ghdprentice
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| Blue Jeans Cable Iconoclast I have tried Blue Jean cables a few years ago. Over my 50 years pursuing high end audio, I have spent many hundreds of hours evaluating cables and their impact. I have a good system and can pretty quickly characterized the impact of interconnects ... | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation OP “…Thinking I will turn them on when listening in the morning casually, shut them off while at work, turn them on when I get back, and shut off when I go to bed…” This is a pretty good plan. You might also start a study to learn how much war... | |
| How best to arrange cables in this room... @carlsbad2 Yes, always trade offs. Best would be to use monoblocks located next to speakers and use long interconnects. I am really luck my system is no longer in a common area. | |
| Table top DAC and Amp advice needed Yes, for low budget gear, Schiit is an excellent choice. I have a few around for misc duty. | |
| How best to arrange cables in this room... @carlsbad2 +1 …”Equal length cables are always recommended, I’ve played with un-equal length and never been able to hear the difference. ” I have to agree. While I did not do this when I was tremendously experienced with high end audio.... | |
| Is there miracles in audio experience ? 😊👌 | |
| Is there miracles in audio experience ? I think I know what you mean, but we would use very different language. I only use the word miracle in fun. If I do something well, that I typically do poorly, “It’s a miracle I did it correctly”! In reality, I was trained and worked as a scienti... | |
| Primer on SSD and internal hard drives An SSD drive is very likely to sound better than a hard drive. But a high quality streamer will gather the music off the hard drive and shut it down when playing. With a high quality streamer there should be no difference in sound quality betw... | |
| Is Aurender N10 still a good option @willywonka The new N30SA is newer… however the W20SE is still made and sounds better (not by a huge amount… I imagine some folks would prefer not having a battery, which I am sure is why they released it). The N30SA does not use a battery li... | |
| Benchmark or McIntosh.... 👍 outstanding! | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation @riie 😊 | |
| Is Aurender N10 still a good option The N10 is a very good streamer. There have been sound quality improvements in the next generation. Some folks have said the N200 and N10 sound very similar. But the N10 is a fully fleshed out streamer. I would buy the N10. Then in ten years or so... | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? I think it most often happens with budget systems. This happened to me when I was just starting off. If you have high quality components, typically a better cable or interconnect will be more transparent and impart less of a tonal shift… so great ... | |
| DAC's from the past, are any of them really worth much today? I agree that DACs have made a lot of progress… but be careful. There is no question there are significant differences in budget DACs and high end DACs. Taking for example Schiit Yggdrasil as a budget DAC and >$5K (depending on exact brand) like... | |
| Why Streaming Service Sounds ‘Flat’ vs Tune In /Local FM /Radio Paradise I would recommend any Aurrender streamer. If you can’t afford a new one, get a used one. I have tried them at every level and own a N100 and their flagship W20SE now. I have also tried a number in between the $3K and $22K range… each significant j... |