ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes TCPIP does a great job of transporting bits and checking that they are correct. Your router receives them (or they are caught coming off a CD transport in the case of a CD Player) and adds a bunch of electrical noise... they are processed in a qui... | |
| Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound @toddalin +1 exactly. In any venue I have ever been the bass arrival times are differentially delayed causing a wave of bass to wash over you, it is nuanced with different frequencies blended together. Never slam as is often desired and delivere... | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? Tight, accurate… nuanced… which requires tight… no overhang. Woofers have changed from big to small with greater throwawthey. An be much faster. | |
| Selling collection directly in the pacific northwest? @abd1 +1 The folks at Echo are also very knowledge as well. | |
| Dynaudio focus 360 I can’t help but think it has to do with the amplifier. It is very old 1990’s and is know as a high voltage amp. I do not know or pay much attention to design... but that sounds like an unusual claim... and if I remember correctly... that is diffe... | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? @ejr1953 +1... 52 for me. I used to attend a conference that had a big name band every year... Sheryl Crow, Steve Miller... etc. I would also occasionally go to concerts... for instance Pat Metheny. Not only too loud, but the equalization typic... | |
| What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you? While it doesn't happen often. Get on my bike and go for a long ride. Some exercise gets any angst out of my system and lets me enjoy the moment. | |
| Tube rolling signal tubes on Audio Research I/50 I don’t roll tubes on my ARC stuff, because the sound is crafted to be, well, that sound with those tubes (carefully tested to meet specs). Having said that, I look forward to hearing what you find, I did try NOS 6550 on my ARC preamp... the dif... | |
| Integrated that blew you away For me it was the Audio Research I-50... and it is inexpensive. It is so musically rich. Every time I listen to one, my eyes close and I am whisked away with the music. I wish I had somewhere to put it. My equipment is "better"... more powerful, d... | |
| "Good" Music I peruse the Quboz Latest Releases, Acclaimed by the press, selected by Quboz, also Quboz playlists. and the back of Stereophile and the Absolute Sound. Audio buddies send me recommendations, and there are thousands of internet radio stations on Q... | |
| I think I have an amp problem It does sound most probably the integrated amp needs service or replacement. As @newbee pointed out. I would try and verify it happens with the CD as well. | |
| Recommend a good router/modem combo please I have used top of the line Nighthawks and a couple other brands. I just got frustrated with Comcast pointing fingers at the router or modem and got the Xfinity modem/router. When there is a problem... it is their problem. In all of this swappin... | |
| Krell CD player replacement I would consider just improving your streamer. The sound quality of streamers now equal or exceed (Qobuz has 1/2/ million high resolution albums) the sound quality of CD players. Obviously you must choose the right one. I have listened exclusively... | |
| HOW can components be so expensive, and yet customer service is so bad. Sorry to hear you are having such bad luck. It is hard to believe some of it isn’t just bad luck. High end equipment is normally tested extensively before shipment. With the exception of a Sonic Frontiers CD player which had an unreliable transp... | |
| Should I buy another flat screen now while they are still relatively cheap? Good question. I have wondered the same thing. I decided to wait. Since even if the cost went up 50% they would still cost less than most of my audio cables. After years of buying by cost point, my last 78" OLED and 65" LED for the bedroom ha... |