rbstehno
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| Hihat Question As a drummer, for over 45 years when demoing audio systems I always have listened how the cymbals sound. I used to own the usher cp6381’s which were very good especially for the money. If you want to hear a true cymbal sound, go listen to the ushe... | |
| Used Market Savings vs. The Dealer Experience This is why you go to audio shows. You listen to all sorts of gear and you go back home with ideas and start shopping used or new with no guilt. Most individual dealers IMO don’t have everything I want. For example, how many dealers will carry ush... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol I have never heard a McIntosh product sound raspy! You don’t have quality cables. I have heard the 10t’s and the 20t’s and thought they were very bright sounding especially the 20t’s. It very well could be a synergy issue. Maybe borrow a friends a... | |
| Connecting confusion You can use rca or toslink coming out of your DVD player and go into your dac or into the Hegel depending on available open ports, you will need to configure the DVD player to output 2 channel instead of multichannel. | |
| How much would I lose going to a Bluesound Node 2i Most people who complain about MQA are the 1’s that have outdated equipment and/or don’t or can’t update it to support MQA. I wouldn’t buy a dac without MQA support. Good MQA surpasses other digital formats and surpasses vinyl in SQ. Just like eve... | |
| Wet carpet under system If its rain from leaking into your house because of rising water around your foundation, only flood insurance will cover that. Any pipe leak or roof leak your home owners insurance will cover that.call a pro in to fix it. They will know exactly w... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp I stopped using a $3000 CD player over 10 years ago. Mac mini running pure music or audirvana sounded better. I used to use XLD but switched to MAX.Disk drives for music are fine to use, SSD’s are way over kill. I used to market enterprise SSD’s f... | |
| Which Amp to complete my system? Why not try the psa bhk 250 signature. I really like mine | |
| How do you know what a good speaker is? N80 - We are different but probably more in common than we would think. My point was that MOST people will put down $50k to hundreds of thousands of dollars on a car and they don't know much about the true specs of the car. Sure they know that it ... | |
| How do you know what a good speaker is? By listening with your ears! Measurements (most of them) are worthless. I need to know how efficient the speaker is so I know if I’m going to need a different amp or if my existing setup will work. If I like a pair of speakers that are 65db effici... | |
| Audiogon’s transaction fees It’s so easy. In the drop down icon on the top right, click that and then click sell. It’s shows a table describing the listing cost with the associated cost of the item for sale. For example, if you are selling an item between $0 and $999, your c... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. IMO, if you don’t get a fpga based dac or it doesn’t have a network card built in, you are wasting your money. Either the ps audio DS or DS jr dac will blow away the benchmark or the Ayre. Compare the functions of each dac. If you want a cold soun... | |
| So I have a DAC; now what Player should I look at? Why do you need a streamer? Most people who buy a streamer have it in their audio room and hooked up to their dac using usb which is a terrible interface. I use a Mac mini with 26TB of RAID disks for my ripped and purchased hires music running Roo... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. I have some vinyl albums that sound much better than the redbook cd. I also have many (not all) hires/dsd that sound much better than vinyl. When I hear a great sounding MQA mix, this is much better than vinyl.my analog setup costs over 3x more th... | |
| Suggestion for best stereo amp ? Check out the ps audio bhk 250 signature. I got a new one a few months ago and am very happy with it. |