rbstehno
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| DAC diminishing returns If you can’t hear a difference then save your money. I can tell you that there are many dacs that would be an huge upgrade for you but they will cost more, and the better 1’s will require you to upgrade your system to get the best out of the dac. ... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit Noske- that is just my opinion. Looking at the video, the reviewer didn’t like what Danny was telling him regarding how measurements are taken. I think this upset the reviewer. Plus, a while back, Danny called out reviewers for not doing appropria... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit We are talking about a $300 speaker, right? Not sure if ASR is up for reviewing speakers but if you look at the latest TAS issue that has the Stenhiem $72,000 speakers that he thought were the cats meow, and they had square edges, as well as many ... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit ASR's comment about square edges on the cabinet. Look at the latest review in TAS, the Stenhiem $72,000 speaker has square edges, along with Harbeth and many others which I think are some of the ugliest speakers out there, and I don't like the sou... | |
| 2019 Mac Pro vs. Roon Dave and Troy- I’m guessing those 2 servers that you found to be the best, you probably sell those too, correct? “Roon has a dedicated Linux program you can use”. Roon provides software for many different OS’s. 99% of computer users don’t know l... | |
| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet Phantom-av, sure magazines need to make money to stay in business but the audio magazine groups do it the worst way possible compared to other high budget hobby magazines: like car magazines. You can take any 6 of car magazines and they do a much ... | |
| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet Thank god he’s going to TAS because I don’t read TAS anymore due to their ridiculously always favorable reviews, every product reviewed is the best product ever made. In the past, I refused to read any of Fremer reviews outside of analog products... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up Audiotroy is no different than a tas or stereophile reviewer. Have you ever read a post from audiotroy on a product they sell or a review from tas/stereophile that wasn’t the best product ever made? I gave up on the trade mags for this very reason... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up Let me guess, audiotroy must be selling this thing, am I correct? | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? If you are using usb to any dac, you will have inferior sq. what is a streamer? A computer running a proprietary OS usually running on hardware with gimmick technology to promote a higher price. Keep any server out of your audio room and use a b... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media Have the CD player try to access music from tidal or Qobuz. I’ve been streaming for over 15 years, got rid of my $3000 Classe CD player 14 years ago, and still have a Sony SACD player that hasn’t played a disc in 10 years. I have tried all differ... | |
| Ridiculous sale The op must have purchased a new car that was in demand. The 2000 Honda S2000 was asking $10k over msrp and sold every one. The Enzo, I had a friend that was getting offers $300k over what he paid for his because only a certain number of cars were... | |
| Innuos Phoenix USB Reclocker - Sounds Worse? I tied a lot of these tweaks/gimmicks trying to get usb to sound good years ago and each tweak/gimmick was like putting lipstick on a pig. Got rid of the usb dac and went with a better dac with i2s and Ethernet inputs | |
| Digital Interconnects - Which one is the BEST ??!! USB sucks. Of course you will have dealers recommending usb because they want to sell you a number of tweaks/gimmicks to try to improve usb. Ethernet/fiber/network or i2s aware best if your dac supports them but only the better dacs supports thes... | |
| Almost equality I sold my $14k turntable setup and almost 500 albums over 3 years ago when my digital system surpassed vinyl. Will never go back to vinyl |