rbstehno
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| Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy When I get my Stereophile issue in the mail, I look at the conclusion of each piece reviewed and 99.999% of the time the piece they are reviewing is the best they have ever heard. Sometimes, in parts of the review they will have a few negatives bu... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design I’ve owned many 2-way monitors (totem model 1’s, totem mani II’s, totem arro’s, usher mini dancer II’s, to name a few) and they all had their drawbacks. Every one of them I used a pair of subwoofers (Rel) and there were drawbacks to this too, Rel ... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles Silver cables? Never!!! Like somebody scratching a blackboard with their nails. | |
| Streamer Recommendations I had the Auralic Aries years ago. I preferred the Aries to the Lumin and aurender unit at the time. Lightning DS and the Lumin software was used for the Aries. The major drawback in using the Ari’s was the limitations of its outputs. I used usb t... | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? Decooney- this is why I mentioned to sell everything he has now and get the pair of Kef LS60 speakers that have the amps/dac/preamp all built in and they sound terrific. All you would have in the room is a pair of speakers. | |
| Where to Place Network Switch Get a switch that doesn’t use a walwart. I go from the router to a more enterprise switch that doesn’t use a walwart to clean up the sound before the streamer, then use the best Ethernet cable you can afford between these 2 devices. | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? It sure what he wants. Good integrated amp can be over 100lbs, cheap units 10lbs. Does your buddy want to save money since he is retiring? Because there are ways to make things simple without sacrificing to less than optimal sound quality. Her... | |
| Black Sabbath and Jazz fans? We played many of the Black Sabbath songs in the heavy metal groups I was in in the 70’s. Still listen to then every few years. I grew up on the heavy metal bands/groups of the 70’s and 80’s, but for the past 4 decades, I’ve been listening to smoo... | |
| Streamer apps critical Software developers don’t gravitate to gui interfaces? Huh? Who writes this stuff but developers? I started as a developer in the mid 70’s and developers throughout the decades wrote user friendly interfaces for their users/clients, even if it was... | |
| Why I Sold My Aurender N200 Try Audirvana. If you don't have Roon, then you won't mind its interface and its getting better with every release.. It's the software that makes a difference in sq. When I had the Auralic, I went back and forth using Lightning DS (Auralics soft... | |
| Why I Sold My Aurender N200 Just don’t buy aurender in the 1st place, I didn’t, I bought an Auralic instead for both sq and especially the Lightning DS software. I sold the Auralic because usb sucks and went with a great sounding dac with an Ethernet card in it, much better ... | |
| Help for me, money for you. Look at Bryston for connectivity issues. Not all manufacturers devices are truly Roon ready. Force a rescan of your Roon library. Go to settings-storage-click onl the 3 dots next to your storage location and force a rescan. Playlist, if it does... | |
| Streamer Recommendations When I got an external streamer 8 years ago (instead of using Pure Music and Audirvana), I auditioned Auralic, Aurender, and Lumin, and bought the Auralic Aries with the Lightning DS software. SQ was better and the Lightning DS software was far su... | |
| Totem Element Metal Version 2 Loudspeaker The new Totem speakers punch way above their size, same as Raidho and Borreson. Not sure if these Totem speakers are worth $18k. I’ve had many Totem speakers in the past and I thought the Mani 2’s that I had sounded better than the Winds, this was... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? I had a top of the line Classe cd player that was rated very high back then plus 1 of the earlier Sony sacd players back in the early 2000’s. Back then, it was proven that ripped cds sounded better than thru a cd player. I thought so too and sold... |