ghdprentice
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| Need Help Optimizing PC Audio Which Marantz? Do you think, if this step is successful you may want to take more steps? What kind of speakers? If we can get the bigger picture… we can probably be of more help. | |
| Cost effective power cables recommendations, low and high power What is your equipment? Amplifiers are particularly sensitive to upgraded PC. Depending on the components you have, there may be an optimal brand and cost level to realize the maximum potential of your equipment. In the case of all wires in high ... | |
| Cartridge burn-in The cartridge is breaking in. I have been an audiophile for nearly fifty years and into philosophy, which has turned into a passion about cognitive and developmental psychology. Your mechanical / electrical cartridge is breaking in. Just because a... | |
| Is AES/EBU or SPDIF connection preferred by Aurender N10, N20 owners? @vonhelmholtz 👍 I agree, you have to start somewhere and this is a very good place to start. I think Transparent have been in my life for 35 years. I bought my first set of Transparent speaker cables about 35 years ago… they sounded terrible.... | |
| Who is Gonna Buy A New Jeep Grand Wagoneer For the MacIntosh Stereo? Those blue meters are very seductive. Over the last thirty or so (since I could afford them) I have gone in to a dealership determined to buy a MacIntosh component… and every time left just as quickly reminding me that it was sound that was import... | |
| Is AES/EBU or SPDIF connection preferred by Aurender N10, N20 owners? @vonhelmholtz No problem. I am using Transparent. This was one of my last choices… coming from choosing mostly Transparent for the rest of my system. In my system, I was looking for really transparent… say as opposed to a touch warm and that ... | |
| Cabling Recommendations Given the high quality of your system I would test: Transparent, Cardas, and Nordost. These sound bring out the different flavors of outstanding neutral. | |
| Cables to settle brightness OP, Congradulations. The DAC should only improve as it breaks in and gets more natural sounding. | |
| Pass Then vs. Pass Now I have owned Pass since the Threshold s500, then x350 up until fairly recently. I can say unhesitatingly, contemporary Pass amps are tremendously better than the ancient Threshold. The character of the Threshold or his newer xSeries are similar… e... | |
| Streamer/DAC - Where is the value? It depends on your longer term goals. Will you keep evolving your system to better sound? Or is this next purchase an end point? I would recommend an Aurender A200 (combined streamer / DAC)… if you just want one and done. I own two Aurender strea... | |
| Who is Gonna Buy A New Jeep Grand Wagoneer For the MacIntosh Stereo? I used to be an exploration geologist and because of some logistics problem ended up renting a Wagoneer. I was in Northern Nevada, where the towns are over 100 miles apart. The gas tank was so small that I couldn’t get off road because I would not... | |
| Streamers/DACs @malibu457 Excellent idea. I highly recommend it and give give us your impressions. | |
| USB cables conducor - help What a high end cable sounds like is a complex combination of factors far beyond just the composition of conductor. Really inexpensive ones will take on the characteristic of the metal used. If you are looking for really high quality sound, th... | |
| Butcherblock Acoustics "feet" effecting sound and isolation @carlsbad @spatialking +1 Excellent explanations. I have a high end Silent Running Platform isolation platform under my turntable (the most sensitive component). I am using sandwiched elastomer / ridged platforms (Black Diamond Racing composi... | |
| Microphonic from Vacuum Tubes? OP, I do not think tube dampeners would help popping. If a tube is the culprit, I would find it and eliminate it. It means there is a big bursts of electrons jumping between the plates… that should not happen. I personally do not want any badly ... |