ghdprentice
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| custom made speaker stand legtips - rubber or metal - not good vibration @grislybutter Cross bars… function entirely. My experience has always been ridged support of speakers is key. My experience with tripods has been poor. But over time, I have upgraded my telescopes and tripods to world class ones (another obse... | |
| Opportunity to buy Demo Magico M2? OP, Sounds like you are making progress. I have heard a lot of Magico and Wilson systems. I have always been very impressed… but also, I do not want that. At the highest level you get incredible detail… and natural sound,.. to a point… but you ca... | |
| custom made speaker stand legtips - rubber or metal - not good vibration Nice. I would do anything you can to stabilize and ridgidify the stands. All my tripod telescope mounts have ridged connections between the legs about 25% down from the top. I could see the rubber at the bottom adding a bit of rigidity to the desi... | |
| Opportunity to buy Demo Magico M2? @twoleftears +1 Well put. | |
| What are we objectivists missing? Too many variables to measure. For instance the delay and “smearing” of the signal by micro capacitors set up at crystal boundaries in the wires. There is no way the track the electrons to see which are being retarded and to make sure there are no... | |
| Turned back into a music lover I used to live in Tucson. When I took a couple years off from work to have fun I found PDQ Records. It was enormous. I rode my bicycle over every day or two. Wonderfull experience… and largely responsible for my great collection now. Folks from St... | |
| Usb cable recommendation OP, +1 DH Labs. This is my go to for budget stuff… which I then can use as a base level to upgrade. Wire World Starlight is often used as a base level. But, while I have a couple… they have not been that impressive to me.. I’d go with DH L... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? Having tried every portable device, PC, and Mac I can say with certainty, depending on your other components, the returns are exceptional to at or above your average component cost. [I do not mean blindly using cost as a proxy for sound quality an... | |
| Do you consider cables to be a "component" of your system? I always upgrade speakers (every 2 or 3 cycles) first, then components, then cables, interconnects, power cords last. This reflects the typical degree of effect on tne sound. Occationally an interconnect or cable will have a large outsized effect…... | |
| Is Mark Levinson still considered up there with the best of the best? My Lexus has a Mark Levinson system as well. Much better than an after market system. But it is also very much in line with the sound I associate with ML. My 4Runer has a JBL system… completely different, not at all accurate… very exaggerated, bra... | |
| What type of wire for dedicated 20A AC lines? @avl1947 I have two dedicated lines put in 20 years apart. Congratulations. You will be very happy. I have never heard of an instance of this not helping. I never thought about direct line breakin… but my system has improved over time… so may... | |
| Monstrous power cables OP, Learning to listen takes time. It is a big challenge. Music is constantly changing… instruments, notes, timing, etc. one’s mind focus workes by concentrating on one thing at a time… but with music, that is constantly changing and our memories... | |
| Homage to those who are pleased with your audio rig OP 👍 | |
| Internet Speed @erik_squires +1 keeping in mind that the throughput of 5 ghz drops off with distance much faster than the 2.4 ghz channel. In general about twice as fast. In my house thirty to thirty five feet and the throughput of the 2.4 ghz channel eclip... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. I feel a bit inclined to defend BB / Magnolia. In general, they have employees that know more than nothing. They are salesman… but people as well… so some are great some good and some not good. They sell low end and mid-fi to mostly people that kn... |