rbstehno
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| My Thoughts re: Dealers Posting on Audiogon How can anybody compare rennlist to a dealer that promotes their wares on agon? Rennlist is much more than a dealer. If you other than a Porsche, why would you visit Rennlist. I bet they would recommend a Porsche for most things and the audience w... | |
| New DAC or New Streamer or New Streamer/DAC A few years ago I demo’d the Auralic Aries, Lumin, and a Aurender and I bought the Aries. I also think the Aurender SSD caching area is a gimmick. The Auralic Lightning DS GUI interface was far superior to the the others. But, I used the Lumin sof... | |
| Help ! I agree that Linux is the way to go ONLY if you understand it. Very few people can get into Linux to do anything like assign a disk and create a backup routine. How about using FSCK to look at trouble areas? I ran million $$$ Linux database server... | |
| Is Usher still around ryriken - sorry I just saw your response. I sold the MD II’s shortly after I replied here. Since I didn’t want to ship them, the new owner drove over 800 miles round trip to pick them up. They are very good speakers and nothing can touch them in t... | |
| beryllium vs diamond I have the latest large floor standing Ushers with the DMD tweeters and they are so much better than their earlier BE tweeters. The BE tweeters were a large step up over their prior silk tweeters and the DMD are a large step up from the BE. The DM... | |
| Looking for a good full range floor stander When is audiotroy going to recommend something that he doesn’t sell? Never!Legacy speakers are decent, I hear them at each RMAF. There are many other speakers imo that are better than Legacy for around the same or a little more $$$.Usher BE20, Rev... | |
| The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity! The comments: “I think its capitalism at its finest. Not only that but the market is shrinking and manufactures need to increase their prices to make a living getting by. That, and greed.” Are totally off base and just foolish.Technology keeps imp... | |
| Help ! So many foolish statements made in this thread.1) backup your data to the same disk drive if you buy a big enough disk, NAS or anything else. Sorry but this is idiotic. If your NAS fails, everything is gone. Even if you use something like a Drobo... | |
| Most impressive small footprint speaker Totem Mani II signature, Model 1 signature, Usher Mini-X, BE-718 | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? Echo audio is great. Pearl audio is also very good in Portland. The art of audio when they were open was excellent. In Seattle, Definitive Audio always had the best sounding gear. The problem with B&m stores now is that they are used by people... | |
| 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. |