ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| The time has come and I request advice... My personal judgment on Roon is from personal experience with it (complicated) and forty years of implementing information technology. I have experienced generations of operating systems, hardware, and dozens and dozens of software suites and hund... | |
| Improving a stone rack I have a granite amp stand. I found it effective to place vibrapods (there are many alternatives) under the granite to isolate the slab, then springs between the component and the slab. So, micro vibrations do not get transmitted into the slab fro... | |
| The time has come and I request advice... +1 Aurender. I would not go the Roon route, costs, adds complications, not much of a long term future. Aurender Conductor app is well regarded. It is improving as well. | |
| Advice and recommendations needed for a turntable rig... I would look at VPI. The VPI Scout 21 would be a good choice. My first foray into high end tables was a VPI. It was a great choice. I think I prefer heavy tables overall. | |
| Records and CDs OP, 👍 | |
| Has anyone abandoned stereo for atmos for music? Op, 👍 | |
| Handling Heavy Amps @jfrmusic 😊 @aewarren 😂 @pindac Wow, a social high end audio guy. Didn’t think one existed. The Venn diagram of audiophile does not intersect with that of social humans. I think I have had four folks over to hear my system in twenty years. | |
| I am about to embark on my next upgrade journey It is worth taking some time and listening to some different speakers. If you want very musical speakers then I would recommend looking for some used Sonus Faber Olympica 1 or Olympica Nova 1. These are very musical. Focal tends to be really detai... | |
| Fritz Carrera 7 Be and 300B power amp? Some thoughts from my experiences with 300b. I was curious about 300b tube sound. But they were never going to power my main system. So, instead I chose to have them power my headphone system. Turned out to be a great choice for me. This gave ... | |
| Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs? I found that when I got my first high end turntable (some thirty years now) and cartridge the surface noice dropped so substantially that for all practical purposes it seemed to diappear. Most of my albums are in excellent condition although proba... | |
| full range or mini's and a sub OP, You ask a great question. +1 to @erik_squires. The answer is a huge it depends. It will depend on the room and a lot about your budget and values in sound. Either can disappear. There are so many important aspects to the sound of a syst... | |
| Older Power Cables There have been some big improvements in power cords in the last couple decades and a lot in the last few years. Find a way to borrow an Audio Quest Storm series power cord. Then you can move it from component to component to get a feel for the di... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps OP, 👍🎉 Just out of interest. Why are folks moving amps and speakers?. Typically I buy an amp or speaker… place it (even heavy speakers are easy to walk for adjustment) and not touch it for ten years or more. What are you guys doing? Moving to... | |
| Has anyone abandoned stereo for atmos for music? For those with sound quality as the priority for music will have a two channel system for music and a home theater. I do. The difference in sound quality for music given the same investment level in two channel vs multichannel is huge. The num... | |
| Power cable Advice... @steakster Yes my trip down was very similar… lots of water fights. But we stayed in the boats. That seemed safer. |