ghdprentice
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| 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 ... | |
| Help in deciding which tube preamp to replace my old SFL-2 Sounds to me that we share a common aesthetic for sound. I own a Koetsu Rosewood Signature which has a very musical character. I owned a Sonic Frontiers tubed CD player for many years and use a great tube amp. You can see my current system under m... | |
| Coax or RCA question? I would guess the Marantz has a better DAC… so I would start there. Then after you have a lot of hours of listening switch. | |
| PrimaLuna Prologue 5 question I have one… I love it… for my office system. I would think 1/2 original price… around $1K would be reasonable. | |
| Basic question about power/watts OP, I would take your time and enjoy the process. Don’t be in a hurry. It is important to read through the hype and think about what you value. Make it a fun and calculated process. There is a lot of ambiguity in what vendors are selling, what y... | |
| How Important Are System Cable Upgrades and Where to Start? @lalitk I have always started from a stable and optimized system. Well, since 1980. As advice to the OP… optimize your system first… yes. As general advice no. It all depends on where you are. | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? @vonhelmholtz Your decision sounds reasonable. Certainly getting rid of the big pile of disk drives. I have been in IT most of my career… so I have about 50tb in storage… not including a bunch of source disks laying around. 1) my primary PC (14T... | |
| Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding? OP, Congratulations on the ARC REF150. Great sounding amp. Now, I would recommend you give up on your EAR and get a ARC PH8… or better yet a ARC REF Phonostage. Each additional piece of ARC is incredibly synergistic… culminating in a really... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. @meiatflask Hats off to you! |