ghdprentice
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| upgrade path from my current speakers? (Dynaudio Special Forty) Sounds like the DynAudio is the place to start. Sounds like you are doing fairly fast semirandom equipment swapping. That makes getting where you want to go nearly impossible. You need to start with a good set of speakers and then upgrade the elec... | |
| Best Buy Says Bye-Bye to DVDs It is very predictable yes. But the sound quality you get from a DVD or Blue Ray vs streaming is just like the comparison between CD and analog and streaming. It depends on your equipment. Careful choice of equipment and streaming sounds as good a... | |
| Balanced XLR vs RCA for phono stage @tokushi Nice write up. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? A friend of mine was considering buying Mogami interconnects and to help out I did a lot of research. My conclusion, only from research, was that the Mogami interconnects are worth their price… meaning that if they cost $100 their sound quality is... | |
| Streamer Operating System Storage: SSD vs EEPROM? @lalitk Thank you. That is really useful. I was aware that my two Aurrender’s were extremely good at isolating playback from my network, helpful to see that statement from them. My Aurrender W20SE is really amazing. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? @atmasphere I appreciate your long and sometimes technical discussion of why diffferent XLR interconnects don’t and shouldn’t matter. Sounds like you have an electrical engineering background. My generalizations come from listening to a numb... | |
| upgrade path from my current speakers? (Dynaudio Special Forty) Interesting question. That is a pretty large array of speakers. I think we need to look at the whole picture: all the electronics and venue. It would be really helpful… actually manditory (if we are to help) to see your system, there is a place to... | |
| REF5SE tubes The Tube Store. | |
| Speakers versus Balance vs Amplifier OP, Before the move, give your wife a huge bouquet of flowers… or if wealthy… some elaborate gift. Make her very happy. Then make the move. Or half the move. My partner knows this trick (she has a PhD in cognitive psychology)… and looks ar... | |
| Where do I go from here? 😊👍 | |
| ARC amp differences. @cundare2 Perhaps I have not communicated that well. I would not say the Vsi 75 is at all of a different class from the reference, they have very much the same sound… most of it. As you move up the differences are subtitle versus a different com... | |
| Is Van den Hul Frog Gold a good choice for my rig? Yes. But each time I upgraded, I first, researched the heck out of the current market to determine whether switching to a different company was appropriate, typically auditioning as well. Audio Research always led the pack. | |
| Where do I go from here? OP, Whether digital or analog sounds better these days is entirely a question of what equipment you are using. You simply must find the right equipment and you can get the full analog sound from streaming. Just because you compared this and that ... | |
| Picking a speakers The most important thing is to not mix brands… they have very different sounds. I think I would look at it this way. The HTM2 is a good substitute for the 4 until you can afford a 4. If you listen to two channel, then your left and right are t... | |
| Is Van den Hul Frog Gold a good choice for my rig? Congradulations! |