rbstehno
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| Aurender vs. Roon I denied the Aurender against the Auralic Aries a few years ago and much preferred the Auralic which I purchased. The Aurender gimmicks just didn’t do it for me. Also, the DS Lightning app was far superior to the Aurender app. A year ago I decided... | |
| If you love the Ortofon 2M Black, you'll really love...... (help me upgrade) For an introductory cartridge the 2M is good, but far far from the best. The Cadenza line is much better than the 2M. I sold my last Ortofon MC cart and bought a Soundsmith. Very nice and he will take care of you in the future. | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? Analytical is associated with cool sounding, with the benchmark I’ll go with shrill sounding. The Benchmark is way too analytical IMO. At past audio shows, in every room with the benchmark dac, I spent an average of 2 minutes listening, sometimes ... | |
| Hihat Question It’s not just the hi hat, it’s all the cymbals. In 78’ I purchased a pair of ess speakers with the heil air transformer because of their clarity. The heil air transformer is still being used in many speakers today. I’m listening to some old Kansas... | |
| Preamp Choice... a hard call for me. Look at the McIntosh c47 pre, it has a decent internal dac and internal phono preamp for both mm and Mc carts. I like my C47 but use an external dac that supports MQA, a Roon endpoint and it just sounds better. But my external dac cost more than t... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? Watch out for the people that are trying to sell you something. Also, if you like a cold/analytical sounding dac, get a benchmark. Some dacs are overpriced and there are good dacs priced fairly cheap. I wouldn’t buy a non-fpga type dac, you are to... | |
| Hihat Question As a drummer, for over 45 years when demoing audio systems I always have listened how the cymbals sound. I used to own the usher cp6381’s which were very good especially for the money. If you want to hear a true cymbal sound, go listen to the ushe... | |
| Used Market Savings vs. The Dealer Experience This is why you go to audio shows. You listen to all sorts of gear and you go back home with ideas and start shopping used or new with no guilt. Most individual dealers IMO don’t have everything I want. For example, how many dealers will carry ush... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol I have never heard a McIntosh product sound raspy! You don’t have quality cables. I have heard the 10t’s and the 20t’s and thought they were very bright sounding especially the 20t’s. It very well could be a synergy issue. Maybe borrow a friends a... | |
| Connecting confusion You can use rca or toslink coming out of your DVD player and go into your dac or into the Hegel depending on available open ports, you will need to configure the DVD player to output 2 channel instead of multichannel. | |
| How much would I lose going to a Bluesound Node 2i Most people who complain about MQA are the 1’s that have outdated equipment and/or don’t or can’t update it to support MQA. I wouldn’t buy a dac without MQA support. Good MQA surpasses other digital formats and surpasses vinyl in SQ. Just like eve... | |
| Wet carpet under system If its rain from leaking into your house because of rising water around your foundation, only flood insurance will cover that. Any pipe leak or roof leak your home owners insurance will cover that.call a pro in to fix it. They will know exactly w... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp I stopped using a $3000 CD player over 10 years ago. Mac mini running pure music or audirvana sounded better. I used to use XLD but switched to MAX.Disk drives for music are fine to use, SSD’s are way over kill. I used to market enterprise SSD’s f... | |
| Which Amp to complete my system? Why not try the psa bhk 250 signature. I really like mine | |
| Audiogon’s transaction fees It’s so easy. In the drop down icon on the top right, click that and then click sell. It’s shows a table describing the listing cost with the associated cost of the item for sale. For example, if you are selling an item between $0 and $999, your c... |