ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Pass INT-25 better than Wilsenton R8? @carlsbad2 +1 | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Your budget is good to get a great sounding system. Given your circumstances I would recommend starting from scratch… forget what you used to like. Use all the experience you gained on sound quality and components and start over. I would start... | |
| Anyone else feel like they are “transported” INTO the music Yep, that is the destination. Took me 45 years of research and investment… but I am there also. I get lost in the music. | |
| Subs for SF Amati Oh, no question Sonus Faber Gravis VI. How could one even think of something else? Made to integrate with SF Amati… in violin red! While I bought the Amati’s for the sound… they are so beautiful… so are the subs. | |
| user poll on seperates vs integrated Integrated amps have changed a lot in the last ten years, they have gotten a lot better. The $10K range is the real sweet spot in them. I have recently auditioned the Pass Int-60 (?), Luxman 509, and Audio Research I-50. $10K, $10K, $6K. They all ... | |
| I am just very happy with my system. Cool. Congradulations. It is great having a system you really enjoy. Typically I am thrilled with my system for about seven to ten years until I start to realize I might have enough funds to start thinking about an upgrade cycle. It would be g... | |
| Cable differences -- power, interconnect, digital, and in what order? As in most high end audio, it depends. From my experience (50 years) in general speaker cables, power cords, and interconnects. But they are all important and there are many exceptions. To really get a handle on the sound characteristics and t... | |
| Shortest Product Demo Ever: Had to Hit the Eject Button and Get the #*@% Out of There? I have had quite a few short auditions like that. Often it will be some young kid in an audio store that says listen to this, and the distortion and high frequency noise chases me out in a couple seconds. Usually a low cost system. But I will walk... | |
| Monitor Stands - Made of Stone Typically stone is not used because of it resonance.. I have a one inch thick plate of granite under my amp. I used springs above and vibrapods below to isolate the granite and the steal stand with spikes it sits on , so mostly it is supplying wei... | |
| Streamer with toslink output Toslink is usually the most inferior connection. | |
| How rare is an audiophile After pursuing high end audio and being an executive (meaning circulating with lots of other management and thousands of employees) I have never randomly met one that I know of. Not one. So, the number is small. 300K… that probably is not a bad gu... | |
| How many of you streaming? I stream Qobuz. I virtually always listen to whole albums. I have streamed on my main system for twelve years or so. I was always hopping around. The reason was my streaming (and CD) leg was not musical and fulfilling. I worked over the last f... | |
| How does one pick in this situation? @rmdmoore +1 Take a trip… listen to a wide variety of speakers, without prejudice. You want to find a brand (they have house sound) that has an emotional connection. Take your wife, take her out in the evening. Let her shop somewhere else... | |
| Phono Cable Breakin Phono cables are a real problem. Yes, break in is very real. You want well over 100 hours before drawing any conclusions on sound. 200 hours is safer. The signal strength on a phono cable is minuscule and the effect on a system can be substantial,... | |
| The weirdness of it all I guess I misinterpreted your post. Ithought you had opened yourself up to new possibilities. Oh, well. Your loss, not mine. |