ghdprentice
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| SACD/CD Drive Mechanism Replacement Yes, Aurender has an app for the Mac Pro. So you can use it to control the streamer. I would recommend going with the transport you have vs buying something and setting back the date further of getting a good quality streamer. Life is too shor... | |
| VPI Industries---Love the Company as Much as their Turntables Thanks for sharing. I had a VPI Aries for around twenty years. Great sounding, dynamic and reliable table. Each time I upgraded my phonostage it sounded better, all the way to an Audio Research Reference phono stage. | |
| SACD/CD Drive Mechanism Replacement Don, You can use a phone to control your streamer if you don’t have an IPad. But, wow… not owning an iPad I can’t fathom that, we have about seven and most get hours of use a day. But that is a different story. Start with using your phone. Ge... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? @mceljo Good reference. Shows why Cardas can be great choices for many different systems. As far as I know Cardas is the only company that tries to be appropriate at different levels of component investment. | |
| I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do? @tannoy56 ”…Do you realize that most of the opinions you’ve got is from members whose entire system cost less than that, and they should be asking you for an advise instead.” Oh, I think you would be surprised how many folks here have good sys... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? @johnnyotto +1 Me to. | |
| Acoustic treatment ideas 👍😊 | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? Just a reminder that Transparent has many tiers. For me they all share the same characteristics of being very neutral and well, transparent. For me, after hundreds of hours of experimenting with many different brands of mainstream cables, to me th... | |
| Looking to downsize and for suggestions for amp(s) Then maybe a stereo version. I used Pass amps for decades. Although once I heard an Audio Research Ref tube amp in my system (with ARC Ref 5SE at the time) solid state was out forever. My listening sessions went form less than an hour to more t... | |
| Any Experience with Furutech Unfiltered Power Distributors I recently replaced, one at a time, my hospital grade outlets for Furutech outlets on my direct lines. Each provided a notable improvement in sound quality. | |
| SACD/CD Drive Mechanism Replacement The streamer and DAC are equally important. Typically it is best to spend equally… similar to turntable and phonostage. I have extensive experience with both. I have this theory that the DAC tends to set the tonal balance and musicality and the st... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? Great question. Of course there is no absolute without trying. But here goes. I actually bought a transparent cable and put it on inexpenive components long ago. It sounded terrible. But that was because I had a very noisy fatiguing solid stat... | |
| SACD/CD Drive Mechanism Replacement Don, Monthly fee… like $14.99 you get assess to over ten million albums and thousands of internet channels. Yes, about the cost of one CD a month. Streaming (assuming a good quality streamer) will sound the same as a red book CD or SACD if the s... | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? Thank you for the update. Such is high end audio. It is really easy to like something at first only to realize something other aspect is amiss. I will admit that the 707 was a very budget oriented power conditioner. I looked at it and thought if t... | |
| Start with Upgrade to DAC? @audphile1 +1 Schiit makes good budget DACs a Yggdrasil would be better… but not sure up to the level of your speakers. You might look at used in the $5K to $10K new range and you will get a much more fully fleshed out natural sound. I... |