rbstehno
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| A note from Magnepan about the "30.7 for Condos" tour I sure hope the condo version is better than it’s bigger brother. Went to 1 of their stops and they sounded terrible. I have friends that attended multiple stops and they sounded terrible at those stops. | |
| Cable septic Go to other forums and there are fanatics against anybody that can hear a difference in cables. They claim its a waste of money, only fools would buy them, on and on, but when you look at their systems, they aren't using the real cheap cables that... | |
| Cable septic It is so funny to hear people say that cables don’t matter much but you see them using $50 or higher priced cables and not using the .10 cheap cables that are found in the cheaper equipment boxes. If anybody makes a statement that they can’t hear ... | |
| Grimm findings on streaming audio +1 for tidal sounding better especially with MQA.There is no roughness or thinner soundstage with MQA and I would say it has just the opposite: neutral to a warmer sound, more dynamic: highs and lows and a broader soundstage. The benefits of strea... | |
| The Music Room - Boulder Colorado I also have done a few buy/trade deals with TMR and each have gone smooth. It might take them a day to inspect the trade you sent them and your refund is sent to you the next day. They also sent me the new gear so I can still use my gear while my ... | |
| CD sound quality: original pressings vs regular remaster vs MFSL, etc What matters most is the dac these days, not the transport. A very good dac today can make a lot of the old cds sound much better. Some remasters sound better than the original and some the other way around. Get the best dac you can afford and it ... | |
| Whats the popular brand, most musical, digital cable now? What format? You’re SQ is limited by using toslink or usb to the dac. Did that for over a dozen years and bought into the Usb tweaks, still compromised. Use i2s or Ethernet into a dac/network interface and get rid of all your usb and toslink stuff. | |
| Turntable Advice Needed Vpi scoutmaster or possibly vpi prime. For cheaper maybe the Marantz tt15s1 if you need a decent cartridge too. | |
| Fear of Streaming I’ve always had a turntable for 45 years. I sold my latest $14k turntable setup a couple months ago and now I’m in the process of selling hundreds of albums. With the current dacs and hires music both purchased and streamed, I thought it was time ... | |
| Night and day speaker connection I Tri-wire my ushers. I have a single speaker wire coming from the amp to the bass module. I then use a biwire speaker cable from another set of binding posts on the amp that hooks up the midrange and tweeter. My old setup was using the same singl... | |
| Considering Moving to an Integrated, Opinions Appreciated The dacs in the Hegels are pretty decent but not close to their standalone dacs or other quality dacs. I had the Hegel 100 then upgraded to the H300, never used its dac. (I have a new Mcintosh C47 preamp with a very good dac and I don't use that e... | |
| Considering Moving to an Integrated, Opinions Appreciated I had a small listening room 20 years ago (12x13) and IMO it’s a mistake to think you can go light in power just because it’s a small room. If you go with the H190, you won’t get any bass at lower volumes whereas the H360 has more power and you wi... | |
| Considering Moving to an Integrated, Opinions Appreciated A couple of options: if you want a tube integrated, check out the Rogue Cronus Magnum with kt120 tubes. I would look at the Hegel H300-H360 if you want a more neutral sounding amp with a dac built in. I’ve owned both the Rogue and Hegel. The Rogue... | |
| A visit to the (Audio) Doctor All salesmen are prejudice. No single audio dealer has everything that I want. For example, if you go to the AD for advice, would they actually tell you to go down the street to audition a pair of Revel’s or Wilson’s because that would fit tour ne... | |
| Center placed equipment stands After evaluating things, I decided on getting a low 2 shelf 18” high cabinet that is wide compared to putting a normal rack on the side. Since I wanted both right and left reflection point absorbers to be identical, I would have had to put the rac... |