ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? My goal over the last fifty years has been to get my system to sound as good as possible. Over the first thirty of these years this goal has led me down some paths where one kind of music sounded better at the expense of others or detail / slam im... | |
| Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier @audphile1 😊 👍 | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects @akg_ca +1 | |
| Ethernet cable for music streaming Op, I have not re-read the thread…. But getting better sound at this point would most easily be done by getting a better streamer. The better the streamer the better the sound… it makes up for and problems with the network. I recommend an Aurrend... | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric @stereo5 +1 correct, Oppo and Magnestar are not in the same league. | |
| Warm relaxed digital coax I am a big fan of the Audio Research I-50 it is a great amp with lots of midrange bloom and musicality. That great tonal balance is coming from the I-50… you will not loose it unless you go to some very lean interconnect. I use Transparent with my... | |
| Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier Prohibited… perhaps a translation made by an English is a second language to a Japanese person. | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric In this day and age I would always look at a CD player as a DAC with a transport and assess it on the sound quality of the DAC. Then inevitably when you plug in a streamer you will get the sound quality out of it equivalent to playing CDs or SACDs. | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Over the last fifty years each upgrade has represented an improvement over the last. First for my main system, then I added a separate headphone system and upgraded it slowly as well. I guess it would be really hard to go backwards at all. I have ... | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects @w123ale +1 | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? @pindac If the versions are the same, then the differences in sound quality are likely to be between the Skyanalog Cartridge, JMW tone arm, Allnic phono stage and the Eversolo A8 / May KTE DAC. You should be able to confirm by lining up a series... | |
| Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier Op, yes to your last comments. How new is your amp? It has several hundred hours on it? Just checking. You want to make sure it is fully broken in. Assuming that. See if you can find a used high current Audio Quest Hurricane. Then let the sou... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Toshiko Akiyoshi - Let Freedom Swing and now Classic Encounters. Great. Artist and good recordings. | |
| VPI to What I loved my VPI Aries for well over a decade. The unipivot arm works well. I think if I had to do it over again I would have gone up a couple levels in VPI. Not that I don’t love my current system. | |
| Digital Path to Complete my System I had a Grimm mu2 in my system for a while. I felt it’s sound quality appropriate to the cost, although I think (separate audition) the Aurrender N20 sounds slightly better (lower noise floor) and the fit and finish on the Aurender is far better. ... |