ghdprentice
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| Speaker Cable Recommendations - Under 2k Just a reminder that wires are not better for all… like there is poor quality to good quality and this applies to everyone. While this is generally true with really inexpensive wires, it is not true with mid to high end wires. It depends on your s... | |
| 8-10k budget suggestions please Ok, if you were listening through your phone using bluetooth, then you are in for a treat… that is about the worse possible combination… OK, better than MP3… or a transistor radio. You need to be streaming through a connected device… so Tidal… or ... | |
| Bi-Wiring I had biwired speakers for a couple decades. But some questions first. What is your system and venue? It would be really helpful if we could see it. There is a place under your UserID to create a virtual system. This would be very helpful for ... | |
| Cable upgrade Congradulations on your new speakers. I have several recommendations. Do nothing for at least three or four hundred listening hours. Really get to know the sound of your new speakers / system. The speakers need time to breakin… a couple hundred h... | |
| Feets Don’t Fail Me Now Thank you for telling us about your journey. | |
| What to listen for? @zlone Thank you. I appreciate you kind words. @clearthinker I have the Nutcracker recorded there. One can hear the train passing under. | |
| What to listen for? OP, I think you asked a great question. One that you would think is easy to answer. But typically the answers will take you in the wrong direction. It is easy to be seduced by being able to hear some musician move their foot or some other tiny... | |
| Speaker Break-in Surround speakers supply so little sound to the overall experience that even if they require a couple hundred hours of break in, I doubt you will ever notice it. Over all over 85% of sound comes from the central channel I am sure 10% comes from th... | |
| CD and Network Streamers @vonhelmholtz I would think you intended to say, “hardly worth the time”. assuming you already had the CDs. I’m giving away my CDs. Fortunately I had ripped mine over the last fifteen years… so I put them on my streamer… but I never play the... | |
| Streaming Services OP, “…I’ve gathered that a streamer’s part is more than that.” Absolutely! it is somewhat like the turntable / cartridge in the analog end in front of the Phono stage… so the streamer in front of DAC. Stand alone, purpose built streamers simpl... | |
| CD and Network Streamers Hi Martin? There has been a lot of progress over the last ten to twenty years, quickly replaced by streaming. We have gone from CD players and Vinyl to streaming. I have been following and been disappointed by digital for decades… but then CD ... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? @jjbeason14 Sorry to hear your frustration with record cleaning. Surface noice is very dependent on your turntable, this is the primary determinate of surface noise. If you have a high end turntable, tone arm and cartridge… you are not going... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? @wesheadley… “Will all wine be in screw-cap bottles in 20-30 years?” You know… good question. Yes. I have a wine cellar with a few hundred bottles of red wine. I am seeing better wine having screw caps. At first I was very skeptical… the long tra... | |
| ARC LS25 MkII preamp - Phono amp? I submitted this to your other post: I highly recommend an Audio Research Phonostage. I have owned more than half a dozen. Audio Research has been known first for preamps and phono stages… I would not consider anything else. Buy the best use... | |
| ARC LS25 MkII preamp - Phono amp? I highly recommend an Audio Research Phonostage. I have owned more than half a dozen. Audio Research has been known first for preamps and phono stages… I would not consider anything else. Buy the best used you can afford. My rule of thumb is TT = ... |