ghdprentice
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| 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... | |
| Building a dedicated listening room I accidentally bought a house with an outstanding audio room. My dealer says it is one of the best two he has ever heard. He has been in the high end business for over 20 years and installs many megabuck systems in custom rooms. It is about as irr... | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results Congratulations. Yes, trying it if you own a preamp is a great idea. Also, if your first impressions are positive, then keeping your preamp for a while is also a good idea. Sometimes longer termed listening reveals things that may not have ... | |
| Why do people like reel to reel players? @mitch4t That makes great sense to me. | |
| Duplicate Serial Numbers What brand of speakers? Low end? I assume. This is the mark of poor manufacturing practices at best. If there are actually two sets on the market which came to light by a random person (no offense to you)… then there are dozens or hundreds on ... | |
| What to ask when buying used speakers? @zlone Excellent. Good to hear. I have purchased speaker without hearing them, but I was very familiar with their sound and knew exactly what to expect. A trip to weed through them is exactly the right thing to do. | |
| Why do people like reel to reel players? @mitch4t 😊 I think you have something there. | |
| Center channel inter connect cable. Interesting question. While 85% of the sound in home theater comes from the center channel… one is highly distracted from the sound by the video. When listening to two channel… you are completely immersed in the sound… so, upgrading these make sen... | |
| Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting Yes, interesting article… he is wrong… completely. While, there is likely to be a continuing “nostalgia” market for vinyl, the renaissance for vinyl was because the CD / digital was not even close to competing in sound quality of vinyl since it’s ... | |
| Cable length question It depends. What kind of system do you have? Speakers, components, venue? There is a place under your userID to put photos and ID your components. This would help us help you. If you are working to achieve the absolute best sound… a strategy over... | |
| Speaker and amp advice needed I own Sonus Faber Amati and previously Olympica. I can highly recommend the Amati. There is nothing too big about them, they are only 46” high. You can see them in my audio room in my virtual system. Focal are a very different sounding speaker and... |