erikminer

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What's with the buyers these days??
To the question "What's your best price" my answer is fairly simple: "I've listed it at my best price. I'm not interested in negotiating against myself, so please make me a reasonable offer and I'll consider it"Seems to help weed out the tire kick... 
Why so underwhelmed by Revel F208 audition???
The OP could have saved him self an awful lot of time if he'd botherd to ask the dealer if the speakers were broken.. 
dbPoweramp For Mac Released
I've been using XLD for years.. I see no reason to spend $$ on Dbpoweramp to do the same thing.. 
Bookshelf Speakers with the decent bass
Kef R300's do bass, and everything else very well.. 
Audio Alchemy DDS pro, Theta Digital Pearl or EAD
I think they are all terrible choices since they are all very old and will in all likelihood not have parts available when they break, which you can be assured of since they are so old. I'd look at an Oppo. 
DAC for Sonos Connect
Keep on eye on the listings here, never know what'll show up :-) 
USB cable hype
Have you listened to any? 
What are your favorite speaker finishes?
Big fan of any really figured woods, Birdseye maple is a favorite of mine. Also like Rosewood, Yew, Ebony.. I also like some of the super deep looking high gloss finishes. 
Perpetual Technologies p1A p3A
Tazzy.. Digital has made some pretty significant improvements in 7 years. That said if I was going to jump back into the hobby I'd take a bigger look at my system by listening to new speakers first, just as if I was starting to build a new system ... 
Monolith III's or CLS IIZ's Pros and Cons
CLS's with subs is a way better setup. All the hybrid ML have issues with how high they cross over the woofers. Not in that the crossover is obvious but it is that the tonality between the two is so different.. Remember they crossover the panel in... 
USB SQ, what can one expect
Just to mention, USB cables behave differently between different components.. I recently auditioned several and none sounded to me the way reviewers and other users described them. Unless someone has the exact same output and input devices their o... 
Maggie Disappointment
I don't understand.. The 1.7 are relatively cheap at $1995.00 a pair list price. You listened to them at the dealer and loved them. As long as you can set them up correctly in your home ( room behind them etc) why not just buy them? Worst thing th... 
help a rookie; 8-year-old laptop music server died
Personally I'd bag the laptop and look at a dedicated streamer of some type, especially if you are computer adverse. It'll probably sound better and be way less of a pita 
Has anyone heard the NEW Kef Reference speakers
I'm thinking of a pair if Reference 3.. And fyi the Reference series are built and designed in England, not China.. And also fwiw I have a pair of R300's and they may be made in China but they sure don't look it or sound like it! 
Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD
@agear.. I've been following that dev chat thread for a while now.. Seems that everyone that's heard the Totaldac server is in love with it and that the Moon a Mind is great too except the control point for it sucks. The Aries seems to not fair as...