rbstehno
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| 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... | |
| GIK alternatives I have GIK panels and I picked them up from their office in Atlanta. I would have recommended them until I heard the news above. I also use ASC and Michael Greene treatments | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? The room and speaker positioning are the number 1 task to get right or nothing else will. I think what you see in peoples system is equipment in non-dedicated rooms so they are limited on how far out they can bring the speakers out from the back w... | |
| Madman! Digital vs Vinyl I sold my $15k tt setup a few years ago and every vinyl album I had. I also did numerous comparisons between vinyl and hi res digital (dsd, MQA, 24/192), and digital won. | |
| Looks like PS Audio has a hit on their hands with the new speaker You guys haven’t been out lately to shows have you? Have you seen what’s on the market these days for $28k? I attended the Florida audio expo a few weeks ago and most of the speakers cost more than you he PSA speakers and they sounded like crap. T... | |
| Audiogon Question It’s easy to defraud PayPal as a buyer and PayPal almost always sides with the buyer. When I ship international I always have the buyer use PayPal friends and family so there is no recourse. Once you ship anything overseas/international, their is ... | |
| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. A couple of things. Don't listen to people that have biases against MQA, their judgment is flawed to start with. Same as asking a pure analog guy how digital sounds, they will never tell you that digital sounds good. Good MQA IMO is better than vi... | |
| Rate my system/advise There is a reason you always see B&W speakers with McIntosh or Classe amps. I have also found that Nordost cables are a little on the cool side. Adding more cool sounding gear with the B&W’s might not be the sound you want |