ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
Ground loop hum Congratulations! Glad to hear you found it. This is one of the great reasons to post your system under virtual systems. I bet this would have been recommended very quickly if someone had seen photos of your system. Words unfortunately only ident... | |
CD's or Vinyl? @jettyfat23232 Cool. What is your CD player? | |
COAX Cable Recommendations.... need some glitter OP ..."It in my mind, proved to me that the handling of the digital stream is just as important as the analogue stream." Back in the late 80's I got a two box CD player. Just to happily prove to myself that a digital interconnect couldn't possibl... | |
Ground loop hum Do you have parts of your system plugged into a different duplex receptacle from the rest? That can create a ground loop. Plug everything into one (you'll have to use a power conditioner or power strips). If it goes away... that the problem. I had... | |
Distortion Distortion Distortion I’m 73. I have a high end system. I became very sensitive to distortion when in my 30's... not the measured kind... the stuff that comes out of speakers from electronic components. I have never really been able to correlate measured distortion wi... | |
Is More Better? Just a question of what you want out of your system / what kind of music do you listen to. Typically subwoofers are carefully feathered in at the frequency of the main speakers have the bass drop off and just make up for the small volume and low... | |
McIntosh amp Power tube replacements needed How many hours do you have on your tubes? Do you have 2,000 hours on them? That is their recommended replacement time. Hmm, that will add up. Even at $60 / tube. My amp (ARC 160s) has 2,850 hours on the tubes, recommended changing tubes at 3,000... | |
Just got a pair of Apple AirPod Pro 2’s for my birthday I have had several AirPods ones... and now 2 USBC. The new ones sound notably better... more bass than earlier models. I use them two to five hours a day. I listen while walking the dogs and my daily bike rides as well as yard work. Typically boo... | |
Streamer Options Needed Aurender offers outstanding sound quality and the Conductor App which runs on phones, iPads, and MacPro... I guess a MacMini as well. I have two Aurender after trying Aurlic, Grimm, BlueSound, and Linn and some other streamers. Audiophile quality ... | |
Vinyl Warm Up Time @pkatsuleas +1 on YES. Evey time I take out one of their albums, I typically am put off by the sound quality, that I stop and put it away. | |
Suggestions for a holographic preamp? OP, Sounds like you may simply want a system that images well... not necessarily holographic. Holographic has such depth of soundstage and pinpoint imaging that instruments are suspended in three dimensions. So for instance an instrument can b... | |
Focals latest - Cat Houses? I would guess the designer is Luc Besson.... director of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planet and The Fifth Element. | |
Suggestions for a holographic preamp? Your choices are within the realm of middle of the road sounding preamps. You want to look at the categories that define what you are looking for: #1 Burmester. Also dCs and Roland with the right speakers. Holographic... immense sound field not... | |
Cryogenic Treatment of Tubes, and why you should not. @mulveling Same with me. I think I checked Cryo a couple times. But never did a comparison. Never replaced a tube and thought wow that is better and went back and figured out it way Cryo treated. So, I really have no idea. | |
Focals latest - Cat Houses? @erik_squires +1 That is funny. With respect to the soldiers. But I just read a detailed book on the history of Viet Nam which included the Battle of Dien Biem Phu. Situated in a large valley the French set up their position... the General sai... |