ghdprentice
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| So, I bought a Chord Hugo TT2...now what? @audphile1 I tried to word that carefully. The first five to seven years of audiophilia I had a number of disappointments . The grainy used preamp, the lean - dull sounding (highly rated) tape deck… the 75 pound massive Yamaha power amp that had... | |
| Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets @vthokie83 +1 Good approach, I’ve done that before with other accessories. Not being in a hurry is really important when evaluating changes likely to be subtle. @emergingsoul The quick answer, no. Not that I might not try that some day. ... | |
| Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets @squared80 Or, perhaps, you do not understand. | |
| So, I bought a Chord Hugo TT2...now what? Congratulations! It’s such a great relief and happy surprise when you spend a lot on a new component and it bests your expectations. Virtually every one of mine over the last forty or fifty years have been like that… hence how addictive the pursui... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuart Yep, a good sense of humor. My partner and I tease each other and are happy that our two brains working together seem to get the job done. 😊 The fortunate thing about this memory problem is that it occurs because I am processing other... | |
| Next step up on the streaming food chain? I owned an Aries G2 a few years ago. It was pretty good, but I wanted to have sound quality on par with my vinyl system. Then I found Aurrender, my first Aurrender the N150. I have two Aurrender and have heard the N10, N20, and I own the W20SE. I... | |
| Solo streamer I have not had any luck with low end Shunyata cords. I have not extensively tested different ones. But the lower tiers were no better than stock or basic. I’m sure upper tier are great. | |
| What do I need? A home theater requires a surround processor AVP)… which takes input signals from different sources like BluRay, Cable box, Amazon Cube, Apple TV and splits them into different channels (basically a multichannel preamp and decoder). This signal is... | |
| pop sound between tracks I’ve got two Aurenders, no pops. I have in the past experienced pops when switching resolutions, it was always the DAC not the streamer. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I bet my memory is worse, it has never been good. For the last day my partner has been reminding me to take the lobsters out of the freezer so they will be thawed for tomorrow. It is a ten second walk from the bedroom to the kitchen. After a numbe... | |
| which power amp or integrated for Totem Element Fire v2's? I am running my Totems with a PrimaLuna integrated. This works very well. It is pretty detailed, but still natural sounding. I love totems in small spaces… but definitely with tubes to get the most music out of them. | |
| Looking for comparisons between CD transports You do not need to invest over $20K to get a streamer that will equal alternative formats. Obviously It will depend on your system and components. Typically today streaming can be done in the same ballpark investment range as alternatives. Takes s... | |
| Receiver Receiver? Typically I would pair them with an integrated amp. Receivers are highly compromised in sound quality. You are talking audio only, correct? I have owned three sets of Sonus Faber. Which model, room, kind of music you like. Existing eq... | |
| Matching Aurender with P.S.Audio I own a Aurrender N150, it is an excellent streamer although there more contemporary models are even better. Correct, it only has a USB output. | |
| Is Recording quality the real culprit? The sonic presentation of systems are vastly different given the same source material. If the system is tuned to maximize detail, with a lean midrange to become a microscope on details, then the resolution of the source material becomes really cri... |