ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| what cable should I buy for my system? I would go with Cardas at the price level of about 10% of your average component costs. Sounds like you want to be careful not to get cables that are too “hot” of it’s honing to get fatiguing. Cardas will add refinement. Alternatively, try DHLabs ... | |
| Best Sounding L/R Speakers for DVD/BD Movie Sound? > $4K/pair I’m not really sure of the question. Yes, really old movies do not have not very good sounding sound tracks. The restoration on North by Northwest was phenomenal, both video and audio, the reason it sounds good. Our home theater has B&W 80... | |
| Small speaker advice If you like the sound of Wilson, then that sounds perfect for your venue. Some of the very best sound I have ever heard was in a tiny room. The trick is to have speakers of appropriate size and really warm natural sounding electronics. There is li... | |
| Streamer/Ripper/Storage I would not get a streamer with a ripper. First, once you get a very high quality streamer there should be no difference between ripped files and streaming and so the value disappears. You want all the cost to be in making the streamer sound good…... | |
| Listening to what we Like Instead of what we have to This can be a problem. I realized my system had become a sound analysis devise highlighting the venue and details and not the music. I moved from dominantly solid state to tube equipment and Sonus Faber speakers. You can see my systems under my us... | |
| Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets I just replaced my hospital grade outlets with “Furutech GTX-D NCF(R) Ultimate Nano-Crystal Rhodium-Plated AC Duplex Receptacle”. They were a notable improvement. | |
| Streamer/Ripper/Storage Aurrender N150 or N200. Outstanding sound quality, build quality, support and app. I own two and have heard much of the line up, against a number of models within the $4K - $13K range. I have not had an opportunity to listen to the Innuos Zenith M... | |
| Updating my streamer Personally I think @audiotroy has been pretty good at adding value to the conversations here and not going over the line of outright selling. I am sure it is a difficult line to walk. | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! @yyzsantabarbara +1 Be very careful what you wish for. As uy’s example Benchmark is great at detail, but at a big musical cost. In my past I have pursued detail and imaging and found myself without music… lean midrange and little rhythm and p... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. Ok, well congratulations! But, I can’t imagining finding that but to stumble on it. It is interesting. I realized, that I will usually only put so much effort (quite a bit) into solving a problem. Then just go on. Typically, I’ll do something une... | |
| Isolation systems As pointed out too many variables to predict. I would not attempt further whole rack isolation but concentrate on individual component isolation. For one thing it will be easier to analyse and compare. You’ve already got a pretty good base. Nob... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp @rav6258 Congradulation on your new preamp. I’m also 72. It sounds like you are getting amazingly good sound out of that OPPO. It is great that you have such a large vinyl collection. But thinking ahead, you might think about streaming. You ... | |
| Looking for comparisons between CD transports @oddiofyl Congratulations, looks like a very good transport. | |
| High end bookshelf speakers for Small room Sonus Faber make a number of stand mounted speakers worthy of your electronics. They are incredibly musical and beautiful. | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? @gbmcleod Certainly a very good power cord may improve an inexpensive amp. But, it is unlikely to have the impact because the noise floor of the components is likely to be much higher than a high end component… basically covering up the improvem... |