ghdprentice
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| Upgrade ....streamer or amp? There current P/E ratio of the SP500 is around 26, while the average is 19 with dips well below, typically over correcting in a downturn and upturn. It periodically reverts to the mean. Current governmental moves are reducing economic activity an... | |
| Using external DAC with preamp with built-in DAC Most high quality preamps do not have an internal DAC. I Don't recommend them, even if there is a slot. In general, you will get better sound by isolating functions. So, a preamp only being a preamp. Depending on your budget I'd looks a used Conra... | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood The Rosewood is a very good cartridge. To get the most out of it you need very good equipment and sometimes having one component much better than the others just does not get the most out of it I have a Koetsu Rosewood Signature cartridge. My ph... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass Have you considered, that maybe you are moving the wrong direction from the best sound you will be able to achieve for your budget? I immediately thought of some great choices of two way speakers in the $10K to $20K range. But absolutely not in th... | |
| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles I think this is a question of semantics. I completely agree that there are all sorts of tastes among people that love music and buy equipment to reproduce it. Just as there are among eaters. However, there are common folks and epicureans. People w... | |
| ARC Select Worth Price? I am not a tube roller in general, at least not for Audio Research equipment. I know Audio Research has put tremendous design effort into achieving the exact sound you get with the stock tubes and changing tubes changes the sound. I bought Audio R... | |
| Upgrade ....streamer or amp? I’m with you there. I am really enjoying listening to music two to three hours a day. My streaming system is as good as my vinyl and CD. Well worth it. I am not familiar with the Billie. But there are some tube amps know to be very synergistic w... | |
| Aurender N20 versus Innuos Zen NG The Aurrender N20 is fairly new. It was a major upgrade when released. Audiophile equipment like this is not released very often. Also, you really have to look hard to find something negative about Aurender, not so on Innuos. So, look deeply. | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Tradition or Serafino G2 Cool, congratulations. Let’s see photos of your system! Easy to add photos under virtual systems. | |
| ARC Select Worth Price? I did get a response from Upscale. He said to buy ARC select only if you have Audio Research Equipment and that these tubes are selected to pass higher standards so to hold up better in ARC equipment. To that effect. | |
| Upgrade ....streamer or amp? Honestly, if you think you have been affected by the stock market so far, I think you better save your money. If things keep going as they are what we have seen so far is only a prelude.. a small blip. | |
| Speaker set up for more than 1 person I have a love seat with the left seat in the sweet spot. The right hand seat is for my dogs... but if there are two visitors they get the love seat and can switch back and forth. I sit off to the side. I have never tried to expand the sweet spot,... | |
| Dedicated headphone amp vs Headphone socket on amp The headphone output of integrated amps and preamps vary a lot. Some very high end brands have terrible output. Your Rega is not one of them. It is known to have pretty good sounding output. I have used headphone amps from a $100, and at least a... | |
| What are your opinions of DSP's for speakers No, no, and no. It is hard enough to get the very best sound with the straight wire approach. Adding extra digital processing will be subtracting from coherence. You add complexity and then pile more stuff into multifunctional boxes and you lose... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area There has been a really large difference in woofer technology over the last forty or fifty years. Once the standard 12" woofer was used in substantial speakers. The bass was large, fat and sloppy. It would depend on the speakers. Some were very in... |