rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| SPEAKERS JUMPER CABLES Jumpers are a step up from the manufacturer supplied jumpers. Another step up would be to biwire from the amp. My amp has 2 pairs of posts per channel and I Tri-wire my usher’s from the same cable manufacturer. | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. The Luxman has only 30/60 watts. Unless you have very efficient speakers, I wouldn’t get a low powered amp. I would pick the Hegel over a lot of the integrated amps mentioned here, I did buy 1. The only reason I’m selling it was that I purchased a... | |
| Is pre-amp getting killed? I like my ps audio DS dac with the bridge II. I looked at a lot of dacs and if the dac wasn’t fpga based, it was old technology and I skipped it. Every 6 months, I get an update that makes the DS sound better, and the current DS is rated in the to... | |
| Power conditioner or outlet? This is so easy to test for yourself. I have 6 dedicated 20 amp circuits for my audio room and I don’t use any conditioner for my monoblocks. For my digital front end I use a conditioner on a separate 20 amp circuit | |
| Totem Mani 2 and Ps Audio BHK 250 I have owned a couple of pairs of Totem's Mani 2's, along with several other Totem's at the time. The Mani's are extremely hard to drive. Not sure if 250 watts of a great amp like the BHK will be enough. The best my Mani's sounded is when I paired... | |
| I'm still mystified... It works both ways. If somebody wants to come by and pay cash, should they have to pay the full price with PayPal fees included in the price? If somebody sees a paypal surcharge, then pay by check and don’t pay the fee. It’s the buyers choice.Also... | |
| SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS AND MORE SPEAKERS.. BUT NEED BASS.? Another suggestion would be the new Usher mini dancer ii’s with the DMD tweeter. I just sold a pair for < $4000. The Usher DMD tweeter has 1 of the best tweeters on the market. The MD ii’s have very good bass too, read all of the reviews. I mov... | |
| Going Tidal, Need ??? There is no better software than roon to integrate tidal with your digital library. Not kazoo or LUMIN nor DS Lightning. Sure you can use any of the programs to access tidal but try integrating tidal albums with your digital.roon has fantastic SQ!... | |
| Music Server - The Search Begins IMO, out of all servers mentioned here, I would pick the Auralic Aries over any 1 of them for many reasons.When going this route, you need to look at:SQfunctionality- support connected disks or access a NAS/server, integration of Tidal or other st... | |
| Replacing generic RECEPTACLES A lot of this information that is given on this thread is wrong and tread lightly when listening to some of this. Most new construction will use 14g wire for 15 amp lines and most use 12g wire for 20 amp, never smaller but you can use 10g. Never a... | |
| The High End for Under a Grand? BS! I don’t understand people that make unrealistic claims, maybe they are just looking to get a rise out of people. The title is way off base, it should have read “decent sounding system on the cheap” then it would make more sense. This is is no ... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Teajay- I can’t believe what you said in your response: “This NOS Phillips DAC chip is extremely held in high esteem by many listeners/designers because if used in the right way”. So you are saying that only 1 manufacturer can perform magic on a b... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers Hopefully the demo will be with similar equipment that you currently own, for example, if you like tubes, demo the speakers with tube electronics. You will need to match speaker specs to your amp specs.If you are in the DC area, go demo Totem loud... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio I read the review and IMO it is way over the top for a review. What top quality dac uses those chips? I went out and reviewed other threads on those dac chips and here is an example of what I found:The TDA1543 chip is a budget chip and was designe... | |
| Hegel H300 still worth getting? At RMAF in the Hegel room a few years ago, I had them compare the h360 dac to their standalone dac, and their standalone dac was much better, and they will tell you that. After I looked at many dacs, I ended up getting the ps audio DS with the bri... |