ghdprentice
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| HOW can components be so expensive, and yet customer service is so bad. Sorry to hear you are having such bad luck. It is hard to believe some of it isn’t just bad luck. High end equipment is normally tested extensively before shipment. With the exception of a Sonic Frontiers CD player which had an unreliable transp... | |
| Should I buy another flat screen now while they are still relatively cheap? Good question. I have wondered the same thing. I decided to wait. Since even if the cost went up 50% they would still cost less than most of my audio cables. After years of buying by cost point, my last 78" OLED and 65" LED for the bedroom ha... | |
| Need help with Aurender N20 I use a Transparent AES between my Aurrender W23SE and my Audio Research DAC. I have found Transparent to be extremely transparent... moving exactly the signal without allowing interference or tipping tonal balance. Cardas has a slightly warm tone... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? First, take your time and carefully choose your approach. Try to band aid it or rethink your choices and put together a synergistic system that sound exactly the way you want it to. I had a very dry and detailed oriented system and did a major u... | |
| Which would be preferable, an older Audio Research Corp. VT130 or a newer SS Rotel 1552? Easy for me. I would go for the Audio Research VT130. It will sound much more natural, organic and musical. The Rotel is punchy, accurate and neutral... but not as musical and organic. | |
| What do you listen to? Since I brought streaming sonically to equal my vinyl and CD... new music has been increasingly. Probably 90+% new now. | |
| Hlep chosing a streamer/server for my DAC I recommend Aurender. To get into your price range, buy used. They are one of the leading streamers and are almost exclusively used at high end audio shows. I have extensive experience with them. They have an excellent interface (very important) a... | |
| Selling collection directly in the pacific northwest? @oldhifiguyolympia Hi. I have my original Marantz 1060 integrated which I bought in 1972 with wood enclosure. I am sure it needs new caps. But it is just collecting dust down here in Vancouver, WA | |
| Nomenclature for streaming @sns +1 Server... internal storage. Streamer only... no storage | |
| Where to start upgrading? I have had a headphone system for decades. Over the last ten or fifteen years I finally buckled down to really make it great. It took many years. I went as far as importing a headphone amp as well as buying several others. For headphones the most ... | |
| Mid level listening I find the extent to which I am drawn into the music versus the system is the result of the sonic character of the sound. The higher the rhythm and pace, midrange bloom and the lower the unnecessary emphasis on details and artificial transparency,... | |
| Solutions for converting vinyl to 256 DSD? Ayre produced an ADC for the purpose a while ago. The founder was convinced everyone was going to be converting their vinyl. They put a huge amount of money into its development. It was a flop. Could be exactly what you want. I just finish... | |
| Solutions for converting vinyl to 256 DSD? Given the difficulty and expense in playback, I thought about conversion. The same issue, you need really good ADC. It goes on and on. Now with streaming many are available on streaming, often in high resolution... maybe not DSD. But without the... | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? Yes. Posters that spend enough time to present their evidence, preferences and post their systems so it is easy for you to determine "where they are coming from". No. Short one liners, vitriolic, dogmatic, deniers... etc. | |
| Ceriously, it all started with a power cable @cleeds Thank you. +1 |