ghdprentice
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| Test Congratulations. Anything you did in particular that brought your rig to its current level of performance? Great album, I'm listening to it now. Great liner notes about the speed wars and background. One of the great albums recorded in the '57... | |
| Best practices for speaker cabinet care I have seven B&W 800 series speakers and they are good with lemon oil. As @oddiofyl points out some are have many coats of varnish like Sonus Faber I only use a swifter on mine. I use white gloves is I move them. They have the most beautiful f... | |
| Odd DAC Pricing Ive listened to quite a few Linn's. A friend bought one, then upgraded. They are quite good. | |
| plinth material I'd have a look at the new Linn plinth. I have heard from a friend that is sounds great... maybe not enough for me to justify buying. Might help with material and construction. | |
| Odd DAC Pricing @verdantaudio "...It is competitive at is price of $13k. " +1 I find this true to be more often than not. Accounting for differences in flavors (house sound) anyone making a component for over $3-5K and up has done a lot of comparisons and must ... | |
| Is there a ROON sound? I would imagine that significant audible sound differences come from the hardware chain and not so much the software. It is possible to compare on cheap noisy computers and inexpensive audio equipment and incredibly high quality audio equipment...... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers @ticat @dayglow +1 | |
| Finally Bought Chord Qutest Congratulations! I bet there is lots of improvement ahead and many hundreds of hours of enjoyment! | |
| Tube Pre-amp Suggestions. @jasonbourne71 +1 Other good options used Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, VAC, or Zesto preamps. Worth it here to stretch and get an outstanding used preamp. | |
| Need advice with matching amp with speakers It is really important to identify speakers who’s sound qualities appeal to you, then to verify your amp is up to the task and is sonically compatible. While all components matter... some mater more... and speaker the most. So, you need to identif... | |
| Is there a ROON sound? @dayglow If you mean best physical media sources as in $50K+ turntables in $500K systems I can agree. But in the $5K - $25K+ not true any more. Streaming can provide as high or higher sound quality than vinyl or CD. I own and have heard other les... | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" @sns +1 Same journey for me, different paths. Yes also to the switching. It isn't as if you are switching the reproduction of one tone. It is a constant changing barrage of different sounds. Even focusing on a drumstick hitting a drum, each i... | |
| Well Recorded Classical Symphonic Recordings OP, Yep that Telarc recording of Shostokovic's 5 & 9th is excellent. Great recording and performance. | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" @newton_john Good to hear about your Linn experience. I have noticed a trend (I think) in more equipment getting better rhythm and pace. I noticed it in the most recent generations of Pass x and integrated amps. I am happy to hear Linn amps are ... | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" @sns Responding to your comment up a few posts on why so many different sounding systems... Well, I think most folks don't start off with the big picture. I certainly did not. I had a system... I loved the sound of a kick drum, and loved to cra... |