rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| Do you listen to equipment or music. Yes! | |
| CD no more produced? I haven’t purchased a cd in a couple of years. Before that, a ripped cd sounded better than a cd itself. If you don’t think tidal MQA isn’t better than a cd, something might be wrong with your streaming process. | |
| Dumb lo-fi question. If you don’t want to take a chance on cutting your impedance in half and possibly fry the amp or destroy the speakers, get an external speaker selector box with matching impedance so the amp sees an 8 ohm load even with 6 speakers playing. PM me a... | |
| Amp - preamp or integrated For your budget, I’d stay with the rogue unless:1: you need more power. Do you have the KT120’s? Get the 120’s2: Do you need to tighten up the bass?3: Do you want to go SS?I had the same amp with the kt120’s and it was a great amp until I changed ... | |
| Question About DACs You get what you pay for. I would only go for a FPGA dac. The 2 ps audio DS dacs are fpga based and have network cards built in so you don’t have to use the inferior usb connection and your music server/pc/Mac can be in a different room. Also, rea... | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? There are some great sounding integrated out there. I have gone the route of separates to integrated back to separates. The main reason was when switching/moving up the speaker chain, I needed more power and I wasn’t going to use the integrated as... | |
| Looking for the best Preamp with a phono circuit built in Check out the new McIntosh C47 or C52 preamps. I own the c47 because I didn’t need the equalizer. Both of the preamps have inputs for 1 MM and 1 MC. These also come with a built in dac. | |
| Recommendation on power amp If you don’t have a dealer, call up PS Audio and try either their 250 stereo signature amp or their 300 monoblocks. I just bought their amp for my large Ushers. They have a 30 day trial period and they take tradeins. Highly rated. Also, why not dr... | |
| Dac selections I would take the ps audio DS or DS jr dac over any of those mentioned. Btw, I did. If a dac isn’t fpga nor does it not have a network interface, and it’s not a Roon endpoint, it’s a no show for | |
| Do I have to use a streamer/renderer to play music from an NAS? I run Roon on my Mac with no additional software. I used to have to run Minimserver or Bubbleupnp but got rid of all of that when I got Roon. I go directly to my dac using Ethernet so no need for the inferior usb connection.i use an Auralic mini f... | |
| NAS / media server / streaming newbie The best solution for under or around 5k would be:get a used Mac mini with 2-2 TB external disks for ripping/backupget a lifetime subscription to Roon get a ps audio ds jr dac.Don’t spend $500 to have somebody rip your cd’s, download the free app ... | |
| Do I have to use a streamer/renderer to play music from an NAS? If you want world class sound, keep any pc/Mac/music server out of the room. Put your server in another room and get a good dac with a network card in it. Also, you don’t need a music server/renderer to get music off a nas. If you have a good dac ... | |
| Why do I need Roon? Roon provides features that would be hard for other vendors to implement for a free app. If you pay for an app specifically rather than a part of a product, you have the luxury of hiring more software developers that can tackle more features. | |
| Why do I need Roon? I used to use amarra, pure music, and lastly audirvana. Roon surpasses them all for functionality and SQ. DS Lightning from Auralic and the LUMIN software would come in 2 and 3 behind Roon.Roon provides such features that would, behard | |
| MQA is Legit! The MQA ney-sayers sound exactly like the cable ney-sayers. If you compare these groups, they put down the people that can hear a difference. They state so-called facts, charts, expert comments, and whatever else they can find to support their cau... |