rbstehno
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| RMAF vs AXPANO I usually attend rmaf each year and have attended CES a few times years ago when I was something. Rmaf 2016 was the worst show I have ever attended. Nobody knew that they were remodeling and most of the rooms were way to small and sounded terrible... | |
| What are your thoughts about moving up product line(s) within a Company? In many speaker vendors lines, you can upgrade by going to the next model. For me this has occurred with my ushers, and in the past with totem and others. But upgrading to the next up the chain speaker might involve upgrading your equipment. For m... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations, please. If you would get any VPI tt with the 3d arm, you will far ahead of the other tt mentioned. Any Denon, old SOTA, rega, etc.. tt will be limited by the tonearm, meaining you will be limited on moving up the cartridge line, that’s where you will see ... | |
| Dedicated 20 amp lines/should i use a sub panel New house, ran 4 separate 20 amp circuits to 1 of the main panels. I asked my electrician and he thought that would be best. No hum or issues and have plenty of power for anything I want to use | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations, please. IMO, I would continue saving until you can get a vpi prime or something similar. The tt’s you mention are not that much better and in a couple of years you are going to be doing another upgrade. The tt base is important, but I think the tonearm is... | |
| Are my " diamond " tweeters really diamond I don’t really care how my Usher diamond tweeters are made, I do know they sound much better than the prior beryllium tweeters or the silk dome tweeters Usher used to use. I still own some old Usher speakers for my secondary systems and the silk d... | |
| Speaker distance Dedicated room: use the 1/3 methodology, 1/3 length of room for distance of speaker to back wall; 1/3 length of room for distance of chair to wall. Then I used cardas calculations for distance from side walls. Fine tune toe in.room tuning devices ... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Pure bs about musicians being deaf. Who picks out the equipment that the musician uses? Would I ask a guitar player to pick my cymbal array or would a piano player ask a drummer if the piano is tuned? I know what a ride cymbal sounds like, I could... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Wireless is a terrible way to transmit bits for audio. That signal gets broadcast and competes with all the other noise on those bands: remote noise, degradation of bandwidth due to # of walls/barriers between the source and the dac/bridge, and ot... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Sorry it is redcloud. I upgraded before going into the hospital for surgery. Too much pain killers! | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC If your home is wired with a home run built in, meaning each room has its own Ethernet port and all of the terminates at 1 location, then you would plug all of these Ethernet cables into the switch, then run a cable from 1 of the router ports to t... | |
| HELP PLEASE - VPI Classic Signature 3D Arm or Dr. Feickert Woodpecker Jelco Arm I would go with the VPI Prime with the 10” 3D arm. As for cartridges, you are going to have to do better than the mentioned Ortofon/Soundsmith/Denon to get better sound than your digital setup. Also, when you do move up in cartridges, your phono b... | |
| Biggest impact: moving from integrated to separates Why do you think going to separates is going to up the SQ? I had a pair of Classe separates then moved to the rogue Cronus magnum 2 with the kt120 tubes. I liked the move except the Cronus caused some flabby/not controlled bass. So I move to a Heg... | |
| HOW TO POSITION 2 PAIRS OF SPEAKER FOR ALTERNATE LISTENING I have seen the mids/woofers moving a little so I just moved them out. I can’t remember if I heard a difference or not, it’s been years | |
| HOW TO POSITION 2 PAIRS OF SPEAKER FOR ALTERNATE LISTENING According to Jim smith, you never want more than 1 pair of speakers in a room. The driven pair will start to move the cones of the standby pair |