ghdprentice
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| New electrical wiring specifications I went down the 10/3 Romex route, std 15amp breakers. You can get special audio grade wire, which I am sure gets expensive quick. I did two circuits (I am using a stereo amp). This made a very significant improvement, very cost effective at around... | |
| use of ChatGPT for HIFI @fburkeen Thank you for sharing your experience. I've often found it valuable on audio topics. AI is an incredible tool and is great fun learning its strengths and weaknesses. I have been employing it in more philosophy / forest and trees t... | |
| Threshold S/300 STASIS problem with on off swicht When I bought my Threshold s/500 in 1979 (?) the switch was always pretty sloppy. But it worked for fifteen year. Not surprising some may have failed. | |
| Pulled the trigger on a Moon 861! Hope it pairs well on my Focals @audphile1 +1 Exactly. I have to say the same stuff... hopefully differently. 1) is the big problem. The second is reducing the fidelity. 1) There are two ways to do streaming with your Streamer / DAC. One is to "catch" the streaming service ... | |
| turntable/cartridge setup Thanks. It is great to hear about folks' experiences like this. I for one am not someone that should be trusted to touch a turntable. So, my dealer does it. He is a fanatic and loves it. But if you don't have a dealer who will do it as a part of y... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? " I’ve said this many times to the dismay of people who say (usually parroting what their dealer told them) something along the lines of, “but it provides more grip” or “but the transients come out better with more power”. I have fifty years ... | |
| How old is too old? Buy a streamer / DAC. And no moving parts. You can get the same or better quality and have access to millions of albums for $14/month. Enjoy your old age (I am)... exploring all the music you haven’t heard. | |
| Vinyl records & Discwasher cleaner If you’re missing the old discwasher, then go and get Last All Purpose Record Cleaner a bottle comes with brushes that work many times better than the old discwasher. | |
| Concentration Another great question. I find listening to music very rewarding in three ways. The most profound first. 1. Lights off, eyes closed. Opening my mind as in mindfulness meditation. Not focusing on the music... letting it in and emotionally connect.... | |
| Wi Fi Digital Source @mswale +1 Yep. You want to make sure your portable devices are controlling your Innuos, not streaming to it. So, you should be connected to your Innuous, not connected to Tidal on your phone/pad. If you are connected to Tidal on your portable ... | |
| What's ideal size for a listening room? Larger and more open sounds like the better choice. "Filling" is a very mixed bag. The smaller the room the more problems are reflections. I have a big Z shaped room(s). about 35 by 40. It is ideal. There are hall ways and asymmetries everywhere. ... | |
| What does you reference rig do better than your vintage rig or vice versa? Great / beautiful systems. Looks like both could benefit enormously from careful room treatments and possibly positioning. You're going to hear every imperfection on your reference rig. | |
| Vinyl records & Discwasher cleaner I think most everyone that was serious about music remembers them. Not of great value, although they sure looked like they would do something. I got a VPI vacuum cleaner over thirty years ago and cleaned all my records and then the thousand of so ... | |
| Footers under new speakers Congratulations Mike. Glad to hear you had such a great experience as well. They really make a profound difference... hard to believe... but that is one of the reasons it is such a fascinating pursuit. | |
| lightning storm @Wolf_garcia Perhaps flying an aluminum foil kite with thing copper "string". |