ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Qobuz email looks suspicious I always delete any remotely suspicious emails. Then I go to my browser and log on to the real companies site. There is never anything there. I have gotten fake emails from: Wells Fargo PayPal FBI Master Card Norton Microsoft and a number t... | |
| Streamer Selection - Thoughts Requested Please! Having owned a Aurlic and now owning two Aurender, I definitely recommend an Aurrender. Extremely high quality sound, built like audiophile equipment, fantastic service. While Roon provides some additional search capability, to my mind it is not w... | |
| Toslink I think Toslink is still most likely to be an inferior interconnect. It has two extra stages in conversion that are unnecessary. Also, for most companies it is an add on just in case… so stock electrical -> optical and back. It is not so much t... | |
| Really Long XLR Moving your equipment can from between your speakers can have a very positive effect. I think mine are 25 feet or so. Depending on your system the quality of the interconnects are important. Fortunately this time I was able to buy the same quality... | |
| Affordable SS that sound like Tubes @audioman58 I get that. I remember hearing great Sansui equipment when I was in college in the 70’s before I discovered / could afford high end equipment. Then over the ensuing fifty years equipment has become better and better. But it is har... | |
| Good streamer that does not need wi-fi or internet to play local files I use Netgear because my router/modem is netgear. They say it doesn’t matter… but after being in IT for over thirty years, I still like buying from the same company… the same support team if something goes wrong. | |
| Affordable SS that sound like Tubes @audioman58 Sorry… what are you responding to? I have no idea… I doubt I am alone. | |
| Good streamer that does not need wi-fi or internet to play local files Avoid Ethernet over power… this communicated via the power lines. This is a dirty way. You want to use a wifi extender… though the air… for instance: https://www.pcmag.com/lists/best-wifi-range-extenders?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=109462... | |
| Affordable SS that sound like Tubes After fifty years of pursuing the high end… the first forty with solid state amps.. I will not go back to solid state. I found that tube amps can be incredibly reliable and more importantly musical. When I was working I put about 600 hours a year... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions My blunt response is: I have owned cutting edge high level Pass amps for nearly 40 years… switch to tubes… I am an Audio research fan… used works. | |
| Good streamer that does not need wi-fi or internet to play local files OP, It is simple and cheap to connect an Aurender in a house with WiFi. You just buy a wall wart wifi extender… $69. Plug it in near your streamer and run an Ethernet cable between the extender and streamer. I have a $150K system running this way... | |
| Integrated amplifier for Fritz Speakers I would get the speakers… get them broken in, then start thinking about the character of the integrated you want… assuming you have something to power them today. | |
| Nordost reference jumpers vs second set of cables Great question. @jl35 +1 I would do the jumpers and use the difference to upgrade something else… direct lines if you don’t have them, or upgrade your amp power cord, or room acoustics. | |
| Vinyl Lovers Congratulations on where you are. What is your system? There is a place to put photos. Very helpful. What turntable? I started collecting in the 60’s as well and continued through present. I was shocked that when cleaned and with an audiophil... | |
| Dynamic Range - the golden key to music nirvana? Thank you for the thoughtful documentation of your journey to a system that really engages you. I think that is the desire for us all. Of course we all have different values and they change over time. As you noted at the onset there are more attr... |