ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Back to the DAC I definitely agree that combined DAC and streamer is not a good idea. Typically you will get one strong component and one weak one. Exam-Les of this is the Lina (good DAC poor streamer) and the Aurender lines (great streamers, ok DACs). For DA... | |
| Speakers, floor standing or Bookshelfs I personally prefer to have high quality full range speakers… without subs. Although I have had floor standards with two subs for about thirty years. Good quality floor standers are designed for coherent sound across the spectrum. Then there ... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Definitely look at Nessie. Beautifully constructed, quiet and effective. I replaced my VPI a few years ago. The difference was like night and day. | |
| Can a power amp have too much power, risking damage to a speaker? I’ve always had power amps that far exceeded the power handling capacity of my speakers. Never damaged a speakers. Particularly with solid state amps most speakers benefit from having large excess capacity, yielding more solidity. As my systems g... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati G5 vs Lilium I have heard them both and own Amati Traditional. I guess I have to say definitely worth the money. I have to sidestep the categorization because of the subjectivity. The sound quality is higher… more dynamic, with greater impact and nuance, anlso... | |
| How does speaker placement affect the width of the soundstage? In a word, yes… big time. The space between the speakers, toe in… distance from listener, how close to wall behind, side wall distance and the reflectivity of the wall behind the speaker. Doing a good job of tuning them is a long termed persui... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations I’d have a look at Totem. They have several bookshelf speakers. I have a pair of Mites and a matching mini sub. They are wonderfully punchy and natural… beautifully crafted. Mine are cherry they are simply stunning and do great off center. Perfect... | |
| Opinions on PS Audio Direct Stream DAC (Mk 1) Op, I have found that with the exception of the very grossest measures like wpc (that is also doubling into lower impedance) measurements are largely meaningless. I mean seriously. I do not look at them. Waste of time. Early on in my pursui... | |
| Ethernet Cables - what are you using and why? DHLabs from wifi extenders to Aurender W20SE and N100. Have tried a number of equivalent and less expensive. One notably more expensive one sounded notably poor. But in general, with my W20SE the difference was small in comparison with interconnec... | |
| All in one unit for headphones- help me decide @v-fi +1 Very few integrated components with speaker outputs have quality headphone outputs… even on $10K units. I have heard some people say there are some. But I have never heard one. So I would definitely nick the two bottom ones. | |
| Measurement Bias Any measurement bias disappeared very quickly when I got into high end audio fifty years ago. My eyes would flit from watts per channel specs, distortion, etc. and what I heard and that was the end of it. There was virtually no correlation between... | |
| Sonus Faber Nove II or III I have found with SF the higher up the hierarchy the greater the depth and fullness of the sound and the lower the volume required to be satisfying. I would say the speakers you contemplate would be a very significant upgrade and would make you ve... | |
| Music first or sound first? Sound while upgrading and music in the years between. although that isn’t entirely correct because when I’m listening to the sound during upgrade, I’m also making sure the music is coming through since that is the point. Much of musicality is Rhyt... | |
| 300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas I find my system completely satisfying at 70 - 80 or below. Additionally safety standards are guidance and I would prefer to be no where near the limits, they easily could be too high as well as low. I would not want to put my hearing in jeopardy.... | |
| Listening position/speaker position That does not sound remotely like a good idea. I’m guessing he’s trying to see if he can get you to move everything. You loose normal bass reinforcement and add rear reflection problem. If I were to comment on your setup. I think your tria... |