ghdprentice
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| Qobuz vs Airplay @goldenways Wow. I’m really glad to hear you are having better results with Airplay. I sure am not. My ecosystem is now all Apple M4 Studio, Macbook, iPads, HomePod, etc. and phones. I try and use it often… and it remains unreliable and Qobuz c... | |
| Help please! Something amiss with my digital chain Yes, missing a preamplifier is likely the issue. Digital equipment today can often be run without one, but they loose their naturalness... musicality. A high quality, I recommend a tube preamp should bring its heart and soul back. I would look for... | |
| Qobuz vs Airplay Airplay is appropriate for low fidelity portable devices where there is no other option. It is extremely unreliable, low fidelity, and I believe lossy. Qobuz is the best of the high end streaming services... Tidal is not quite as good. It is imp... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Anyone here practice meditation like mindfulness. If you nearly empty your mind and experience music... well, that is the opposite of critical listening. That is experiencing music. So, with that as a baseline, critical listening can be concentr... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? It is system and person dependent (highly age dependent). The better my system the lower the required volume has been to sound great, after I got past my 20’s. so now 65 - 75 db. | |
| New vs uses in your current setup 100% new. In earlier days I purchased used. I know exactly what I want and would like it to be in the most up to date form as I keep things for at least a decade now. | |
| Nordost Valhalla 2 Speaker Cable The unfortunate part of listening to burn in as... at least when I was working it could take nearly a year to burn in at the rate of 45 minutes per day. I just got myself a modest system that I hook up and leave on for a couple weeks to burn ... | |
| Best products and process to polish piano black KEF speakers You are going to want to create a virtual system. Click on you user name a couple times Dashboard and Virtual Systems. I can never find it directly... I always have to fool around with my user name and Dashboard before you get a long list includin... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? The amp is the only thing you want plugged into the wall without power conditioning. The rest of the equipment should be on power conditioning. | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 OP, Thank you for all of your additional information, But with that, I am still of the opinion that there is something wrong with your electronics. The volume of any of my systems in the last fifty years at 60 - 80% would have been deafening. I m... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life @gkelly +1 I am not new to this pursuit, over fifty year. But I learned early on that carefully investing more would always result in exceeded expectations. While my tastes have evolved, intense research, knowing what sound quality you want, th... | |
| Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables I did a comparison in the 1990’s and included a Home Depot 12 gauge power cord (with ends cut off, cut to length), cheap Radio Shack speaker wire and a set of Transparent and Cardas Speaker cables. The Home Depot sounded great... it was better tha... | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 @ozzy +1 The Watt Puppy 8 does have a notably harsh... unnatural top end. It’s doesnt’ ruin the experience... otherwise it is very good sounding. I have a friend with a pair. Even with very natural sounding tube electronics this is obvious to an... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? That’s a lot of stuff. The best would be to connect the minimum for a 2 channel stereo in one location and to a direct line. A power conditioned for the streamer through turntable through preamp… and amp in the other socket. I’m trying to be reali... | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 I think we should drill down on ehe blown speaker issue. How loud do you listen? I am familiar with Sonus Faber and Wilson speakers, I have heard them at ear splitting sound levels powered with smaller amps. I think the problem lies somewhere othe... |