rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| 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... | |
| Brave man, McGowan... Power cables can make a big difference. Any cable can make a difference. The difference might not always be an improvement or the difference might not be worth the extra $$$ you might have to pay. | |
| Qobuz Special Offer I have compared the catalogs of tidal and quboz and tidal has many more albums of the music I like. Another plus for tidal is MQA. Amazon might have more music than both tidal and qobuz combined, but Roon can’t access amazon and amazon doesn’t hav... | |
| Honest opinions on my two picks of loudspeakers I Would have picked the Revel’s over any JBL, Klipsch, or mc speaker. My friend is a JBL dealer and he had the $45k pair in his own house, not impressed for $45k. Revel’s are 1/2 the cost.I’ve heard the Revel’s in multiple show rooms with good ele... | |
| How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog? IMO, you need to spend 2-3x more on analog to get better sound than good digital. It will take more than $3000 to get a really good dac just like it will take much more than $10k to get good analog. Sure, you can get a $1k rega or music hall, and ... | |
| Is the buyer responsible to cover the cost of a return? I’ve had a couple of instances with buyers and when I told them that if the unit returned to me was the exact item (serial numbers matched for example), then I would refund their money. None of them came back after that.How do you know if he recei... | |
| Network Switches Before I go looking at a switch for issues, try looking at all the cables and connectors first, then if you are using copper for your outside network, change that to fiber. When I did corporate networks in the early 90’s, we would verify/signature... | |
| Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service This is not hi-res quality music. Most songs seem to be redbook cd quality. Hi-res quality can be 24/192, but DSD and MQA are of much better SQ. Since I have hundreds of DSD or 24/192 songs ripped, and also stream Tidal MQA, I use roon. I will nev... |