ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Vinyl Lovers Very nice system. Enjoy. One of the reasons I asked about your equipment was because I have found there is a level of turntable that radically drops the surface noise and tracks very much better… kind of the audiophile threshold. | |
| Luxman L-509X as a preamp Op 👍 @eugene81 +1 | |
| Why Can't Modern Tube Manufacturers Make a Proper Tube? @pindac I must disagree that tubes have had their day in high end audio. Certainly from an overall perspective… consumer goods… etc. But in high end audio a number of companies attempted adoption and backed off because they could not reproduce w... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? @ozzy Congratulations. They look amazing. Can’t wait to hear about them. | |
| Another Fedex problem... I would contact FedEx. FedEx was the premier delivery company until a bout five years ago… since then they have been falling apart… UPS has been gaining In technology and customer care over the last few years. I have had occationally incid... | |
| Stereo or monoblocks So you have two integrated amps. You are using one as an integrated and the amp as a monoblocks… you are only using the second as a mono amplifier? Ok, with nearly 100% certainty that is not optimal use of funds. First integrated amps are a co... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? Oh, come on @ozzy .. don’t bait us like that. What did you order? | |
| Toslink @yage OK, thanks, but in the high end audio world SP/DIF has been the preferred connection for decades and AES is relatively newer. | |
| Really Long XLR OP, You have a very nice system. I don’t recommend going bottom tier stuff like Blue Jeans, Belkin,, etc or lower tier like Mogami. My experience with these have been they are no better than what you get free. Maybe do it yourself… but conside... | |
| Nordost reference jumpers vs second set of cables OP, I have all Audio Research gear. I find it is very synergistic. While I have experimented with different tubes on other equipment, I have never done so on ARC stuff… because first and formost the company has very carefully chosen every compone... | |
| Qobuz email looks suspicious I always delete any remotely suspicious emails. Then I go to my browser and log on to the real companies site. There is never anything there. I have gotten fake emails from: Wells Fargo PayPal FBI Master Card Norton Microsoft and a number t... | |
| Streamer Selection - Thoughts Requested Please! Having owned a Aurlic and now owning two Aurender, I definitely recommend an Aurrender. Extremely high quality sound, built like audiophile equipment, fantastic service. While Roon provides some additional search capability, to my mind it is not w... | |
| Toslink I think Toslink is still most likely to be an inferior interconnect. It has two extra stages in conversion that are unnecessary. Also, for most companies it is an add on just in case… so stock electrical -> optical and back. It is not so much t... | |
| Really Long XLR Moving your equipment can from between your speakers can have a very positive effect. I think mine are 25 feet or so. Depending on your system the quality of the interconnects are important. Fortunately this time I was able to buy the same quality... | |
| Affordable SS that sound like Tubes @audioman58 I get that. I remember hearing great Sansui equipment when I was in college in the 70’s before I discovered / could afford high end equipment. Then over the ensuing fifty years equipment has become better and better. But it is har... |