ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? Fitting the speakers to the size of your room is a thing. Acoustical treatments can help adjust, but usually the best bet is to get speakers that operate within the sound pressure levels you enjoy without overloading the room. I chose Sonus Faber ... | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. An upgrade cycle lasts about a year for me… new components, interconnects, powercords, positioning, room treatments… then I don’t generally touch anything for about seven years. I don’t by my nature like to fiddle. | |
| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable It is funny you mention this. I remember hearing and seeing these old guys haul out this really expensive Audio Research gear from the dealer in Phoenix fourth years ago. I couldn’t even think about owning in my wildest dreams. The sound was absol... | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation 500 watts is a lot of power to use 24 x 7 for an hour or two of listening. At very least I would turn off over night. Pass has an idle mode where a trickle of current is used to keep the circuits warm, Audio Research now has a 3 1/2 minute soft... | |
| A reasonably priced DAC upgrade from Schiit Gumby If you want to have a clear upgrade, with all aspects improving then you will probably need to spend at least 2x to 3x. Even this still puts you in the budge DAC range. But I would not upgrade until you could jump to something like a Yggdrasil… us... | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? Great example of how it is strongly dependent on your equipment. I had the privilege of auditioning a pair of Odin 2 in my system and they were the most amazing, musical, natural and detailed cables I have ever heard. | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? Yes, there is definitely breakin on speakers. I have broken in at least half a dozen good speakers. Dynamic speaker’s bass tends to sound woolly and not fully developed at first. Tweeter can be harsh. I have never tried to attribute some portion o... | |
| Golden Ears? Sorry for your loss. Small amounts of hearing loss (most often in the very high frequencies) to a very experienced listener have very little impact on enjoyment and skills in assessing audio systems. My female partner has always had better hearin... | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Iconoclast I have tried Blue Jean cables a few years ago. Over my 50 years pursuing high end audio, I have spent many hundreds of hours evaluating cables and their impact. I have a good system and can pretty quickly characterized the impact of interconnects ... | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation OP “…Thinking I will turn them on when listening in the morning casually, shut them off while at work, turn them on when I get back, and shut off when I go to bed…” This is a pretty good plan. You might also start a study to learn how much war... | |
| How best to arrange cables in this room... @carlsbad2 Yes, always trade offs. Best would be to use monoblocks located next to speakers and use long interconnects. I am really luck my system is no longer in a common area. | |
| Table top DAC and Amp advice needed Yes, for low budget gear, Schiit is an excellent choice. I have a few around for misc duty. | |
| How best to arrange cables in this room... @carlsbad2 +1 …”Equal length cables are always recommended, I’ve played with un-equal length and never been able to hear the difference. ” I have to agree. While I did not do this when I was tremendously experienced with high end audio.... | |
| Is there miracles in audio experience ? 😊👌 | |
| Is there miracles in audio experience ? I think I know what you mean, but we would use very different language. I only use the word miracle in fun. If I do something well, that I typically do poorly, “It’s a miracle I did it correctly”! In reality, I was trained and worked as a scienti... |