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| Problems with Paypal payment? PayPal screws over the seller if it comes down to an issue. I have the buyer pay for PP fees so that’s not an issue. I have been for years protecting myself so nothing is coming back. For example: signature on delivery. There have been a couple of... | |
| Should I keep the Turntable or sell it? A couple of things: there is no “high end” rega anything. They make a nice product fairly cheap. For cheap cartridges, the rega will be ok, but if you want to move up the chain to a much batter cartridge, your tonearm will be critical, and you won... | |
| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? Mzkmxcv765 has indicated that to his ears, the Belden cable is the best. I have compared belden cables to other brands and belden has been on the bottom of my list. Belden is usually priced on the low side, so if $$$ are a big concern, by all me... | |
| 'Unlistenable' early digital recordings? A sh$tty recording is going to produce sh$tty sound. A good recording with a crappy dac and you will get crappy sound. Put a good quality power cord or interconnect on a crappy dac is like putting lipstick on a pig. A good dac will benefit from go... | |
| What is the least compressed signal? Cassettes had the worst DR of any source at the time. The main reasons were its slow speeds and tape width. I think it was the 70’s when I had the top of the line Akai cassette deck with servo buttons and glass heads which compared favorable to ot... | |
| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? mzkmxcv - 2 flaws in your logic/posts: you can’t afford an expensive cable so you will never be able to buy 1 and compare it to your $30 cable, so you have to bad mouth a product you can’t afford or put down people who can afford 1. 2nd- you state... | |
| Ordered my new amp today... been a long road! You Should have kept the McIntosh gear. | |
| An Audiophile is Anyone Who Loves Audio Regardless of Monetary Status. Agree? Vinny- sorry, but your system probably sounds what a $2-$4k system should sound like. Your system does not or will not compete with a $10k or higher system, let alone a $100k system. Instead of trying to convince us of the impossible, you should s... | |
| Computer to DAC Streamer Audiotroy-ssd’s sound better than a disk drive? Mac’s corrupt data? Computers screw up digital waveforms? Do you make this stuff up? Auralic streamers are junk?Somebody at an audio show tried to tell me they only use a certain hard drive because ... | |
| Computer to DAC Streamer Audiotroy-are you saying that by using my Mac vs using a Linux dedicated music server that my Mac will corrupt data packets? Far from it. I’ve been in the IT industry for over 40 years and the cheapest computer will not corrupt data packets unless... | |
| Computer to DAC Streamer Imo, the worst thing to have is a streamer/computer in your audio room, and equally bad is using usb connection to a dac. Got rid of that setup a while back. Every streamer out there is a computer, don’t let anyone fool you. Sure, some USB ports o... | |
| Recommnedation for the BEST SOUNDING integrated amp up to $3500 If you like tubes, the Rogue Cronus magnum 2 or 3 is very good, I owned 1. If you like solid state, the Hegel H300/H360 is hard to beat. I went from the Rogue to the Hegel to better control the bass. | |
| Speaker upgrade question - Wilson vs Focal mepstein10 - The BE10's will blow away the focals and YYettes. No need for subs with the BE10's. I bought a pair of the Usher X-Towers a few months back. It has a little bit bigger midrange than the BE10 and they are 2 piece speakers so you can sw... | |
| Speaker upgrade question - Wilson vs Focal I disagree. I haven’t heard a Focal speaker that I could listen to for any length of time that didn’t cost $40k or higher (utopia series). Of course I haven’t heard all of the Focal speakers but the non-utopia focal speakers that I have listened t... | |
| Speaker upgrade question - Wilson vs Focal If you like your Usher’s, I’m surprised you wouldn’t want to go with the Usher BE10’s or BE20’s. I had the Usher Mini Dancer II’s with the DMD tweeter and I listened to many speakers when I wanted to upgrade. The Focal’s were to thin sounding unti... |