rbstehno
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| Best Rocking Speakers 15K and Under Check out Usher, the Mini Dancer II's, BE-10, BE-20, or the X-towers. I have both the Mini Dancer II's and recently moved up the chain to the X-towers. Fantastic speakers especially for the $$$$. | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense Prof, what you wrote really doesn't matter much. It's like somebody indicating that are an instant race car driver just because they bought a sports car. | |
| New Thread on Steve Hoffman website that says Audiogon sucks Bdp24-get a life. We don’t need idiotic posts like this on an audio forum.same for the rja post- just because he can’t hear the difference or doesn’t have decent equipment to hear differences between cables, everybody is an idiot that can. Big tur... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense Prof, not much I can say if you can’t hear a difference between a Home Depot cable and a synergistic research cable. That’s like saying you can’t hear a difference between a pioneer amp and Classe monoblocks. I have a 1 meter synergistic research ... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Just bought the McIntosh C47 preamp, very similar in performance to the C52 that was reviewed in the latest TAS. Very nice, much better than going straight from my dac to the Classe monoblocks. Plus I needed preamp since I also have a tt and a cd... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense The room is the area that you need to get right 1st. Most people don't treat the room and they think it sounds fantastic, they just don't know.Next, I would put SYNERGY as #10. If you go out and buy a nice Wilson or Magico speaker for $100,000, ar... | |
| Best balanced linestage/preamp for $4000 or less ??? Check out the McIntosh C47 for $4000. Check out the TAS review of the McIntosh C52 and you give up nothing in performance by going with the C47. | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? I wouldn't spend more than $500 on a dac without MQA. $7000 on a dac without MQA is foolish IMO. You might not like MQA right now (with the right equipment, it can sound fantastic), but if they make future improvements and then you want it, your $... | |
| Which is better - Hi end CD transport or Music server into DAC? Neither. The best setup is using a network card inside the dac, for example the Bridge II cars in the ps audio DS or the DCS network card. Sell all the so called ultimate usb cables, all you need is a good Ethernet cable (say cat7 or cat8 from aud... | |
| New Speakers up to $15k - The more I read the less I know! I would look at Totem and usher. I have had both and just moved up to the usher x-towers for a little less than $15k. The usher be-10 and be-20’s are also excellent sounding speakers. | |
| Ready to move onto next stage of streaming I have been down the paths of using a computer with an external dac and then replacing the computer with a dedicated streamer (auralic Aries) with a separate dac. Why do you want to use 2 boxes linked with an inferior usb cable when you can use an... | |
| Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!! You can only hope that they remove them. IMO they are worthless. Good or bad measurements doesn’t tell you if the unit sounds good or bad. The manufacturers stats should tell you enough if it will fit into your system or satisfy your needs at the ... | |
| Speaker Cable Upgrade... Advice Please I would go back to the AR and ps audio dac. Cables will not make a cold sounding system sound like a tube system. | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? I love it when somebody wants to convince the world that they are right by stating they talk to an engineer and he said blah blah blah! I don’t give a rats @$$ What an engineer says, if you have to rely on somebody else’s opinion then you don’t kn... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream JR If you don’t think the jr has enough output voltage, you can change the attenuator setting to high and you should have plenty of voltage to power your amps. Attenuator setting “in” is the low setting but it’s also the quietest. |