ghdprentice
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| Seeking Recommendations For A Record Cleaner I have only owned two cleaning machines over the last twenty five years. The first a VPI… it both applied cleaning solution and vacuumed. It did a good job and lasted about twenty years. It was very noisy… jet aircraft noisy. I never thought much ... | |
| How do you find time to enjoy your $$$ speakers and system? When I was working and in the county (I spent a couple weeks out of the country a month). It was known to all that the ~ 45 minutes to hour before bed were my music time (distress time). My partner encouraged it because for over thirty years she s... | |
| Solid copper or stranded copper for speaker cables? What is your choice and why? I choose speaker cables by how they sound in my system. I learned long ago that high end cables make a huge difference in the sound of my system over just wire. Also, there are many parameters that determine the sound quality of what you use, lik... | |
| Help needed to sort out an annoying crackling/static issue with streamer I would get a wall wart WiFi extender ($59). Plug it in next to your system and connect this to your streamer via Ethernet cable. I operate my $150K system this way and the sound quality is the same as my high end analog rig. | |
| Matching Power and Speakers -- Much Ado about Not-that-Much? (Tube amps and speakers) It depends. Assuming a general match with speaker sensitivity. It depends on what characteristics you prize most. If you’re into slam… then more power more better. If your into musicality then you are more concerned with other characteristics ... | |
| Preamp Advice/experiences needed My experience is that preamps are the most critical electronic component and really set the sonics of your system. I was finally able to afford a great tubed preamp twenty years ago and will never go back, I am a big fan of Audio Research and Conr... | |
| Threshold Stasis S/150 Ok let me be really clear here. The Threshold amps are a great piece of history. If you want history,,, this is what you want. If you want high performance sound quality,.. what is your budget, we will help you find high end sound quality… it is n... | |
| Choosing new cables Given the high quality of your components I would recommend either Transparent or high level Cardas. Nordost must be high in their levels… so those will cost you… I don’t find lower level Nordost that good. Definitely an AudioQuest Hurricane or... | |
| going from tube preamp to solid state @nagel If you really love great sound quality you really deserve to own a great tube preamp. It is easy to develop a list of potential problems with a technology and stay a way from it. For several decades I stayed away from tubed amps. For ... | |
| Fee for home audition No standard. But that is strange. How much does it cost? If it is a $20K streamer or a $1K streamer… it makes a difference. One hour isn’t a long time. My dealer brings stuff to my house for free. He leaves it there for weeks. But this is ... | |
| Tube tester? @carlsbad +1 I am not in the geek camp. I have all tube gear. My equipment has tube time counters. Even if they didn’t it isn’t that hard to generally estimate the tube time. I have about 40 tubes in my system. I have swapped 3 tubes in the ... | |
| Threshold Stasis S/150 The Threshold Stasis amps were among the first high current designed amps available… ~1980. I owned a Threshold s500 for nearly two decades. When I replaced it with a Pass x350 the Threshold sounded completely anemic and tinny without a real midra... | |
| Tubes or Solid State? In general tubes tend to be warmer than solid state. In high end products they are not warm but just more realistic. In your situation. First, if you want to make sure your new purchase delights you, and does not just trade off one set of weak... | |
| Will a Chord Hugo 2 make a music streamer addition obsolete? OP, Unfortunately the DAC will not make up for a bad streamer… like a PC. My rule of thumb is that you want to just as carefully chose and invest about the same amount in a streamer as DAC. My streamer is actually about 20% more than my DA... | |
| Outlets and Wire Gauge? - Please help! I have never had problems like this with electricians other than they think I am crazy. I just installed 10 gauge Romex and use 15 amp hospitals grade or audiophile outlets either 15 amp like AudioQuest or Cardas. Typically most home subwoofers an... |