ghdprentice
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| What I wish I knew before starting my audiophile journey OP, ‘Thanks. Great post. While I have been in this pursuit for fifty years and am still learning… a lot. Great advice. I churned a lot in my first few years as well… not as much as you perhaps… but quite a bit. At first unless you have experi... | |
| Speaker Pairing With Amplifier To increase the sound quality I would recommend going to an integrated audio amp. AVRs have too many functions in one box… and particularly older stuff. Given your interest in old stuff…I would look at NAD and Rotel integrated amps. They will supp... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @69zoso69 👍 | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @69zoso69 Wow, you have patience so far beyond my ability to comprehend. I have waited a couple months for speakers… but, a couple weeks I usually find frustrating. If I had to wait a year, I would be able to afford a unit a couple times bet... | |
| Tube Preamp --> Solid State Amp Since you have made an investment, I recommend you stop and enjoy what you have puchased. It takes stuff hundreds of hours to break in and sound like they… well, will. you now have a “reference system”. One you can listen to and understand the... | |
| Do Turntables sound better with time? I have never observed that. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen… but if it does it is pretty subtle. | |
| Best Speaker for a reflective room ? Take over an extra bedroom? I would much rather have a small dedicated space that I can control than a big area I cannot. I have heard jaw dropping systems in the size of a large walk in closet… and the great thing is that component costs drop... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? Great question. I always just assumed this was a given… and a problem that speakers had difficulty dealing with. Only a few sounds… easy… lots of sounds at the same time… difficult. Assuming three individual drivers trying to reproduce the whole a... | |
| Help. System sounds thin and bright or harsh My preamp has been the thing I loved the most… still is, my Audio Research Reference 6SE… the heart of my system. 👍 | |
| Audiophile sound quality from a more "mainstream" company? Well know high end companies… like Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, VAC, Pass, Aurender… etc. make world class products. I have used many of their lower level products…. They hold their own again the competition… but you can be sure each step up th... | |
| COX Cable Modem Question It is so what dependent on if you like fiddling with IT stuff or would rather not. If not… the better the streamer you own the better the sound will be. A good streamer isolates, noise wise, from your network connection and buffers the file… makin... | |
| 13.2, 5.1 and so on. "the best seat in the house" OP, Many people are not looking for natural… or recreating live music… they are looking for adrenaline creating rush of sound… maybe great details or slam. I was strongly influenced by these things. But I found one genera of music would sound bet... | |
| Worth upgrading my cables? I would have to say yes, a very very high probability. Given you are happy with your components sound… great. That is where you want to start. I do, speaker cables first, then amp power cord, then interconnects, then other power cords. I w... | |
| Help. System sounds thin and bright or harsh Unfortunately a better preamp will help, larger speakers, and swapping the amp. It just sounds each will make a pretty big difference, but one itself is unlikely to make the full jump you want. If you come to that conclusion as well. Typically... | |
| Absolute Sound's "Reviews" I have continuously subscribed to TAS for forty years. They recently moved to using ZINIO for their digital deliver system. They have had a lot of difficulty moving to the digital world. Over the last couple years I have spoke to the editor about... |