ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| DAC vs Music Server My experience has been that once I have had a good DAC… not the be-all end-all… but good. Then the streamer makes by far the biggest difference. So for instance assume we’ll chosen a good $5K DAC and $5 Streamer, as you incrementally increase the ... | |
| Preamp advice Just a comment from my experience. I have never considered anything but sound quality in choosing preamps and amps in the over fifty years I have pursued high end audio. In that time and more than a dozen preamps and more than a dozen amps never h... | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers I should have thought of this before, but the Wilson WAMM Chronosonic would be very stable. While tall, they weigh 900 pounds each. Oh, they are a little more expensive. 😊 | |
| Advice regarding separate DAC purchase I would concentrate on the sound characteristics of the DAC and not the technology. Denfrips are highly regarded DACs for their price. I’ll let someone else chime in on the contrasting the two. I would not recommend going cheap on this. First, ... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @immatthewj Yes, me neither, but from my in depth studies on a dozen other things that shouldn’t matter, but do… little stuff that other folks with more experience than I recommend that don’t cost much, I’ll just do. Not worth the hours of fiddl... | |
| vibration control - cd player @sml19 Actually in the 1980’s there were relatively inexpensive vibration platforms that used small inner tubes inside cheap wood boxes… looking life a shelf. While they worked OK (no better as the cheap chipped wood box didn’t help). But you... | |
| recommend PRAT Integrated amplifiers (not Naim) Audio Research I-50 To a lessor extent by a lot, but significantly better than most solid state Pass INT-x I would also look at Conrad Johnson and VAC. Also, no, no, and. no. | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? Ones ears are a far more sensitive instrument than all of the commonly used measurements / charts taken together by an enormous amount. Trained ears / mind is an order of magnitude more sensitive. So 100% ears. There may be some top high en... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. I have been told many times by folks more knowledgeable than I that the best sound is from finger tight connection and using more will degrade the sound. I have never gotten curious enough to test this. I tighten just enough to stay on… which mean... | |
| JJ preamp tubes - repeated problems Audio Research extensively tests all their tubes. They have a huge room bristling with tubes being tested. I have never received a bad tube from them. | |
| Please be gentle with me! 🙏 Yes. It also sets him up into the contemporary world of streaming. Qobuz is the best sounding service with the most high resolution recordings. In addition this could be the example you need to start mapping out your future audio. While investmen... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @8th-note +1 I have compared red book CDs with Qobuz FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and they sound identical. | |
| Streaming Curious OP, So what is your current vinyl rig and phonostage… and the rest of your system? We really need to know to be of any help. There is a place to put photos and ID your equipment under create virtual systems. That would be really helpful. | |
| Using a streamer to DAC to power amp, should I insert an integrated I would agree that an integrated amplifier would be a good choice. If you are interested in very good sound quality then one with only an amp and preamp. An integrated all in one is unlikely to sound great unless it is something like a Linn. Cont... | |
| Change Revel BE driver color to black? I would trade them in for equivalent or better speakers with black cones. Paint will change one or more characteristics of the cones, magic marker would likely look uneven (every time I tried coloring something with a marker it has looked terrible). |