ghdprentice
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| Nagaoka MP 300 Cartridge I think the rule of thumb is around 1,500 hours. Van den Hull advertised some of his cartridges (at least the Frog) was good for 3,000 or more (twice the average). Mine had well over 2,000 when I sold the turntable… it sounded perfect. | |
| What are the characteristics of Hifi geared towards good reproduction of classical music? Some good attributes have been brought up. But I think to get them the first step is speaker selection. This will drive all other choices. I would assume that over the long run you will need to spend ~35% on speakers (highly variable depending on ... | |
| Custom Tuning Conspiracy I think you used the correct word, conspiracy… as in conspiracy theory. You are pondering an idea and using assumptions of intent, overly broad assumptions about the state of the world and how it works to come to an absurd conclusion. The manufac... | |
| Maintaining a "Balanced" System Design? OP, If you are considering a speaker option change then definitely do not move forwards with cables and interconnects until you have your final destination speakers. Typically in an upgrade cycle one will choose speakers first… then work on t... | |
| What is the most important cable in your system What is your system? It may not matter or mater a lot depending. If this is a DAC / Preamp question it would be likely to be there.. but with a processor involved it probably will not matter. Processors often do not have high enough resolution to ... | |
| Experience buying from Europe? How much is the turntable worth? For instance, If it is $15K I don’t think it is worth it. It depends also on your personality. I have purchased solid state electronics from Germany. I bought a CD player from Canada and over ten years had to send... | |
| Maintaining a "Balanced" System Design? Congratulations on your ARC equipment. I have been a fan of ARC for forty years and only slowly over that time were able to buy, used at first and finally moving up over the last few years to all Reference level Audio Research gear. You can see my... | |
| Cartridge or tonearm problem? OP, Cool. It is great if someone can help. That is the point of the forum. | |
| Potential upgrade path… I have always believed that given what I know now is that I would rather have a top notch system in a large walk in closet than a big system in an big common area. But it can be a small system in a large area as well. Assuming you have no cho... | |
| Power cable dilemma The Pangea AC-14… assuming that was what you have is made for components like CD players. So, it is made for low current applications. It is also very far at the low end of the budget category, so, I would be surprised if it would sound better tha... | |
| Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time? @akg_ca Thanks for relating your experience. Sounds like you had a good test situation. When I recently put in a new direct line, I noticed a substantial increase in sound quality, but not change after that. But I wasn’t paying close attentio... | |
| Aurender N10 display issue @jl1ny +1 yep my experience as well. For those that don’t understand what it means to diagnose and fix remotely. I my case, I sent a message through the Conductor app that I had an issue. During the night they logged on to my Aurender strea... | |
| Dedicated Line - Things to consider @immatthewj Yes, universal agreement on the benefit of direct lines. Sure, beyond that, I am sure there is additional benefit to audiophile grade wire, specifics of the hookups, increasing grounding… it goes on forever. I just tend to go one... | |
| Power cords: Anticable vs Mad Scientist @soix Thank you. I enjoy sharing, but also I learn from other thoughtful folks, like yourself and by thinking about the questions posed. | |
| Too much power? OP, It seems you are investigating the right things. I have had season tickets to the Oregon Symphony for ten years, 7th row center. Over this time the softest music slowly rises out of a black background and crescendos we’re a bit to much for my... |