ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Streamers with tube output stage? I don’t know of any. | |
| Cables for Aurender N150 I use DHLabs on my Aurrender N100. | |
| Time of Day for best Sound For me over the decades it is at night…after 11PM… particularly Sunday night. My belief is a more stable power grid and reduction in vibrations as no truck of car traffic. | |
| Service After the Sale Service is very important to me. While I never expect to use it. This is one of the reasons I buy all high end equipment through a dealer. I bought a new amp, and while it sounded exceptional, one of the meters wasn’t quite right. So my dealer... | |
| Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ? @mahgister 👍 | |
| Value of a premium Ethernet cable @akg_ca ”…So….I recently did that cable direct bakeoff myself, and the audio improvements were immediate .”… +1 | |
| Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ? @mahgister ”…It is generally way less costlier to learn acoustic and mechanical and electrical embeddings than to purchase an upgrade ...”. Sure… but It really depends on your lifestyle. When I was working I typically worked more than sixty hour... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @designsfx 👍 | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? @kennyc I remember pennys in fuse box… not often fortunately. I also remember getting shocked all the time when changing fuses…. Which seemed to happen a lot back then. | |
| Best set-up under $20K @vthokie83 “…My first recommendation would be getting rid of Airplay streaming…” +1 Absolutely. Airplay is simply a terrible transmission medium. A real component streamer will be required before starting to upgrade something else. I don’t reco... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations I recommend DHLabs Q-10. DHLabs does very high quality very cost effective cables. I recommend not biwiring… you want to put the highest quality cable you can for the money. Biamping can make a big difference, I haven’t heard much if any differenc... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @designsfx Thanks for the recommendation of: Steven Wilson- The Raven That Refused To Sing… more melodious version of King Crimson. Excellent album. | |
| Stenheim Alumine 3 vs. Sonus Faber Amati G5 OP, My Amati Traditional throw a sound stage beyond the speakers on both sides and deep behind the wall behind them. The speakers are nearly five feet from the rear wall. The speakers disappear. It took effort to get here. I started with the ... | |
| You’re An Independent Dealer, Which Companies And What Products Would You Represent? From experience with several small dealers that have built up a sizable / respectable business over the 20 years. Rega Rotel Audio Research B&W Pass McIntosh Sonus Faber luxman DynAudio Nordost Cardas Most of these brands ... | |
| The Ultimate Audio Modification: Golden Ears Just a couple general comments. I also have been in the pursuit of the high end for fifty years. In general, I have read professional reviews continuously. The core has been The Absolute Sound and Stereophile, adding more recently HiFi+. In gene... |