended a Lumin, he is a dealer for them. A little slanted recommendation in my opinion.As for the comment, an aurender will sound good with any dac, bs! A source component will only sound as good as the weakes... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste bdp24 - give us a break with your flawed reasoning.USB technology is inferior and I'm glad I went away with USB a couple of years ago, SQ jumped up. Also, you should not have a pc/Mac/music server in your audio room. The better route is to use eth... | |
| MC462 enough to handle Revel Salon 2’s? It should. I demoed my Totem Mani ii’s which is an inefficient speaker with a wide range of mcintosh amps and the best sounding came out of the 1k Mac monoblocks. I could has easily lived with the smaller amps, but the 1k’s were spectacular with t... | |
| Audirvana Plus vs Roon - High Sound Quality at Lower Cost? I got rid of A+ a couple of years ago for 2 main reasons:the lack of a nice GUI The necessity of placing the Mac in the audio room and using usb to the dacwhen I switched, Roon was superior in sq and of course the GUI. I have heard rumblings that ... | |
| Room improvement If your room sounds like crap with nothing in it, slap echo, hollow sounding, overdamped, reverberations, etc., why would you think an audio system will fix all of these issues. A good room will allow a good speaker to sound great whereas a bad ro... | |
| What brands tend to have the worst resale value? This is a big reason I went with the ps audio FPGA based dac. I get free upgrades every 6 months whereas most other dacs become more out of date, plus the ps audio dac is very very good. Even manufacturers that build components with individual boa... | |
| Wilson Sophia vs Usher Mini Dancer II The mini dancer ii’s are a very good speaker for its size and price. The problem with the md ii’s is the bass response. There is a lot of bass, it took me days/weeks to get them positioned correctly in my 27’x16’x12’ dedicated room. Was driving th... | |
| Speakers better than Revel Salon 2 I agree with the Usher’s. I bought the Usher x-towers a year ago after auditioning the Revel Salon 2’s. I also like the Usher BE10’s and BE 20’s.i think the Salon 2’s are a great speaker too.Besides the Usher or revel’s, I like the $100k Raidho’s. | |
| 2000-2500 USD budget for an integrated amplifier. Do amplifiers sound the same? :) Except for the older klipsch models, you should team up your speakers with either tubes or a neutral or warm sounding SS amp. For tubes, the Rogue Cronus magnum II with the kt120 tubes is 1 very nice amp for < $2000 used. For neutral SS, the He... |