rbstehno
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| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... As for the electronics, I listen in the dark most of the time. I like a good looking tt and I have the hanss t-60 with vpi 3D tonearm. Speakers, I use Ushers that are made out of real wood and bent with a large press to get the year rounded back. ... | |
| Looking for the best moving coil cart that is around $5K used Handyman-if your have a top notch digital setup, you would think digital is equal or better than vinyl. Not all vinyl sounds good, actually, if I was to play a Beatles album, it would be the mono version, the stereo versions sucked compared to the... | |
| Looking for the best moving coil cart that is around $5K used You are limited by the tt arms you have since I’m guessing the vpi has the jmw9 tonearm. If you go with an upgraded cartridge up to $5k, you need to upgrade the tonearm, maybe using the vpi tt with a new vpi 3D arm, 10” or 12” if they would fit. I... | |
| Some Direction Please...... I used to have the rogue Cronus magnum II with the kt-120 tubes, wry nice tube amp. Heads up, if you have 4 ohm speakers, make sure you change the internal wire that sets up the rogue to 4 ohm load, it made a huge gain in driving my Usher MD ii’s... | |
| Usher Audio X-Tower Got got mine last week. Moved up from the usher Mini Dancer ii’s with the dmd tweeter. The md ii’s are very nice sounding speakers but the x-towers are much better.The bass is more tight and more there, but it should because of the 11” woofer. The... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @Slaw-I moved from the Usher Mini Dancer 2’s with the DMD tweeters, which I’m now selling. For the money you can’t beat Usher. My other rooms have Usher speakers too. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Just purchased a pair of Usher X-Towers so I have been going thru acoustic alchemy, Diana krall, joe bonamassa, Spyro gyro, and Yellowjacket albums to set them up. After many hours, setup is finished. | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? Sorry, it should have read: It’s not worth the digital print to respond to this absurd post | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? It worth the digital print to respond to this absurd post | |
| Gonna have to ditch the Soundsmith Carmen II Send it back to Peter and have him check it out. If you like the Carmen except for the issue, try out the latest version soundsmith zephyr. I have had the zephyr II for a few years and like it better than the Ortofon MC cart that I had prior. | |
| Analogue-free system Darkstar1- not sure how you setup your digital library but it doesn’t sound like it’s setup correctly. When I used a computer as a music server with pure music or audirvana, I had no issues with library metadata. Now, I don’t use a computer hooked... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range I would suggest the revel salon 2 or studio 2 depending on your room size and your amps power ratings. I would also suggest the Usher BE-10 or BE-20 depending on room size and amp power. All of these speakers have excellent SQ and highly rated if ... | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement Go on some road trips to some audio shows around the country or the world. You will be able to talk to different dealers and will probably work out some demo time in your house. Or, you can team up with some manufacturers like PS Audio that gives ... | |
| Analogue-free system I think it is stupid to complain about backing up a digital file, or losing a cd or song. When I backup a file it’s there in duplicate for many many years. I can get a song, a cd, or a library back in minutes. You accidentally do something to viny... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD You couldn’t get any worse source music than iTunes. Plus you are limited by using a Mac mini with amarra. Plus having a Mac in an audio room is the worse. I had this setup a few years ago and replaced it with an Auralic Aries and SQ was much bett... |