rbstehno
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| Unbalaned to Balanced How can someone say balanced doesn’t make a difference? Also, who cares if some amps only have rca connections? It’s irrelevant. If the equipment is truly balanced, use balanced. Balanced cables have better connectors, support much longer length, ... | |
| Quiet Enjoyment: right of audiophiles neighbors to NOT be annoyed 1st: why would a person that liked loud music put them in this situation? For the past 30 years at least, I built each new house or bought each new existing house with my dedicated audio room in mind. I always kept the dedicated audio room away fr... | |
| The Science of Vinyl/Analog Setups For you measurement types, based on the following specs, how are each of these cartridges going to sound? Since I have had both, I know if the specs actually tell the difference in sound quality. Frequency Response: 10Hz - 60kHzChannel Separation ... | |
| Speakers Try some of the Usher CP series speakers. I had the cp6381 and it sounded very good. If you want a much better speaker try the usher mini dancer 1 or 2 speakers with the diamond tweeter | |
| Speaker Width? The responders are being nice to you. For good sound, you want to start with your speakers 1/3 from the back wall of the length of the room and 1/3 from each of the sidewalls to start. Check out speaker positioning from Cardas, Vandersteen and guy... | |
| Top music streamer for 2019? Aurender N10’s? A few years ago, I evaluated a few music servers and the Auralic Aries was much better than the Aurenders. Since then, I sold the Aries and went back to using a Mac iMac for storing my ripped music and access to Tidal, using Roon on the Mac iMac, ... | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? The older Klipsch speakers were pretty good. The newer smaller models are not that good. Very cool/shrill sounding speakers IMO. | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more If you currently have the PS Audio dac, keep it, you won’t find anything better for anywhere near its price. Since this covers a few items off your checklist, now get a preamp that handles the rest of your wants. Btw: the ps audio ds dacs do sound... | |
| Best solution to send digital files to my DAC If you look at any music server, they are just a personal computer with usually a Linux OS of some type. I have been down that route. Most music servers use the inferior USB connection. Another thing you don’t want to do is have a music server wit... | |
| Do you listen to equipment or music. Yes! | |
| CD no more produced? I haven’t purchased a cd in a couple of years. Before that, a ripped cd sounded better than a cd itself. If you don’t think tidal MQA isn’t better than a cd, something might be wrong with your streaming process. | |
| Dumb lo-fi question. If you don’t want to take a chance on cutting your impedance in half and possibly fry the amp or destroy the speakers, get an external speaker selector box with matching impedance so the amp sees an 8 ohm load even with 6 speakers playing. PM me a... | |
| Amp - preamp or integrated For your budget, I’d stay with the rogue unless:1: you need more power. Do you have the KT120’s? Get the 120’s2: Do you need to tighten up the bass?3: Do you want to go SS?I had the same amp with the kt120’s and it was a great amp until I changed ... | |
| Question About DACs You get what you pay for. I would only go for a FPGA dac. The 2 ps audio DS dacs are fpga based and have network cards built in so you don’t have to use the inferior usb connection and your music server/pc/Mac can be in a different room. Also, rea... | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? There are some great sounding integrated out there. I have gone the route of separates to integrated back to separates. The main reason was when switching/moving up the speaker chain, I needed more power and I wasn’t going to use the integrated as... |