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Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@audphile1  Heh heh.  Yeah, my bad.  Alvin wouldn’t touch the nuts here.   
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@mdalton. Yeah, sorry I got your daddy’s name wrong.   
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@mdalton The vast majority of people here find meaningful differences in the impact streamers have on sound so you’re in the distinct minority, If you can’t hear differences between streamers then that’s sad but good for you, and I hear ASR callin... 
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@mdalton Maybe because they don’t like people who like to play mommy.  Hmmm.  
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@mdalton Nah, just issues with ridiculous statements.  
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
@mdalton Yeah, and I have a different opinion from him which is perfectly within my right. He came out and made a strong statement that I thought was ridiculous and rebutted it. That happens here — deal with it. BTW, the vast majority of people he... 
Upgrade Digital Cable Review
Agreed.  I had a well-regarded budget digital cable for years thinking it was fine, but upgrading to a $600 cable was like making a big component upgrade — biggest difference any cable has made in my system by a good margin, and I was pissed at my... 
Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier
I listen to a lot of music and don’t take kindly to being told I don’t know how to do so. @rtorchia Well then don’t make a statement like you did when the OP has already said he heard significant improvements upgrading a couple of his PCs becau... 
Best Music Streamer to pair with Rogue Audio monoblocks and Pre-Amp
Streamers don’t have a sound and I agree software would be the focus. Well that’s just completely untrue, poor advice, and the words of someone with little/no experience comparing streamers and/or has a system or ears incapable of revealing the... 
Trying to decide between Quad S2 and Ascend Sierra 2 EX
I believe ProMusica is a Quad dealer so you may be able to hear the S2s there. They also apparently carry Totem and ProAc and I’d highly recommend giving those a listen while you’re there as both are excellent. If it was me and I was planning on u... 
Do your ears deceive you?
Confirmation bias is real. But some cables do make a difference. If you can’t hear it you either have the wrong cables, an insufficient system, an inability to hear those differences or confirmation bias against cables.  +1 @zlone  
Upgrade from WIlson Sabrina
So it sounds like you’re dealing with a room issue more than anything.  If that’s the case and you otherwise like your speakers then playing with placement would be the first thing to do, and there’s no guarantee switching speakers will leave you ... 
New Steely Dan Aja
The CISCO pressing has been a reference for many folks, so would be interesting to compare this new one to a CISCO. @jdjohn  Here’s the Stereophile review where the UHQR gets much higher marks than the Cisco version… https://www.analogplanet.co... 
dac recommendations for turntable listener?
im pretty happy with how the ps audio sounds now other than the tiny bit of upper midrange sharpness that still remains. Your very cheap interconnects are doing you no favors with this and should be the next thing you explore.  As you found wit... 
Swap out b&w 802 d3 for Sonus faber amati g5?
The Amatis would seem to be an excellent choice depending on how they work with your upstream electronics of course.  Some others worth considering would be Joseph Audio, ProAc, Rockport, Wilson, Vandersteen, QLN, and maybe Usher although I’ve not...