ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Anyone Using Apple Music Classical? No. For high quality sound Qobuz is number one and Tidal is number two. There are no others in the category. | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? Yes. If I go to a new store I try an get to the owner / manager first and basically interview him to see if we click. If not I move on. There are some incredibly great audio dealers and some duds. I have had three dealers that have been friends al... | |
| Mcintosh MC-1502 tube amp The combination of B&W and McIntosh is classic. one of the most synergistic pairing for rock music. I would not worry. I would make sure you like the sound of McIntosh. what is your preamp? As I said, it is really great for rock. There are la... | |
| Speaker Cable Recomendations I would recommend Cardas Clear Reflection or used Clear Beyond. You have a very nice system, I have heard those components. Cardas will add ever so slightly to the warmth without removing the details and I think make the system sound a bit more mu... | |
| Anyone compare Zesto with Backert preamps? @oddiofyl So, your comments beg the question… why don’t you own it any more? Find something better? | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? It is entirely individual dependent. By definition an audiophile has an incredibly steep reward curve. Like I had a friend that was a marathon runner… endorphins would flood his system after running about five minutes… me, a tiny squirt after four... | |
| Looking for Tonearm Advice/Suggestions Tri-planar u12 or a Graham Phantom is the most obvious. | |
| Digital is as confusing as ever I have owned Auralic and Aurender as well as many inexpensive alternatives. If you want high fidelity I recommend Aurender. The Conductor app is liked by most. I have two Aurrender streamers (see my systems).They will work flawlessly while my ... | |
| Female XLR to RCA? While you can do it and the sound quality difference may be not be obvious I would not unless this is an intermediary step to get to a fully balanced system. High sound quality sound is the sum of every optimal design, component, sub component... | |
| Yes, digital cables matter too Thank you. Great evaluation and write up. Completely consistent with my tests and results in general. I am happy to hear you could hear such important differences from a BlueSound Node. Good to know. | |
| Need to build a headphone system The selection of components is intimidating. I put my headphone system together over the last twenty years. I have owned a lot of headphones, amps, DACs and streamers… in many ways going back to the early 1980’s. My desire is to have really music... | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? I have given away half of my 2,000. The others are acting as wall treatments. | |
| Krell vs Mcintosh @rsf507 +1 | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? @ghasley +1 @mihorn Alex, you completely discredited your post with the categorical statement “All audio systems in the world sound un-natural… except for yours. I read no further. | |
| Recommended Server? Aurrender. I own two after experimenting with others for years (you can see them in my virtual systems). The higher level one you buy the better the sound quality. Aurrender only makes streamers and they are among the best, if not the best at vari... |