ghdprentice
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| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Identifying yourself and affiliation in your profile and in posts is the ethical thing to do. My opinion of someone that does not drops precipitously if I have to figure it out. There may be a rule or not… but if I have to figure it out, I would n... | |
| Ripping CDs Borrow one? Although it is time consuming. I had to look up your system again. Nice. But your streamer is no where near the quality of much of your system. If you get a much better streamer, there should be no sound advantage to ripped files. ... | |
| Ripping CDs Any old PC will do. No use in adding the function to a streamer. Everything from iTunes, purchased or free software will do it. Switch output format to FLAC before ripping. I would suggest always putting the max into a single function streamer. W... | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 A couple times I went to play a Quboz album in my library and a dialog box came up saying “15 songs (all) were no longer available would I like to remove them from my library?” I said no, and it went on to play them all. | |
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? As many have said… it depends. The recommended toe in, or not, is a starting point. My manufacturer recommends to start by crossing the beams behind your head by about 18”. Turns out in my room with my setup, no toe in results in the widest and d... | |
| Phono cable not caps to le with preamp? Sounds like maybe a defective phonostage. 🙁 | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 Conductor works well on the iPad as the OP says. This version of conductor is very new… a month or two, so it still has some bugs… fortunately I haven’t run into any of them. But there is enhanced access to cover art and album info… which over tim... | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 OP, Thanks for reporting your results. I’m very happy to hear your results. | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @tonywinga Thank you for sharing your observations. You have a wonderful system in a beautiful venue. I have a question. Does streaming as good or better than your CD player? Your beautiful vinyl rig? If not, you definitely owe it to yoursel... | |
| When you can't unhear ! Yes. I try not to bring anything home that I cannot afford if I actually stretch my finances. The last time this happened to me I was not in the market for a DAC and my dealer brought one over. I had a Sim Moon 650D with the external power supp... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? @patrickcarey Great story. Thanks. That is how it starts and over time better components allow greater positive effect of wires… and it goes on and on. | |
| Phono cable not caps to le with preamp? Yes, ground. Need to run a ground from the turntable to the phonostage. Long ago I had a turntable without a grounding wire. I found a nut connected to the chassis on the bottom of the turntable and ran to the ground connector on the phono stage. ... | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade Good question. It looks like you have a carefully chosen system. Looks nice as well. Typically I would immediately say, save up for an Aurrender N200. But I think, given your other equipment the Innuos Pulse Mini would fit right in. So unless ... | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results @audphile1 👍😊 | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? The way I look at it is that time invested in choosing, configuring and tweaking can result in a much better sounding system. So, let’s say you go all out and invest 1,000 hours and $5K or $10K… invest the same huge amount of time (1,000 hours) an... |