ghdprentice
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| Best Phono Cartridge for VPI Titan Turntable You are correct, it is subjective. So here is what I value. I love detailed but musical and natural sounding cartridges. I like a slightly forgiving sound… so I can enjoy the music. I stay away from “detail scrapers”… that are so revealing the... | |
| How Are You Using Bass Traps? It is room dependent. I have a large room ~30’ across the speaker wall. I use the corners for bass trap storage. I had bought them for a previous home. I wouldn’t consider them a cost effective solution for my home. Also, I am pretty sure all ... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming @christianb5s4 Thanks for your observations. It sounds to me you confirm the state of the art. The components you choose determine the sound you hear and they can be close in sound quality. Therefore, carefully chosen streaming can probably equa... | |
| Using Qobuz with Bluesound 2i Congratulations. One of the best benefits of Qobuz is the half million high Rez albums as well. | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming OP, You are correct. But technologies reach tipping points a point where the financial and sound quality proposition is overwhelming, in my opinion that has happened with streaming. Yes, I think the better investment is streaming. So, you hav... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. For me PRAT was probably the most difficult term to sense. It was always just a bit outside of my ability. But once I was able to figure it out one of the most important in parameters in establishing an emotional connection with the music. A reaso... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... You need a real high end streamer. Your other equipment is excellent. I used to run a Moon 650 DAC / CD player. I streamed from PCs and MACs for years to get nowhere near CD quality until I bought a high quality streamer. My first was a Auralic A... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming I do not believe there is any compression at all from Qubuz or Tidal for that matter. By todays standards the bitstream for music is minuscule. My streamer worked seamlessly while I can’t refresh my News page on my iPad. Since high Rez from my s... | |
| would I benefit getting a balanced amp (BAT 55se) - given my pre-amp is RCA output @carlsbad +1 Best you chose your amp based on its sound. In the case of real audiophile equipment this is the determinant factor (BAT definitely qualifies). Then deal with which connectors to use. Your next preamp will undoubtedly have ba... | |
| Is there such a thing as a FOREVER DAC/streamer? @kota1 I have always found plateaus that I am really happy with for seven to ten years. Where I have no interest in upgrading… I don’t want to screw up the synergy created between all my components. I read The Absolute Sound and Stereophile… etc... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming A great streamer isolates, buffers, and translates the incoming signal. It sounds like it is not doing a good job on the streaming side. It sounds like you may be able to make up for that by doing things with your network. Or, as I mentioned, upgr... | |
| Router for Audio Streaming @stevea11757 Yeah, I would definitely ignore what your VZ guy said. Although you may not want to tear your house apart to put in wired Ethernet… you sure don’t want to take it out if you have it. If you are dedicated to high end audio typica... | |
| Cables to settle brightness @bondmanp I would suspect your streamer. I highly recommend Aurender. Either one of there lower level models or an older one. They are detailed and incredibly natural sounding. I have two of them after owning and researching the daylights out... | |
| Upgrade path question. Upgrade analog or turn to digital? I guess I would start with how old are you? I’m 70 and have had vinyl all my life. So, it was great having my really good vinyl rig as a comparison as I brought my digital up to the level of my analog… a nearly forty year odyssey. I listen 98% of ... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming Streaming of red book CDs in my system sound exactly the same as CDs and streaming typically better because streaming has high Rez versions.. Actually streaming in my system sounds as good as my very high level vinyl playback analog leg. It is li... |