ghdprentice
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| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? OP, You ripped all your CDs in two days? Either you only have a few, or you may have inadvertently ripped them to a compressed low resolution format. I don’t remember how long it takes… but I generally have high performance equipment and it ta... | |
| 1st cartridge upgrade on 1st TT Would be helpful to see your system. There is a place under your UserID. @tooblue +1. Good choice for your first table also. I’m not familiar with. Cartridges in that price range. But many are… I am sure you will get lots of recommendation... | |
| Playing with Cartirdge loading on my phono stage I have been surprised that sometimes loading makes virtually no difference and then on some cartridges it makes a small difference. Surprisingly to me I have never gone: “something sounds wrong” and traced it to accidentally changing loading. ... | |
| Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve? @overthemoon I have read about the rooms full of people doing arithmetic for astronomers fifty or a hundred years before I went to college. In the ‘50’s every scientist and engineer carried a slide rule… or a book of tables. That is the way Sput... | |
| Chord DAVE DAC @curiousjim Thanks. Being a smart-ass since a child I got a lot of grief for it… but as an adult, a lot of laughs. | |
| A rookie with 10K, seeking advise Most of us build systems over decades. Typically this is how folks that really love high quality reproduced music with budget constraints do it. Each step should be carefully planned with the result of having a synergistic system with each compone... | |
| Comment about SS and Tubes Add photos under your USERID… add a virtual system. It is easy there. | |
| Questionable Tweak Yes… I don’t think it is a thing. After fifty years pursuing high end audio I have unquestionably experienced great benefit from interconnects, cables, power cords, vibration control, and some other stuff. Air quality… nope, at this point someone ... | |
| musician aquarius r2r dac any good? Congratulations, look forward to hearing your impressions. | |
| Help in deciding which tube preamp to replace my old SFL-2 OP, I use my partner in audio decisions… she has better hearing… she may not know the vocabulary of care about it… she instantly hears hardnessan distortion and says she does not like it. MAC gear is highly respected and owned by many. Howeve... | |
| Etheregen - doesn't seem right that it gets so hot, dangerous? Unpredictable? @fastfreight I have also found that taking a good component away can be often be more revealing than adding it. Particularly, I like leaving something in for weeks, then removing it. Getting past the quick A - B and on to a more long termed (... | |
| What have you discovered? I have been in IT most of my career (now retired) and an audiophile longer. I bet I have had more laptops, PC, MACs, streaming and storage devices than you. (I’m not trying to be a jerk, just state where I am coming from). I resisted buying a hig... | |
| Many of us want to Changegrade instead of Upgrading I have been satisfied at every level. Then after a time (saving money and enjoying my current system), would begin planning my next upgrade. Each upgrade and upgrade cycle has resulted in very substantial increases in sound quality and in my satis... | |
| Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve? @jjss49 K&E bamboo slide rule. I started school before the pocket calculator… for me, the first I could afford was the Texas Instruments SR-50 calculator (I could not afford HP35 calculator). My physics labs took 12 hours of work… 11 of the... | |
| New VPI purchase @testpilot +1 Congratulations! I owned a VPI for a couple decades. It was my first audiophile table and absolutely blew away (an order of magnitude greater performance) everything I had owned before it although some or them had respected ... |