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| Our Responsibility What is snake oil? Who gives the right of 1 person to call something snake oil? For example: who gives somebody the right to call cables snake oil? How about power conditioners? How about room acoustic pieces? Who qualifies as an expert to label a... | |
| Best DAC to go with Aurender N100H? I’m not surprised that audiotroy recommended a Lumin, he is a dealer for them. A little slanted recommendation in my opinion.As for the comment, an aurender will sound good with any dac, bs! A source component will only sound as good as the weakes... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste bdp24 - give us a break with your flawed reasoning.USB technology is inferior and I'm glad I went away with USB a couple of years ago, SQ jumped up. Also, you should not have a pc/Mac/music server in your audio room. The better route is to use eth... | |
| MC462 enough to handle Revel Salon 2’s? It should. I demoed my Totem Mani ii’s which is an inefficient speaker with a wide range of mcintosh amps and the best sounding came out of the 1k Mac monoblocks. I could has easily lived with the smaller amps, but the 1k’s were spectacular with t... | |
| Audirvana Plus vs Roon - High Sound Quality at Lower Cost? I got rid of A+ a couple of years ago for 2 main reasons:the lack of a nice GUI The necessity of placing the Mac in the audio room and using usb to the dacwhen I switched, Roon was superior in sq and of course the GUI. I have heard rumblings that ... | |
| Room improvement If your room sounds like crap with nothing in it, slap echo, hollow sounding, overdamped, reverberations, etc., why would you think an audio system will fix all of these issues. A good room will allow a good speaker to sound great whereas a bad ro... | |
| What brands tend to have the worst resale value? This is a big reason I went with the ps audio FPGA based dac. I get free upgrades every 6 months whereas most other dacs become more out of date, plus the ps audio dac is very very good. Even manufacturers that build components with individual boa... | |
| Wilson Sophia vs Usher Mini Dancer II The mini dancer ii’s are a very good speaker for its size and price. The problem with the md ii’s is the bass response. There is a lot of bass, it took me days/weeks to get them positioned correctly in my 27’x16’x12’ dedicated room. Was driving th... | |
| Speakers better than Revel Salon 2 I agree with the Usher’s. I bought the Usher x-towers a year ago after auditioning the Revel Salon 2’s. I also like the Usher BE10’s and BE 20’s.i think the Salon 2’s are a great speaker too.Besides the Usher or revel’s, I like the $100k Raidho’s. | |
| 2000-2500 USD budget for an integrated amplifier. Do amplifiers sound the same? :) Except for the older klipsch models, you should team up your speakers with either tubes or a neutral or warm sounding SS amp. For tubes, the Rogue Cronus magnum II with the kt120 tubes is 1 very nice amp for < $2000 used. For neutral SS, the He... | |
| 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... |