ghdprentice
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| 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, Â Congradulations. Â 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 @malibu457Â Â Excellent idea. I highly recommend it and give give us your impressions. Â | |
| 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. Â 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 ... | |
| Preamp with selectable outputs? It is not that common a requirement and adding switches can compromise the sound quality. Â I simply use cable splinters on my office system to go to my amp and headphone amp. Then I can use either. There are one piece gold splitters so one cabl... | |
| Parity @bdp24Â +1 Exactly. | |
| Headphone amp and dac advice needed Wow, take it home every night. I had built a substantial headphone system at work for over ten years in an open plan office area (~ $7K) and never considered the possibility of theft… and never was. |