ghdprentice
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| Flatscreen between speakers +1 Heavy wool rug. | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" @sns Does a single reference system exist? Well no, but there are many that are really close. Some folks and companies are trying to reproduce the real thing and some are trying to make really great sounding audio systems. Very different goal... | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" @tomcy6 +1 Listening skills... absolutely. I occasionally get together with some folks that have excellent listening skills. There is no bias and preferences in the observations and conclusions. We exchange critical analysis of the sound... then ... | |
| Finally! I Made An Informed Choice It changed cache to cash. "Shall we play a game?" ...."How about Global Thermonuclear War?" | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" For me. Virtually my entire audiophile life over fifty years was by myself. It’s hard to blindly go up to your system and randomly switch something. Occasionally I would have dealers switch stuff without me knowing… but good analysis requires a co... | |
| Informed/Insightful information requested on Tannoy GRF loudspeakers I’d drop $500 into a quick trip to hear them. Out early morning Saturday… back Saturday night. Probably a five minute decision… but worth days of speculation. | |
| What type of speaker would sound better? There are many choices… you have to match the flavor of sound that pleases you as well as pick and choose the very best. So, are you spending the same on both? So $5K on mid-tier 3 way or $5K on a high end 2 way? Assuming careful choice then u... | |
| SACD v Streaming If your SACD player costs ~$10K then you should be able to get similar sonic performance (by carefully choosing) for around $10K - $12K. | |
| Finally! I Made An Informed Choice @noromance Thanks... more like a autocorrect slip... but yes. | |
| Need New amp or integrated...have some options You like to gamble? Sounds like it. Any decision you make in your current state of mind is going to be rolling dice with about 25 sides. There are so many flavors of sound. Also, with diligence and care in choosing the right sounding kind of amp i... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? I recommend you get Sim Moon monoblocks. If you like the Moon sound... well the Mac sound is very different. If you want monoblocks... get monoblocks... not a bridged compromise. In high end audio every tiny detail matters. Monoblocks are designed... | |
| Don't Neglect to check your Caps! Capacitor. | |
| Bluesound node confusion I needed something to break in an amp. So I bought a 2021 Bluesound Node... https://www.amazon.com/Bluesound-Wireless-Multi-Room-Hi-Res-Streamer/dp/B0937GTQ78/ref=sr_1_3_pp?crid=2XC3IXURMNNIX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._yGgKgwX75uiLaJXrgJoGhOUXo9OR7lZs... | |
| Finally! I Made An Informed Choice Congratulations on your purchase of your Lumin. Obviously you are someone that researches very deeply. High end streamers can be very insensitive to their input since they isolate and cash the bits If yours is not operational. Then just use an w... | |
| Aurender Qobuz connect I had to look that up. Since I have two Aurender streamers which I stream Qobuz natively for the last few years. I believe this allows you to control your Aurender streamer from the Qobuz app (view and stream music). That is instead of getting i... |