ghdprentice
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| Thoughts About Turntable Upgrades OP, Congratulations on your digital end. It is still difficult to get digital to exceed vinyl in the price category you are in even today. Great work! A Soto Saphire is a good choice. Also you can look at VIP. By getting a table in the $5K ra... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers Sitting On Dual Subs? Vibration is a killer of high sound quality. Subwoofers are vibration devices. So if you want good sound quality, no. You want very sturdy, heavy (typically filled with steel shot) speaker stands to place the tweeters at the exact listening level.... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender Lots of interesting discussions on speed. But music streaming uses very little bandwidth and good streamers buffer or cache the files… so all you need is a trickle. My streamers work flawlessly when I am have had trouble loading a web page to my i... | |
| Audio Research REF 750 pre July 4 FIRE WORKS. TUBE ARC. Sorry to hear about your problem. It is really terrible to happen before holiday after receiving your updated preamp. I would say this is a very uncommon problem that only very occasionally happens to tube amps. It almost never happened with prea... | |
| What's the point of reviewing? @jjss49 Yes… you got it. If I had $500K - $1M I bet you I would own them. To completely customize everything… room, all electronics… they would be great. | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source OP, Let’s start from scratch here. You have a good piece of high end audio equipment, the Mark Levinsion 585.5. You do not want to be hooking that up with iPads, laptops or PCs. These are very low quality sources and will be reflected in the o... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? In general, a good solid rack will do the job. You get the best components you can, upgrade all the wires… which increase performance, then power cables, then room treatments, then isolation devices on you stable platform. While you can certainly... | |
| Why do speakers improve with more powerful amps? @ricco275 Yes, sometimes. But ultimately it is the whole system, and really important to have that power paired with the right speakers. 60db is fairly low… I typically listen at volumes I in the low 70’s. But I am using a 70 wpc tube amp. Wh... | |
| What's the point of reviewing? Magico are extremely accurate and fast speakers. Almost every setting I have heard them has either had less than ideal electronics or a room that was not ideal and they sounded terrible. You get speakers of this high a quality and you need an appr... | |
| Low Powered Tube Amp Distorting High Efficiency Speakers? My 50 year history in high end audio primarily comes from the massive power / current amplifiers in the beginning, working down in power to the 70wpc of triode tube amplification I have now. But what you describe is classic under powered. | |
| Ayre QX-5 Twenty I have owned a QB-9 for around a dozen years, I had it upgraded to the QB-9 Twenty about the years ago. It is an outstanding DAC and also for the money. Relaxed, details, natural. Excellent DAC. A great company that upgraded my 8 year old DAC for... | |
| 300w tube amp monos - which one? At this level you want to hear them. I am very much an Audio Research person, but recognize Conrad Johnson and VAC in the same general sound space. MacIntosh is very different sounding. Not very detailed with massive bass and midrange… the mus... | |
| Can an audio rack be that important? @mikelavigne +1 right on. | |
| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? @kennyc if this is your budget… great place to start! | |
| Aurender Conductor app reliability and user experience The Aurender Conductor is a solid app that is easy to use and rock solid. If someone is having issues with connectivity it is probably their network, not the Aurrender. OP… you want to purchase an N level streamer only product. Then you can ch... |