ghdprentice
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| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. That sounds a lot like asking a teenager if they cleaned their room and getting the answer that they thought about it. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Learning the nuances of sound can be a lifetime endeavor. To jumpstart it is helpful to listen to vastly different sounding systems and acoustic instruments and concerts. The former to expose you to differences, the latter to calibrate you to what... | |
| Mastersound 300b Compact-thoughts??? I wanted to experience the 300b sound. So I got the Woo 300b amp for my headphone system. I also put in Takatsuki tubes in them. Honestly my headphone system became incredible sounding. So much so that I had a hard time listening to my $70K main s... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter Cool. You have the enormous advantage of a really low noise floor. One of the great characteristics of my room is it is underground on three sides… it really helps quiet the ambient noise. You sound like you already are thinking about the righ... | |
| Solved my streaming grunge (inner detail) problem Great thing to know… a noisy thing near your system can cause problems. Something that was not common in the analog days. Sure there were hair driers… but the literal noise made it obvious. | |
| Help me with the next step after the Sony Hap 1zes… What is your current system, and the balance of your bank account? There is a place to put photos of your system and I’d your components. This would be really helpful, so we could be. Most of us have our systems shown so folks can tell where we ar... | |
| Campfire Trifecta cable recommendations Cardas cables and interconnnects are designed to address typical situations at different levels. At low levels of investment and / or highly detailed components the sound quality tends to be tipped towards the treble with a lot of high frequency h... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, I used to own Apogee. They were exceptionally great sounding speakers for the money… very worthy of much higher quality inputs than many speakers. While I don’t regret getting rid of them, they were exceptional. The baby grand and grand… even more... | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? I have been involved with standards and know many people who have been on standards committees for most of my career… most are information technology in the high technology industry… including working with lots of electrical engineers developing h... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, In general, I have to agree. It has been my observation that in ten years any component category advances make a very sizable and worthwhile improvement to upgrade. This does not mean the old stuff is not satisfying. The easiest for me to relat... | |
| ARC amp differences. While I agree tube gear is a little bit “fussy”… I would like to add a bit of nuance to that. The reason is that tube gear has that reputation… but high quality equipment like Audio Research will occasionally require re-tubing an very, very occ... | |
| Synergistic element copper good for power amp? I highly recommend looking at the Audio Quest Hurricane. Over the last couple years there has been a lot of buzz in the community around them. I had been trying to find the right power cord for my amps for nearly a year… being frustrated at each t... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. I think audiophile is primarily a passion and frame of mind. When you are truly passionate to get the best possible sound achievable… and people think you are crazy. Often the test is monetary. Because the percentage you are willing to commit to ... | |
| Best Buy Says Bye-Bye to DVDs @lalitk Looks like we have the same monitor. I got rid of all of my DVDs… leaving about 4 or 500 blue rays. Once in a while we will pull out a disk… no difference. | |
| Need advice on media player and or dacs If faced with a choice between an Auralic Aries G2 and Grimm… definitely the Grimm. I have had both in my system. Although for that money I would go for an Aurrender N20. Each more natural in the high end. |