rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| 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... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers audiolabyrinth, I agree, most of the posters have not heard Mike Portnoy. He can do more with his feet than most of the posted drummers can do with their hands. Neal is good but pretty basic. Listen to some older Dream Theater with Mike and then l... | |
| A lot of hype about PS Audio, deservedly so ? I have their new dac with the bridge, excellent. When it’s time to upgrade my amp/pre, ps audio bhk pieces will be the 1st I audition | |
| Aurender, wich one? Upgrading from a Mac mini When I auditioned a music server moving from a dedicated Mac mini with audirvana, I liked the Auralic Aries much better than the aurenders. The DS Lightning software is very good. I then used the Mac mini as a OS X server with 24TB of raid disk fo... | |
| Advice from members Yes, it’s not that good of a dac compared to what I have now. Even the newer h360 doesn’t have a really good dac | |
| Advice from members The reason I mentioned you should get a dsd and MQA compatible system because these formats equal and sometimes surpass my vinyl rig with is a hanss t-60 tt with vpi 3D tonearm and soundsmith cartridge. I wouldn’t by any dac today that doesn’t hav... | |
| Advice from members Hegel h300 with Usher mini dancer 2’s with DMD. Use 2 subs with 2-10” woofers in each enclosure and each sub has 500 watts. Dedicated room 27’ x 16’ with 12’ ceiling, bass traps in each corner, 1st reflection point room tunes and 1 chair. 6 dedica... | |
| Advice from members My prior setup used an Auralic Aries with a w4s dac 2 dsd dac using the w4s reclocker with audioquest diamond usb cable. This was much better setup than using a Mac mini running audirvana 2+. I have since sold all of that I bought the ps audio dir... | |
| Advice from members USB is not that great of an interface but it usually has better specs that spdif and especially toslink. If you do use usb, get the best cable you can afford, huge differences between cables, don’t let people tell you different. I would swap out y... | |
| Buyer wants copy of passport? No way in he$$. The new scam is a buyer purchasing your equipment and then sending their broken piece back to you because nobody keeps record of the serial # that they are selling. When I sell something, I’m going to include in the agreement a pic... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Hands down either the ps audio directstream with bridge II or the directstream jr. these compete with dacs many times the price. I have 1, the bridge puts the dac in another league | |
| Does a streamer do anything to the data that Tidal provides? Why would you want a streamer or a computer to act like a streamer these days? I got rid of my dedicated Mac mini running various audio software (pure music, audirvana) years ago. This setup bettered than a multi thousand $$ CD player which I sold... |