ghdprentice
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| How Do I Choose A Phono Preamp OP, Â đź‘Ť Thanks for the update. I look forward to hearing your impressions. | |
| Basic switch....should I upgrade? @jerrybj  You have done some interesting stuff. But I haven’t heard you say anything about the differences you have hear in your system as a result of your changes. What have you observed? Reduction in noise floor? Dynamics? Small difference, ... | |
| Rogue 100 dark Over the last few decades tube amps have been becoming more accurate… more like solid state and solid state has been becoming more natural… both converging on more accurate and realistic. So, in general few amps of today have slap you in the face ... | |
| How Do I Choose A Phono Preamp @holmz Good question. Sound quality is both objective and subjective evaluation. For me, it began very subjective… chasing heavy bass, quieter noise levels and greater detail: making rock music more impactful and dynamic. But over time, I rea... | |
| Tube Integrated Under 1,500 Congratulations. Looking forward to hearing your impressions when you receive it. | |
| Nordost Cable Listed in Order of Importance @tablejockey  +1  OP,  Interesting. Thanks. My experience has been speaker cable, amp power cord, interconnects… othe power cords. but I do not have nearly the experience of Nordost.  | |
| Ditch your USB cable for Toslink? Might surprise you! I am a big Aurender fan. I own two of their streamers… including their flagship… which is truly incredible.. the sound quality is equivalent to my really high end audio end.  In general, optical connections are inferior to SP/DIF, AES and USB. ... | |
| Upgrade path direction I am a big believer in having a really good Phonostage… but that predicates a great preamp. To me the heart of your system is the preamp… companies like Audio Research, Cary, and VAC make really musical high end preamps. I would start there.  I... | |
| Best integrated amps That is a pretty small budget. NADs typically sound pretty good for the money. I think that is the model I had… gave to a friend. He is using it.  I would save up a thousand… then start looking. | |
| Mastersound 300b Compact-thoughts??? it got good reviews a decade ago. But at 12 watts what are you going to be powering? I love my 300B Woo amp with a lot of current powering my headphones. Â But you need very efficient speakers and the right sized room. Then it could be a great cho... | |
| My last audio purchase? Congradulations. It is great when you get a piece of equipment you love. | |
| How Do I Choose A Phono Preamp I am surprised at different peoples criteria. Mine has been:  1: Sound Quality 2: Cost So, for many many years I had wished my current Phono Stage had a second input. I owned ARC for decades from PH2, PH2SE, PH3… PH8… Ref 3. Finally Audio Res... | |
| DAC diminishing returns @danager +1 I have found that if you carefully research what you want in any component category and invest no less that 2x or more the cost of your existing component you virtually always get a “wow” improvement. Small differences or poorly res... | |
| Bought an Audio Research Amp A classic combo for really musical, detailed and great soundstage is Sonus Faber.  Olympica ? I think they are about right. But listen to them.. any decent pair. Their sound is very natural and musical… I am on my third pair after abandoning plana... | |
| How Do I Choose A Phono Preamp My first choice for phono stages is Audio Research… I think a used ARC PH8 is a real sweet spot. You will get the most out of your turntable and your next. I have owned many (slowly upgrading each 5 or ten years) over the last 35 years. Compared t... |