rbstehno
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| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued I grew up playing drums to heavy metal/acid rock or whatever you wanted to call it. We played deep purple, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and others hard rock material. Today, I mostly listen to jazz/blues/hard rock and progressive rock. The group ... | |
| System assessment... Room is the most important thing to consider 1st. Then synergy between speakers to room size, amp to speakers, amp to preamp, phono tt/arm/cartridge, cartridge to phono preamp, then cables. I’ve used equalizers decades ago, and was using dsp for ... | |
| How to Connect DAC's USB Port to Ethernet Cable I think dsd sounds much better than 24/192. I would stick with Ethernet with dsd. USB you will degrade the sound quality | |
| Enough is Enough I had 1/2 dozen hi end dealers in around a big city I lived in. A bunch of us were part of an audio club that met 1 or 2 times a month listening to people’s setup as well as finding new artists/groups. On many occasions, at 10pm on my way home, I ... | |
| Integrated Amplifier Recommendations Needed I’ve owned over a dozen integrated amps. I would go with more than 100 watts if solid state, 100 watts tube would be ok. I have 90db speakers and use a 250 watt separate amp. Here are some of the integrated amps I’ve owned: McIntosh 6500, Hegel h... | |
| Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done? I had some large Usher speakers for my large audio rooms then I moved to a new house with a 16’ audio rooms. I tried using dsp to tame the bass for 3 years. I got it where it was ok sounding but something was missing. I also had the super bass tra... | |
| Downsizing from tower to bookshelf So I did exactly what you are doing. I have a nice pair of usher mini-X with the DMD tweeters. They sounded pretty good in my smaller room but something was missing. So I started looking at smaller floorstanding speakers and went with the revel f2... | |
| System assessment... Maybe it’s your room. You never mentioned if it was treated or not. Do you have tiled/wood floors? Windows? These things would make your room more sterile sounding. | |
| Enough is Enough In many decades, I have been at a couple of dealers that were any good. Most of them will tell you that their stuff is the best, even here on agon. I attend shows and when I find something I like, I will bring it home along with others to auditio... | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? Ghdprentice-I was in the same boat as you 5 or 6 years ago. I had a $15k tt setup with hundreds of albums. This is when I used Ethernet to the dac. I would have to spend much more on my tt setup to better the sound plus you still had the overhead ... | |
| Question on Speaker Placement The back wall is important because sound will bounce off the wall back to the listener. You want symmetry in your room because now, 1 of your speakers will get reinforcement from the back wall and the other speaker won’t. If it’s for casual liste... | |
| PSAudio Directstream DAC M-1 (refurb) vs Denafrips Venus II. Quick decision needed! I never had any problems with my bridge II card. If we had a storm and had a power outage, I had to reboot the dac and everything was fine. Ethernet was better than all the other dacs I auditioned and what my friends auditioned. I then moved to th... | |
| Active Wireless speaker, Dynaudio, Buchardt or Sonus Faber? Check out the Kef LS60. I auditioned them and if I didn’t have over $50k in electronics, I probably would get a pair. | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? I don’t reply to cable naysayers, if you can’t hear a difference between cables, no sense talking anything audio to you. | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? USB is a terrible interface to a dac. Ethernet is better and i2s is even better. Most won’t know this because they buy cheap stuff and the cheaper stuff doesn’t include Ethernet or i2s. For a decade, all your high end manufacturers provided a prop... |