ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. @meiatflask Hats off to you! | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. @z32kerber Thanks for posting your system. While I had to look up a couple of the components. It looks carefully chosen and sounds like it works well together. Careful choices of components can assemble really great systems for modest prices.... | |
| Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve? @danager Some good points. I wonder what the total cost was… a lot more over my lifetime. The wonderful hours of music, and the hours of research have been truly enjoyable to me. My first career was as a scientist, so I love really comple... | |
| Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve? @jjss49 I have my K&E bamboo in my desk drawer… would you like to borrow it? I haven’t been using it much since 1974. | |
| Need recommendations for a streamer I am a big advocate of high quality streamers. I have used many approaches and a number of dedicated streamers and highly recommend Aurender… I now own two… see my UserID. I recommend looking at two components for upgrade… the Freya+ as well as t... | |
| How Important Are System Cable Upgrades and Where to Start? I think it depends on where you are and your timeframe. If your system is all brand new in a new location… that is one thing, if you have an existing system… something else. I do a system upgrade every 5 - 10 years. I change speakers typically ev... | |
| I’ve got the upgrade itch @soix +1 | |
| Amplifier Longevity Question OP, Interesting hearing more about your system. I owned Olympica 3 speakers for many years. They were real game changers for me. To me, it also reinforces the potential for your system to be significantly improved with a tubed preamp… I am a big ... | |
| I’ve got the upgrade itch I would recommend it, and the Atma-spherica, if you would like to take your system to the next level. The preamp is the heart of a system. Prima Luna is great budget stuff, but Atma-spheric is audiophile stuff. It captures levels of greater nuance... | |
| Basic question about power/watts The difficulty with Maggie’s and subwoofers is the integration. The Maggie’s are really really fast… dynamic woofers are slow. The only great integration I have heard is really big Maggies with lots of power. This can be subtle… so may definitely... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? In the assault of the high end I think there are at least two or three value camps. One would be high resolution and another maybe natural / musical and forgiving. You could probably come up with a couple more. But I get what Mike is asking… t... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. @liquidsound My condolences! Wow, that has got to be rough… you only live once. I have been lucky. My significant other (of 36 years), likes to heckle me about my audio addiction.. but she also recognizes that on average I worked 70+ hour... | |
| Implications of vinyl on musical trends? @sbank Well yes, I intended XX… but unfortunately My niece’s mother was crazy and XXX works with her daughter… as well a drugs… sad. Good news, she is 32 years old and still alive. I would have bet against it. | |
| Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve? I have grown my system from a $350 affair in 1972 to it’s current state of around $150K. I have methodically and incrementally invested over the entire time. I have spent thousands of hours learning, experimenting with cables, cords, and component... | |
| DISCUSSION: "It only comes out at night". Does anyone else have this experience!? Certainly if you just had a fight with your wife… that preconditioning will have an impact. This kind of stuff can be relevant. But I have honed my listening skills for fifty years. I can over time differentiating conditioning from real sonic diff... |