ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Help me pick a Dac It could be either your streamer or your DAC. I haven’t heard your DAC. If you read all the professional reviews of your DAC and what they say is what you like then I would upgrade to a better streamer. I recommend a used Aurender N100. This would... | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? My immediate reaction was, it’s your streamer. Then I looked at your streamer. I had a Grimm in my system for a while. It sounded very good, definitely worth the money. Sonically it was not quite as good as mine… but it was much less expensive. B... | |
| New streamer needed I recommend a used Aurrender N100. But any Aurender you can afford. I own two. If you do not have the upgraded power supply for your DAC, I would also recommend that. I have heard the N100 against streamers of a lot greater value and besting the... | |
| AI (Audiogon Intelligence) I would think that Audiogon was one of the sources that ChatGPT was trained on. The dataset it was trained on was absolutely enormous. Chat GPT does a pretty good job on questions like “what are the sound characteristics of say McIntosh equipment.... | |
| Opinions on NAD please NAD makes really good entry level gear (to high end audio). Not a bunch of extra functions you don’t need, but solidly built, and constructed for good sound quality. I gave a friend of mine one I had over 35 years and it sounded much better than w... | |
| Intermittent audio dropouts when streaming Qobuz Hi Res files on Lumin streamer The Aurrender’s Conductor app is very good and reliable. It is being upgraded bringing more functionality. Aurrender does not support Roon at this time. There is rumor they are going to. I am personally not a fan and suspect Roon’s life is limited... | |
| Intermittent audio dropouts when streaming Qobuz Hi Res files on Lumin streamer On the other hand I have not needed to reboot either of my two Aurrender ever… and they sound as good or better than physical media. | |
| Aurender Model Choices Ooh. I would have taken the Cardas offer. That is a good cable. I tried Blue Jeans a couple times just to see if they were any better than other common cheap interconnects and cables… they were not. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? My point of view is that it is a challenge to find speakers that perfectly match your specific sound quality values. It gets much harder by restricting yourself to a subset of speakers. | |
| Aurender Model Choices Congratulations. You will be very happy. The N20 is an outstanding sounding streamer. | |
| Intermittent audio dropouts when streaming Qobuz Hi Res files on Lumin streamer I had an Aurlic Aries G2 streamer that was always getting confused. It actually had a setting to reboot nightly. I turned the function on. It helped. Yep, anytime exibiting problems: phones, watches, modems, routers, TV, Amazon’s TV boxes, toilets... | |
| Records and CDs Wow, I completely forgot about the stacked record changer. Hmm, I was thinking about VTA… then remember I used to have to tape a penny or a nickel to the tone arm to hold it down… yeah… nice warm tubes, but terrible record players. | |
| Replaced Everything, New Gears waiting to be installed... Congratulations! This really helps minimize the serial break in problem of incremental component upgrades. You get it all done at once. But since nothing is broke in… try not to draw conclusions before several hundred hours have elapsed. | |
| Cable upgrades OP, Thanks for your report on how it is going. Yes, the change from good power cords can be huge and really counterintuitive. | |
| Is tube sound vs solid state easier to distinguish using headphones? I have had both a headphone system and main speaker system for the last fifty years. I have constantly upgraded both systems as I gained experience and wealth. I have spent an enormous amount of time listening to headphone systems, first as an exp... |