ghdprentice
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| Somewhat of an oxymoron - speaker stands for the floor for bookshelf speakers. Stands are available at most audio outlets. The mark of good bookshelf speakers and stands are high weight. So, for a good speaker, you are talking 20+ pounds. For a high quality stand, high also. If you want to maximize the sound quality one shou... | |
| Sonas Faber OLYMPICA versions I owned Olympica 3’s for a number of years. The 1, 2 and 3 designations are: stand mounted, floor standers with one woofer, and floor standers with two woofers. They are all great sounding… subject to exactly what you would think. The newer ve... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation Your observation on the Nordost is right on. Their top end products are world class and unbeatable, but their lower end stuff is “thin” sounding. I would recommend looking at Cardas first… the higher the level the more transparent they are (cleare... | |
| Conrad Johnson Classic 120se vs. Linear Tube Audio 40 Reference Amps OP, Congratulations. Look forward to hearing your impressions. I suspect they will be favorable. Sometimes the right approach is to eliminate options and to go for what is left. | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. @dayglow +1 @deep_333 -1 | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! Both the streamer and the DAC play major roles in the resultant sound. I have used, iPads PCs, inexpensive streamers, $5K, $10K, $15k, and $22K streamers and the difference is like night and day. The streamer matters. The last of those streamers i... | |
| Getting Back In - But Doing it Sanely I am very familiar with the Merlin. For your price range I would look at a used Audio Research I-50. Should be able to find one close to your price… warm, natural, musical sound. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? A friend of mine, fairly new to the high end world was trying to decide between the Aurrender N100 ($3.5K new) I had lent him with his Schiit Yggdrasil (~$2.5K) he owned and a Linn DSM ($12K) with both streamer and DAC. So he hooked them both up a... | |
| Which frequency to adjust if voices/mids give me a headache. @erik_squires Also, the better the equipment the more natural the sound and the less harsh and fatiguing it is. | |
| dropout streaming @soix +1 Typical built in WiFi receivers do not work well. On my Aurlic Aries G2, I found it much more reliable to use a wall wart wifi extender and a cable to the streamer than using it’s internal internal WiFi receiver. Also lower end str... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. That sounds a lot like asking a teenager if they cleaned their room and getting the answer that they thought about it. | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Learning the nuances of sound can be a lifetime endeavor. To jumpstart it is helpful to listen to vastly different sounding systems and acoustic instruments and concerts. The former to expose you to differences, the latter to calibrate you to what... | |
| Mastersound 300b Compact-thoughts??? I wanted to experience the 300b sound. So I got the Woo 300b amp for my headphone system. I also put in Takatsuki tubes in them. Honestly my headphone system became incredible sounding. So much so that I had a hard time listening to my $70K main s... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter Cool. You have the enormous advantage of a really low noise floor. One of the great characteristics of my room is it is underground on three sides… it really helps quiet the ambient noise. You sound like you already are thinking about the righ... | |
| Solved my streaming grunge (inner detail) problem Great thing to know… a noisy thing near your system can cause problems. Something that was not common in the analog days. Sure there were hair driers… but the literal noise made it obvious. |