ghdprentice
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| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? 👍 Joyful anticipation 🎉 definitely! Hard worked for, heavily researched… the greatest things of life.  | |
| Elementary Question on Shortening Speaker Wire What you did should work. I will usually solder the ends to prevent misc strands reach over and shorting the amp.  So, what to do?  Verify both clips on the receiver have clipped down on their perspective wire and no  strands are touching th... | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? @bill_k  @elliottbnewcombjr  +1  I remember the spec wars… incredibly low distortion numbers for components that sounded terrible. I remember 70’s and 80’s Pioneer, Marantz, Yamaha, and Sansui… they do not hold a candle to high end equi... | |
| SF Olympica III to Amati Tradition I have moved from planar speakers to Sonus Faber Cremona as an experiment to verify what I thought… Sonus Faber have a really unique and musical sound. Yes, musical was the word.  Within days I ordered a set of Sonus Faber Olympica 3. I loved th... | |
| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? @kb673 +1 Ambien. | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Classical. For a long time, I wondered why folks that were into classical had the most expensive systems…. by a lot. An orchestra goes from playing a single instrument at near the level of perception to the entire orchestra overwhelming the ears ... | |
| Do You Clean Your Ears? OK, just for those that don’t realize this, this is a joke.  You don’t want to stick a q-tip up your ear canal because it can pile up ear wax and create a big pile and close it off to hearing… also making natural processes of removing ear wax n... | |
| Does anybody pay a pro to dial their system in? OP, you sound like you are reasonable. Maybe you should start questioning your gear. Benchmark is very detailed sounding… maybe you are looking for more musical gear. I think Totem is a good speaker to meet your expectation… I own a pair. The sou... | |
| Does anybody pay a pro to dial their system in? Once you have done the quick movements, and hopefully got some benefits. I will typically listen carefully for a couple weeks. Make next steps very slowly… with long intervals of listening so you can really detect the exact change in character of ... | |
| Considering A 20-40 Watt Stereo SET Amp If you want to seriously check out SET amps… consider a SET headphone amp. You do not need the power you need for your speakers. You can check out the sound and decide if this is the direction you want to go. There are other ways of getting more p... | |
| WAF - music to my ears Women have better hearing than men. They respond to high frequency distortion and high noise floors immediately. Unless, the music is presented without harshness and digital edge, they do not respond to the music. So, changes in your system have ... | |
| How should I upgrade? A new preamp with a phono stage or just a phono preamp? I have always been rewarded by incorporating the highest quality preamp and separate phonostage I could afford. Used Audio Research and Conrad Johnson tubed preamps and phonostage are among the best made. Going backwards in time and buying the bes... | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? Or just get a Qobuz subscription, it’s all organized and and annotated for $12.99 / month. Millions of albums, half million high resolution. Save a lot of time and money. | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often @steve59  Typically, speakers respond to the amount of current available…. Basically the number of electrons instantaneously available when a bass note comes along. Watts does not measure this. Amps do. I remember getting my first truly high p... | |
| Questions about Resolving Systems @rogerh113… “Resolution is a very nice feature of a good system, while too much takes away from that.”  Absolutely!   |