ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It @kota1. “…I am in the camp that a good system can play music or movies, channel or object based audio…” I think this comment of yours identifies the point of contention. Playing music and music by definition is a home theater system. The ass... | |
| How serious are you? @coltrane1 I live in the Pacific Northwest and have air conditioning. My 38 tubes are providing wonderful sound. It sounds like you are postponing listening for more than a few days. Also, climate change will make the number of days that ... | |
| How serious are you? @coltrane1 Perhaps the next high end audio purchase should be air conditioning. | |
| Audio / Stereo Rack @emergingsoul Casters are not provided because they degrade the sound. Typically spikes are standard. Salamander is a consumer brand… so, they expect low end components that are standardized in size as opposed to high end amps. There are... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality @soix +1 | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Thanks for the update. You have a good wife… I’d hold on to her. You must be quite the waffler. Congratulations on your purchase. Yeah, that’s why more expensive speakers are more expensive… performance. I’m happy you did it. You will enjoy th... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? For most of the history of CD players there have been only a few transport manufacturers… but CD players and transports sounded quit different with the same transports. Companies that wanted to get the most out of sound would go through extraordin... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? OP, Pretty soon you are going to hook up a decent streamer and DAC and hear why they are important. However if you don’t invest some money in both it will sound like a waste of money. So far you have been splashing around in the kiddy pool. | |
| Duelund speaker cable gauge for my system? The rollercoasting I have heard generally happens between 100 and 200 hours. | |
| Luxman L-509X as a preamp I find the Ayre sound more natural and relaxed than the Luxman. Also, to get the best possible sound you want to invest in the best possible components. So, acquiring an integrated and only using the preamp would, in my way of thinking be a real w... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality A dedicated streamer, keep the PC out. The better quality the streamer (as all audio components), the better If your system is too far from your router modem you can use a wall wart wifi extender and a short Ethernet cable from there to your stre... | |
| What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections? Qobuz. $12.99 / month, over one half million high resolution albums and millions of red book CD. Indistinguishable from personally owned files (assuming equivalent electronics. Owning files as @yyzsantabarbara said is very ten years ago. | |
| Ruminations On CD Players @mapman +1 A CD player is a transport + streamer + DAC. In todays world it really only makes sense to invest in the Streamer + DAC… beyond that music is essentially free ($12.99 / month for access to nearly infinite music with hundreds of t... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? OP…”Here is another way to consider my question. Are low cost DACs (such as the Schiit) going to be any better than the DAC in the Apple Airport Express?…” YES. | |
| Speaker for constellation audio There are lots of advantages living in a small town, I am a bit jealous. But local auditions is not one of them. I highly recommend a trip to the big city. Make appointments to audiotion specific speakers. No, you cannot audition everything, b... |