ghdprentice
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| Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers? @hilde45 +1 Also only follow youtube reviews after reading this months Stereophile, The Absolute Sound and HiFi+. | |
| Tubes trouble? I agree with @newbee it doesn’t sound like a tube problem, good advice on likely fixes. But for all my ARC equipment I have an extra set of tubes. If a funny noise comes up in a single channel, I change the tubes in that channel (or both if I ... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red Nice clear video. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum OP… mister handyman, You are fortunate then that you can competently fiddle with tt’s. One advantage I would have in this situation would be I would only need to call up my dealer and he would fix the issue at no cost or effort on my part.. | |
| Sequential Tube Monoblocks I have had three ARC Reference 160 stereo amps and two of the same model monoblocks. The monos produced at least two years before the stereo versions and the stereo versions produced over about a year. They all sounded exactly the same… first when... | |
| My thoughts on the HiFi Rose 150B @nadimjaber Thank you for your well thought out analysis. It is very helpful and interesting. | |
| All ARC vs All Pass Labs vs All CJ system compare @jjss49 +1 Very well put… I agree. | |
| Base trap spacing OP, Just a note. Typically 2 meter power cords are recommended. This is because the longer they are, the more “power conditioning” you get. This was a fairly new concept to me, so, I got a hold of a one meter and two meter AudioQuest Hurricane... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Just my own personal view on turntables and cartridges. First, I am not dexterously endowed… nor do I have a lot of patience with little stuff. So, I always purchase my analog end from a dealer. I never touch it, but to use it. He comes to my hous... | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? @pmiller115 Thank you for your follow up comment. Yes, we are using compromise in the same way. I have found that sideways moves in audio equipment virtually always amounts to compromise; trading one set of strengths and weaknesses for anoth... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @jjss49 Thanks for the overview of your testing Odyssey. I must admit to a much shorter list, but similar conclusion. | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? This has to be a classic Marantz Model One (?)… the one with the oscilloscope. | |
| Alpa 300b Mono's information Aric Audio Alpha 300b amps? | |
| Tube microphonics These days ARC only puts dampening rings on small tubes. Not big power tubes. This does not take away from the argument that tubes can be microphonic. I suspect the large power tubes may run so hot, that they cannot use those dampeners. | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? @pmiller115 I have seldom ever experienced compromise in the pursuit of the high end in either my home theater or audio systems. There are some rules: always research the heck out of any purchase, and never spend less that twice as much on the n... |