ghdprentice
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| "Can You Lift Yours?" I would imagine most of us who have been into high end audio for decades own a hand truck, “sliders”, and a fulcrum to tip heavy weights so you can put the sliders under them. Also, we have brains. I remember a few years ago I bought a large s... | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? @vonhelmholtz …”Your concern seems to me to be a difficult way for thieves to target wealthy individuals…” +1 Not a realistic concern. High end equipment weighs a ton. Not exactly ideal to extract, transport and fence. Also, a lot of us are reti... | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. I think @mahgister brings out that you can make tremendous improvements after you finalize your equipment. It takes work and is only limited by your imagination and effort. While for me that is for my main system. He took it to crazy levels with h... | |
| Balanced/Differential tube preamplifier recommendation? @soix +1 OP, I get that… hard to know what you don’t know. Fyi. I have all ARC gear… it is fully balanced. I had both a pair of Transparent RCA and Balanced interconnects. ARC recommends using balanced. So, I tried both. It is really easy t... | |
| Fun With Cable Risers OP “I have always found it hilarious that people theorize something can't work, so just assume they have to be right…” Well put. 👍 | |
| Streamer suggestions with both wireless and wired connections My CD / DAC and Streamer / DAC sound the same when playing the same red book files… from CD (I am using the same DAC I either scenario), stored files or streamed. This is true for me by design… getting the highest quality sound at my level of inve... | |
| Base trap spacing @wolf_garcia It’s OK, we knew what he intended. Inhale… exhale… inhale… exhale 😊… there you go. | |
| Help Me Downsize My Travel Rig I spent several decades in international travel with portable high end solutions… well before it was a thing. Go Delta Diamonds. I guess if I was still trying to take real high end audio on travel I would take my A&K SP2000, with the extra in... | |
| Balanced/Differential tube preamplifier recommendation? @thought9 Sorry I can’t tell you whether designs are fully differential or not, I make decisions on sound quality. If you have five different designers, they can make a particular design sound completely different depending on the sound they... | |
| All ARC vs All Pass Labs vs All CJ system compare I cannot speak to the contemporary CJ with certainty… but I have a pretty likely true answer. Absolutely No. I have extensively owned and auditioned Audio Research, Pass, and Conrad Johnson. While at the highest level there has been convergence… ... | |
| Wall outlets @mc1969 You are saying that hospital grade sounds worse than 89 cent (or whatever it is now) Home Depot cheap duplex receptacle? | |
| Balanced/Differential tube preamplifier recommendation? I would recommend looking for a used Audio Research, VAC, or Conrad Johnson. I would go back as far as necessary to meet your budget (make sure it is a tube preamp). These are world class preamps and will provide amazingly musical presentations. I... | |
| Wall outlets Thanks for posting your virtual system. Very nice. It really helps with recommendations. If you are installing direct lines I think it makes sense to install audiophile grade outlets. By the way. A case of beer is too much to install an outlet… ... | |
| Base trap spacing @audphile1 +1 Very well thought out and presented. I think you are right if you do the job correctly you will be much better off. | |
| Cable elevators @squared80 A lot of folks start out skeptical about differences in sound quality. Then they upgrade or swap something that should not matter and the difference is simply stunning. The uninformed “that can’t make a difference” goes out the window... |