ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Upgrade thoughts OP, congratulations. It is hard to believe you will not be really happy for a very long time with those speakers. Great choice. I am close friends with my dealer, and thankfully he picked up the product lines I wanted shortly before I need... | |
| How serious are you? I am probably a 8. It has been a continuous passion for over fifty years… taking precedence over but not exclusively of other sedentary pursuits. It has not prevented me from traveling the world, SCUBA diving, riding my bicycles all over the conti... | |
| Are higher end preamps worth the investment when you are only streaming Tidal & Spotify ? Qobuz (best) and Tidal can sound as good as CDs, stored files or vinyl given the right system. The sound you get is really dependent on all your components. Your system is a sum of its parts. I have found that with careful choices topically an... | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... @roadcykler “…things people believe… You can’t prove things with facts or objectivity so you have to have faith.“ I believe Audiophilia is more like a science, careful and systematic observation reveals important nuanced real world changes in... | |
| Ref 6SE. Tube dampers @barrysandy @tattooedtrackman Thanks for your comments. Anyone else. I have all Audio Research components. My attitude to them has been, they supply tube dampeners, so they probably thought it through… but if there is are lots of folks that... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @kota1 +1 | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... One of my early jaw dropping experiences in audio were with digital cables. I had already learned how important they were to optimize the analog components. Around 1990 I had a two box CD player. I happily thought, finally a cable that will not ma... | |
| Ethernet streaming In general separate function components are better. By separating the internal components further typically greater fidelity can be achieved. Additionally, you have more flexibility as you can only upgrade the streamer or upgrade the DAC. Unless y... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? I think the kind of impact your friends comment has is somewhat dependent on your experience level, exposure to other systems, and depth of knowledge. For instance if someone said that of my system, I would have to exert some self control not to s... | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... Once you have a compatible set of components that sound great together, speaker wire, interconnects and powercords can make a very significant improvement in sound quality. The better your system, in general, the bigger the improvement you are lik... | |
| Audio Research SP-8 vs LS-7 + PH-5 I would go for the separates. Separates have always sounded better to me and much more flexibility to upgrade. I have owned earlier and or later models of all of these. Highly recommended. | |
| Best Digital USB cables under $ 300.00 ?? DH Labs +1 | |
| Mobile Fidelity 24k CDs @stuartk Thanks for your kind words. Not sure I can speak about CD-R, I probably haven’t bought one in ten years. I hardly ever play my CDs. I sure can say that the Audio Research Reference CD9SE CD player / DAC… is unbelievably synergistic ... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. @terry9 …”As I understand it, ’lively’ is the opposite of ’dead’. I hear ’dead’ as resonance free, dull, which is bad in a piano and good in a turntable, I hear turntable ’liveliness’ as accentuated high frequency which makes everything sound shar... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. Well. When I started this I never thought I would get any posts that claimed turn tables make no difference. Well, you just never know. Yes @mapman it is a hundred year old technology, but I have been using it for over sixty years. The fact th... |