ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Krell vs Mcintosh @erik_squires +1 You really have to listen to any amps you are considering they sound completely different. Character could be the most important thing… as opposed to power. Krill and MacIntosh are very different… as is Audio Research and... | |
| Power cords known to produce good bass I use the current generation of Transparent power cords on all my components with the exception of my amps… they use AudioQuest Hurricanes. They are really clean, Transparent, with excellent bass. Highly recommended. | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often I’m pretty sure speaker designers go for sound quality first and end up with hard to drive speakers. I was a long term fan and owned electrostatic and ribbon speakers (Acoustat, Apogee)… I was happy with the journey… and owned several enormous hea... | |
| Preamp Advice/experiences needed Go to your userID. You want to create a virtual system. If you click around a bit.. you’ll hit on it. You can easily upload photos and add your components. | |
| An interesting experience with power cable. OP, Happy to hear that you got improvement using your new power cord. Power cords to the amp can make a huge difference. These days power cords are customized to either low current components or high current. The low current ones emphasize no... | |
| Seeking Recommendations For A Record Cleaner I have only owned two cleaning machines over the last twenty five years. The first a VPI… it both applied cleaning solution and vacuumed. It did a good job and lasted about twenty years. It was very noisy… jet aircraft noisy. I never thought much ... | |
| How do you find time to enjoy your $$$ speakers and system? When I was working and in the county (I spent a couple weeks out of the country a month). It was known to all that the ~ 45 minutes to hour before bed were my music time (distress time). My partner encouraged it because for over thirty years she s... | |
| Solid copper or stranded copper for speaker cables? What is your choice and why? I choose speaker cables by how they sound in my system. I learned long ago that high end cables make a huge difference in the sound of my system over just wire. Also, there are many parameters that determine the sound quality of what you use, lik... | |
| Help needed to sort out an annoying crackling/static issue with streamer I would get a wall wart WiFi extender ($59). Plug it in next to your system and connect this to your streamer via Ethernet cable. I operate my $150K system this way and the sound quality is the same as my high end analog rig. | |
| Matching Power and Speakers -- Much Ado about Not-that-Much? (Tube amps and speakers) It depends. Assuming a general match with speaker sensitivity. It depends on what characteristics you prize most. If you’re into slam… then more power more better. If your into musicality then you are more concerned with other characteristics ... | |
| Preamp Advice/experiences needed My experience is that preamps are the most critical electronic component and really set the sonics of your system. I was finally able to afford a great tubed preamp twenty years ago and will never go back, I am a big fan of Audio Research and Conr... | |
| Threshold Stasis S/150 Ok let me be really clear here. The Threshold amps are a great piece of history. If you want history,,, this is what you want. If you want high performance sound quality,.. what is your budget, we will help you find high end sound quality… it is n... | |
| Choosing new cables Given the high quality of your components I would recommend either Transparent or high level Cardas. Nordost must be high in their levels… so those will cost you… I don’t find lower level Nordost that good. Definitely an AudioQuest Hurricane or... | |
| going from tube preamp to solid state @nagel If you really love great sound quality you really deserve to own a great tube preamp. It is easy to develop a list of potential problems with a technology and stay a way from it. For several decades I stayed away from tubed amps. For ... | |
| Fee for home audition No standard. But that is strange. How much does it cost? If it is a $20K streamer or a $1K streamer… it makes a difference. One hour isn’t a long time. My dealer brings stuff to my house for free. He leaves it there for weeks. But this is ... |