ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Opportunity to buy Demo Magico M2? OP, Good for you! Keep it up. | |
| Connecting USB streamer server to I2s RJ45 input of DAC? @artemus_5 Sorry to hear about your problems. You have such a great system. I am a big advocate of Aurender. I highly recommend you switch. With Aurender I just plugged my two Aurenders into my wall wart extenders… logged on to it with my iPa... | |
| New PrimaLuna versus used Audio Research preamp? Easy, used Audio Research Ref 5SE. I owned one for nearly ten years… now I have an ARC REF 6se. I also own a Prima Luna integrated. ARC’s preamps are world class. They have been at the forefront of the best sound possible for decades. Although the... | |
| Top 10 vintage cassette decks Nakamichi Dragon! The classic… incredible machine. | |
| Factory service for products from the 90's My experience indicates very significant positive progress in fidelity is made by the time ten years has passed. So, of course, old equipment is much cheaper, and repair can be inexpensive. An older amp should be cheap. Whether this appeals to you... | |
| What USB cable to get? @treynolds155 Congratulations. Yes, makes liitle sense, but it can make a big difference. My first huge cable difference between transport and DAC some 35 years ago. I was convinced it could not possibly make a difference. It was as if someone t... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @clio09 ”Too much out there at a fraction of the cost that is a better value in my opinion.” Yes you pointed out you are a value shopper and it is not a good value. Some people are going for the the best sound they can get. This is their marke... | |
| Old CDs and records @elmo2 So 16,000 disks. You are a collector. If you play one a day… it would take 43 years to listen to them all. How old are you? When I was working my average was 6 per week. Now that I am retired it is maybe 10 per week. I did this calcul... | |
| Does Aurender do Processing on S/PDIF Outputs? The rule of thumb is you have to try them to know, for the reasons @lalitk said. I have a N100h and a W20SE. My N100H is connected to a USB DAC only. My W20SE sounds ever so slightly better through my AES connection to my ARC CD 9SE. | |
| Best turntable for the buck How many albums do you own? A $4K investment in digital might be more cost effective. It is the future anyway. I have equally satisfying, same sounding digital and analog ends… both worth about $45K. If I only had a few hundred albums I would ... | |
| Are some streaming players more reliable than others? I haven’t had a drop out, freeze or any glitch of any kind for at a year. A high quality streamer should shield you from that. Both of my Aurender streamers have some file space on them… I copied a bunch of my albums (2,000) onto it, in case of an... | |
| Audio Research, AYON and Primaluna tube amplifiers. @j-wall Primaluna gets the big stuff right. The overall tonal balance, level of detail and bass. ARC goes beyond this. It gets the sound fully fleshed out and refines all aspects. Details like cymbals become unmistakable brass instead of just sou... | |
| Line Array VS Traditional Box Speakers, Why not just get the line array ? I only attend acoustic concerts primarily because of the horrible sound. When I attended amplified concerts I carried ear plugs to prevent damage or discomfort. After a while just stopped going. | |
| Differences between models of expensive vs inexpensive DACs In general, I would have to say yes high quality DACs are converging on a similar good sound. About 20 years ago this was occurring rapidly between tube and solid state gear (particularly preamps and phonostages) where the issues with both were ge... | |
| Basic switch....should I upgrade? I use a Netgear router via WiFi to a Netgear wall wart extender with Ethernet cable to a EtherRegen and cable to my streamer. My streamer / digital end sounds as good as my really good vinyl rig. Everything matters, but at the level of perfor... |