rbstehno
Responses from rbstehno
| ETHERNET CABLES Of course their is a sq difference in a better cable, including Ethernet cables. In the past, I tried the top of the line blue jeans interconnects to see what all the talk was about and to compare them to my reference cables that cost many times ... | |
| To ROON or not to ROON ? If I was to go back to a dedicated server (which I’m not), the best software and sound came from the Auralic Lightning DS, Lumin, and then Aurender. The best software on your own hardware is Roon, Audirvana, Pure Music. Not only does Roon sound t... | |
| Why not? Why? Also, in the OP’s way of thinking, why stop at power cords? How about the interconnects, speaker, usb, Ethernet, and any other type of cable that might be connected to this device? Now you see the problem. Any of these cables can have a small... | |
| Busted! Reviewer copies manufacturers sales page in review? Noromance-aren’t car reviews subjective too? Looks of a car vs sound of a component? Only car magazines have multiple reviewers evaluating a group of cars sometimes, especially when they rate 20+ cars for the car of the year, and they rate the wor... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? Not sure what the new big deal about streaming is. I’ve been using streaming/audio servers for 15 years. Sold my $3000 Classe CD player 13 years ago because ripped music sounded better. It’s mostly been about the software that has been driving thi... | |
| Busted! Reviewer copies manufacturers sales page in review? Noromance- just because Fremer said something doesn’t make it better. All the top car mags evaluate multiple cars and only 1 is the winner. When audio mags can truly evaluate multiple products against each other and rate them from best to worst, t... | |
| Busted! Reviewer copies manufacturers sales page in review? All audio magazines do this. Also, when have you seen a negative review of anything in an audio magazine. They are a joke. | |
| Sound quality of Roon The wadax server was in 1 of the worst sounding rooms at axpona this year by multiple reviewers. I didn’t believe any of the wadax server review in TAS either. I went from using iTunes over 15 years ago, then using Pure Music and Audirvana for ye... | |
| Indentical measurments = Identical performance? Who listens to asr? Measurements don’t tell you how it sounds. What is the sq difference of a dac with .005 distortion vs .0003? Good luck. Stereophile is the worst on producing bad measurements and reviewers love the sound. I never look at measur... | |
| What Digital to Digital Converter Do You Use? Why? I would never use usb. I won’t use any tweaks to try to get better performance from usb. I use Ethernet and i2s to my dac, and my dac is fpga based. | |
| What the ship just happened? Unless you are going to keep this forever, send it back. It is damaged and you don’t have the oem packaging, 2 of the highest issues that buyers look at when buying. I hope you took a picture of the amp on your porch. I had a large piece of art t... | |
| Lumin U2 Mini If you think you need a server, check out the Auralic, when I bought 1 many years ago, it sounded better than any Aurender or Lumin I had demoed. Also, DS Lightning software from Auralic is much better than the software from Lumin or Aurender. I g... | |
| Your thoughts on selling That’s a terrible idea on how to sell vinyl. I sold all my vinyl and everything analog a couple years ago. It was very easy. I went out and looked on a couple websites for the range of prices people were asking for each piece. Then, I would only s... | |
| Qobuz or Apple Music? Neither! I prefer tidal because of the SQ and what's available. | |
| E-bay and its sellers now why would any seller out of the blue refuse to sell something to a buyer, especially a buyer that has recently purchased from the seller? I don't think we are getting the whole story. This is like a buyer on agon wanting to buy an amp from a s... |