ghdprentice
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| Speaker and Cable Suggestions Please @curiousjim I remember early on I was inclined to get expensive speaker cables immediately, I think to throw everything at the speaker purchase to make sure I could hear a difference that would justify the financial outlay I made for the speaker... | |
| Planar headphones I think there are two ways to look a at this. 1) from the fundamental differences from headphones vs a stereo audio system, and 2) quality of the sound. While I have used pretty high end headphones for most of fifty years, I got serious in pur... | |
| Marantz cd players @kota1 +1 Click on the downward pointed triangle next to “discussion Forum”… then Virtual Systems. Some photos and listing your components will help enormously. | |
| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. Natural… not accentuated in treble or bass. Coherent top to bottom… I have owned a number of planar / dynamic speakers… while listening to them they don’t sound uncoherent… until you hear a coherent one. I would rather some bass truncation over in... | |
| Best way to clean glossy finish on speakers? Use a swifter and never touch it. Almost any cloth will have dust embedded in it and will cause micro scratches… dulling the finish. If you had accidentally touched it, then use a brand new / perfectly clean fluffy micro fiber closet with a small ... | |
| Vinyl Lovers Just a different perspective on Zerostat. I have owned several over the decades… especially when I used to live in Tucson and static was a really big problem. They have never done a bit of good. I desperately wanted them to, I bought the newest… p... | |
| Speaker and Cable Suggestions Please Congradulations on your new amp. Great choice. High quality audio systems can make up for reduced hearing. I think mostly by revealing the whole spectrum of sound in the music. If you miss a bit of the real high frequency, it just isn’t that obvi... | |
| Product: Sonus Faber Concertino Domus Bookshelf Speakers; w/ Stands Lots of times with the interim inflation you will spend about the same price 20 years later on speakers. I would enjoy them. I think that is fair price in todays market. | |
| DAC Question: Delta-Sigma vs R2R @mdrone I don’t find thinness an attribute of any particular design, but of the overall quality (and typically expense) of the unit. A really good designer will carefully select all the components as well as the design so as to optimize the soun... | |
| Re-wiring the listening room: Questions @gregdude Sorry, maybe I am not writing clearly. What I am suggesting is three separate circuits from the same circuit box (I did not mention this… just in case you have two), each with a separate breaker … . The important point is they are goin... | |
| Product: Sonus Faber Concertino Domus Bookshelf Speakers; w/ Stands I believe $1,000 speakers and $200 stands. In 2004. So says Bard. | |
| Re-wiring the listening room: Questions @gregdude Not true. Ground loops are created by plugging in to two different circuits with different shared outlets… creating a differential in resistance. There is a trickle of current between the two, When you have dedicated lines that does n... | |
| Upgrading My Vinyl Set Up On Nordost. I agree with @macg19 on lower tier not being great. However, my experience is that upper tier are great… not over priced. | |
| Upgrading My Vinyl Set Up @dogberry The source is in the components. It depends where you are. If you are doing a complete system upgrade then after the speakers you could argue the source… but I would do preamp, amp, then sources. Getting the character of your system… t... | |
| Vinyl Lovers @mijostyn Yes, Amazons packaging can be really bad. My return rate is probably over 25%… with Music Direct I returned one about five years ago… so, like 1 or 2 percent. Their packaging is made for vinyl and they will slit the plastic to prevent ... |