ghdprentice
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| I feel bad for Generation X and The Millennial's @kota1 …”As for any "best era" of anything that just means you are stuck in that era. Nothing wrong with that but fresh stuff is good too.” +1 Growing up through your twenties is a time of maximum hormones and emotional experience / developme... | |
| Subwoofer connection XLR vs RCA @russ69 +1 | |
| 13.2, 5.1 and so on. "the best seat in the house" This is why there is home theater and two channel audio for music. Completely different experiences. While it is true live concert hall venues have reflections from the sides and behind… the degradation of signal by incorporating all those ext... | |
| I feel bad for Generation X and The Millennial's Genx and Millennials will have the last laugh when we are dead and be saying the same thing about HipHop and Rap… just like our parents said about Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra. | |
| Is there a 300B type amp out there with some WATTS behind it? I use a 300B (Woo) headphone amp for my headphone system. Then Audio Research tube amp (in triode mode) for my main system where lots of power is required. Once I heard the 300B of my headphone system… I upgraded every part of my main system to ac... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? I have read TAS, and Stereophile for forty years. Whether in the market or not I read them to stay in touch with everything. The market has expanded enormously over the years both up and width. In general they have done a pretty good job of adapti... | |
| Help. System sounds thin and bright or harsh My first thoughts all centered around positioning. But it sounds like you have covered that. Secondly floor and wall treatments. It would be really helpful to us if you could upload photos of your system and venue to virtual systems under your Use... | |
| Room treatment ideas for annoying external noises @mastering92 +1 Yeah. That is a real problem. Expensive sound proofing and choosing when you listen are probably it… unless moving is a possibility. I just really lucked out three sides of my listening room are underground. | |
| Can someone educate me on headphones and an experience of mine? Headphone systems are just like high end two channel audio systems. They get better with careful investment at greater levels… quieter background, greater detail, more natural sound and there are different tracks to end points, like highly detaile... | |
| Whats the ultimate goal with your pre amp ? The preamp is often called the heart of the system. I have always reached for the best possible preamp for my systems. This has always worked well. Putting a lower level component within the signal path will never help. You have to go to reall... | |
| New streamer? N150 vs U2 OP, Congratulations. Excellent to hear you are happy. What you are hearing is exactly what good streamers do. I’m sure you’ll have many happy years with it. Conductor gets easier and easier to use as you get familiar with it. | |
| Subwoofer boom is too much for me... @kota1 No I am not saying a layman should not use subs. I am saying he should learn about subwoofers and their placement and use the great tools available to help him… for instance that great video that explains the physics of placement. They ac... | |
| need amp recommendations for more separation of instruments OP, Your mention of the flute getting lost in the sound of the strings. I attend a symphony every couple weeks.I have ideal seats 7th row center. And the flutes… and all instruments go from being solo to “massed” together. That is how it soun... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @soix Yes, I have considered mesh… and someday will probably do it. A friend of mine had all sorts of problems with mesh… I don’t want problems. But I have fiddled with different cables and the etherregen into my Aurender W20SE streamer and, in ... | |
| Question regarding older phono preamp Sorry, I can’t agree that one should stay away from tubes. In preamps and phonostages they last for a very long time and can be replaced really easily. But mor importantly in applications of well designed preamps and phono-stages, generally ;ly so... |