ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Audio Research, AYON and Primaluna tube amplifiers. OP, Sonus Faber, Audio Research, and Transparent interconnects are a known synergistic combination. I got there by stumbling upward over fifty years of pursuing the high end. My most consistent preamp was Audio Research. The recommendation of a ... | |
| Where do you buy your vinyl? I think the folks above identified plenty of sources. Having a few new clean records is a great idea… so you can understand what a new album sounds like. Also, I would get a couple audiophile recordings. This will help you understand the limits of... | |
| Old CDs and records @rok2id We are in transition… so not surprising there are various takes on the current situation. The hierarchy used to be really simple, vinyl was simply the best by a long ways at nearly all price levels, then came CD, and finally streaming. T... | |
| Audio Research, AYON and Primaluna tube amplifiers. I am very familiar with ARC and PrimaLuna equipment and own both. ARC is absolutely top of the line equipment PrimaLuna is good budget equipment. From reading about Ayon… they sound to be a top notch company. For repairs and the like they have an ... | |
| Audio Research SP17 The SP17 would be an excellent choice. The preamp came with an option for a phono stage. Did it have one? I used a ARC preamps with Pass amps for at least a couple decades. Now all ARC equipment for me. | |
| A preamp recommendation After ten years of season tickets to the symphony and step by step moving my system to sound like real music… to have the details in the correct contrast to the foundational sounds… so the mid-range is bloomed like it is in natural sound, the ss i... | |
| What USB cable to get? I would not worry about it, Belkin is good. Cables and interconnects become more important as the sensitivity of your system gets very high. For the foreseeable future I would concentrate on components. Speaker wire would be the first connection t... | |
| Results with Audioquest Niagara 5000 / Dragon HC @nyev I completely understand on getting ahead of one’s self on breakin. I have experienced it for decades on almost every piece of audio equipment… but when I get it, I am so enthralled, I can’t help but taking notes and drawing conclusions ... | |
| A warm natural sounding preamp @jjss49 ”if one has been to a live, unamplified jazz or classical performance in a nice music hall, one will sense that "warm" and "natural" are not at all inconsistent”. Absolutely! I attended classical concerts every other week and frequentl... | |
| Large speaker recommendation @steve59 I would not expect that just because you owned and liked a speaker for a long time you would perceive differences as flaws. That has never been my experience. I have heard a lot of speakers in between purchases… some sounded incredib... | |
| Old CDs and records Yep, true. I just gave away about 700 to an aspiring audiophile who doesn’t yet have a complete system. They are worthless. I still have 1,500 in racks that are working as diffusers. I haven’t played one in six months or a year. My streamer soun... | |
| HT & Stereo System Fuel Shortage Coming According to Grid Operators The planet is saying it does not care. If human’s don’t stop it immediately and reverse what we are doing the Earth will stop providing a livable planet. The planet is moving rapidly to provide that hostile environment. For over thirty years this... | |
| Could I use my analog hifi system for commerical bar? Just a couple words on the business side. Unless you are independently wealthy… spend absolutely as little as possible. You have a concept… find a way to make it happen with no additional expenditures. Use your own equipment. Talk to local audio s... | |
| Results with Audioquest Niagara 5000 / Dragon HC @nyev Great discussion, thank you. Very valuable. | |
| I finally got a record cleaning machine. First thoughts. @mijostyn Yes, it seems to work… that is great, cheap is great. |