ahendler
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| Amp or speaker first, upgrade Find a pair of speakers that you can't live without. Speakers determine most of the sound of your system. Alan | |
| Berkeley Dac 2 or PS audio DSD or Schiit Yggs? Depends if you need DSD. If you don't the AudioGD Master7 is better then those you have named. I have heard the others and the Master7 is simply the best. I like it better then a DC stack. It will do up to 24/192Alan | |
| Researching Preamps Look at the Shindo Auriges with phono stage. Great preamp. Super quiteAlan | |
| The illusion of soundstage. If you put your drivers out of phase with each other you will get sound all over the place. Q-Sound is software that manipulates phase to put sound beyond your speakers , even behind youAlan | |
| Synergistic Research HFT's Put the tonearm HFT's on my Rega tonearm with Ortofon Bronze cartridge. Nothing. No audible change in sound. Had the Shatki holograms in my room for a year. Took them out of the room and the sound improved. Also played around with a RR-777. Worthl... | |
| I used to think passive preamps were superior to active preamps given right the setup, but bdp24Most of what you say is not true of transformer based passives. I had a great Sonic Euphoria passive that used autotransformers and it was great However my Shindo preamp is betterAlan | |
| Anyone Had Experience with USB Ground Isolators? It generates its own 5V. Its whole purpose is to isolate the dac from the computer. It also regenerates the data signal.Alan | |
| Anyone Had Experience with USB Ground Isolators? I second the IntonaIt is called a galvonic isolater and of all the devices the only one that made a significant improvement in soundOrder on the internet directly from ItonaAlan | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording I think what is interesting is how many of those early digital recordings that we hated played today sound pretty goodAlan | |
| Shindo Aurieges with Pass Labs x250.5 The impedance mismatch was there when I listened to the Auriges/Pass combo and as I said it sounded outstanding. Sometimes you have to try the combination no matter what theory said. Listening trumps theory most of the timeAlan | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Two people above wrote about belden and Western Electric cable. I have removed some Sablon Pantella adn Crystal cable interconnects and replaced with a Beldin and Western electric interconnect. Replaced a High Diamond 8 speaker cable with a 14 Gau... | |
| Shindo Aurieges with Pass Labs x250.5 A friend a couple of years ago brought a smaller Pass labs Power amp ( don't remember the model) Hooked it up to my Auriges. It was really very nice. I would think this would be a good comboAlan | |
| Best DAC for over 2000 If you don't need DSD the Audio-GD Master 7 ($2400) is the best dac I have ever heard and yes I have heard the Direct streamAlan | |
| Your single favorite component My Maggie 3.6 speakers. The sound of your system is mostly determined by the speakers and I love my MaggiesAlan | |
| engineering mistakes on recordings Most of the young engineers today have had no experience recording a whole band, group or orchestra at the same time so when they go to mix the individually recorded instruments they have no feel for what that shoul sound like. When I started in 1... |