rbstehno
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| OCD audio guy naming shady Audiogon dealers by name A typical salesman/dealer, everybody has crappy equipment except him. This guy is irritating to watch. | |
| “House” Character of Popular $20-$30k Speakers ROFL from bache's post. How about a used pair of Wilson Maxx or Alexia, or new Revel Salon 2/Studio 2, Usher BE-10/BE-20/TD-10/TD-20? | |
| Scam Alert It’s not only PayPal. I’ve had these emails from apple, sams club, and others. You never want to call the number in the email. If you want to check, call the number from their website and ask them or check the status of your account from their web... | |
| After years of separates, I'm going integrated. Anyone else do the same? Eugene81-every audio piece that I have owned or have heard the combined multiple components in them like a dac or phono stage have always been a compromise. It seems the manufacturers think giving you 75% of the sound quality of their best standal... | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns I agree with jerryg123. If you get 1 very good component and the rest are low fi, the system will only sound as good as the weakest component. I'm not saying that you have to spend $10k on every component, but if you get 1 very nice component, you... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. Your room and listening location are your limitations. You state you have a large room but in your picture, your seating location is very close to the speakers. Also, your speakers are going to be setup close to the wall so you will need to adjust... | |
| After years of separates, I'm going integrated. Anyone else do the same? I tried doing that a few years ago. Went with highly regarded integrateds at the time and they sounded very good until I needed more power for bigger speakers, then I went back to separates. What I found out with integrated amps (and this comes f... | |
| Prioritizing Power Cable Upgrades by System Component. There is so much more to power cables than just the gauge of the wire. Carlsbad, you are so far off, your reply was foolish. 1st, the owner needs to check with the component manufacturer to see what the minimum amp rating is required before any as... | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? Optimize-what are you talking about? Raw speaker components have changed quite a bit in the last 40 some years: amt units (bought speakers with AMT driver in 1978 and since nobody wanted to pay Heil any royalties, nobody us d them until recently)... | |
| Optical vs Ultra Rendu. It’s funny that people are worried about sq when they use usb to their dac. If you want to increase sq, stop using usb. If you have a noisy network, right before your dac when using the Ethernet input on your dac, get a pair of Ethernet to fiber ... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? It has nothing to do with inflation. Go to an audio show. I did last month and $35k-over $100k speakers sound much worse than say the Revel salon/studio 2’s for $23k or lower. If it was inflation and you also based it on sq, the revels would be $1... | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? Aj523-the $120k/pair Kroma Audio Elektra floor standers. The room sounded good, it had creek gear which I never heard creek gear sound this good. I was thinking the speakers should be in the $10k-$15k price range. IMO, there are many many speaker... | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? If you would have gone to the Tampa bay audio show last month, there were many mid fi or even terrible sounding speakers that were way north of $30k. There was a tower speaker teamed up with creek gear and the speakers were ok sounding, and they ... | |
| Intergrated Amp suggestions for B&W 805d4 You need a warm sounding amp with B&W speakers. Check out the latest McIntosh integrateds. They have 250-300 watts with plenty of power. | |
| streamer Lumin U1 or Aries G2.1 USB sucks! It doesn't surprise me that another input sounded better. Not sure what people think they are going to get out of a dedicated music server over a nicely setup server running Roon? You should not have any server in your music room or you... |