ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? It is entirely individual dependent. By definition an audiophile has an incredibly steep reward curve. Like I had a friend that was a marathon runner… endorphins would flood his system after running about five minutes… me, a tiny squirt after four... | |
| Looking for Tonearm Advice/Suggestions Tri-planar u12 or a Graham Phantom is the most obvious. | |
| Digital is as confusing as ever I have owned Auralic and Aurender as well as many inexpensive alternatives. If you want high fidelity I recommend Aurender. The Conductor app is liked by most. I have two Aurrender streamers (see my systems).They will work flawlessly while my ... | |
| Female XLR to RCA? While you can do it and the sound quality difference may be not be obvious I would not unless this is an intermediary step to get to a fully balanced system. High sound quality sound is the sum of every optimal design, component, sub component... | |
| Yes, digital cables matter too Thank you. Great evaluation and write up. Completely consistent with my tests and results in general. I am happy to hear you could hear such important differences from a BlueSound Node. Good to know. | |
| Need to build a headphone system The selection of components is intimidating. I put my headphone system together over the last twenty years. I have owned a lot of headphones, amps, DACs and streamers… in many ways going back to the early 1980’s. My desire is to have really music... | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? I have given away half of my 2,000. The others are acting as wall treatments. | |
| Krell vs Mcintosh @rsf507 +1 | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? @ghasley +1 @mihorn Alex, you completely discredited your post with the categorical statement “All audio systems in the world sound un-natural… except for yours. I read no further. | |
| Recommended Server? Aurrender. I own two after experimenting with others for years (you can see them in my virtual systems). The higher level one you buy the better the sound quality. Aurrender only makes streamers and they are among the best, if not the best at vari... | |
| Something other than Harbeth SHL5 Congratulations. I took a quick look at a couple reviews, they sound like great speakers. Tell us more when you have had them for a couple months. | |
| Dac: Old vs New Very difficult question. This is very budget oriented equipment… so with limited design time and part choices based mostly on cost. So, if you want a significant improvement in sound quality, I recommend save up,twice as much and buy a used unit a... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs @mofojo +1 | |
| Pass Labs XP32 or XP22? I have long paired a Audio Research preamps with Pass Labs amps. This is a very good combination to get the most out of great Pass amps. | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs I used to own a set of Cremona M, Olympica 3, and now own Sonus Faber Amati Tradional. The Cremona M are very warm… I think most folks would say with a soft top end. The Olympica ushered in a more neutral balanced but still incredibly natural and ... |