ghdprentice
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| You want a DAC that sounds *different.* What factor helps you find it? @pwerahera I’m glad you brought up Audio Research DACs. I own an Audio Research Reference CD9SE DAC. It is simply phenomenal, musical, and detailed. It made a huge difference (positive) in my system. My dealer lent me a Berkeley Reference... | |
| Amp straight into the wall OP, Audio Quest power cord. Worth saving up for. Well, it was in my system. Nothing is 100% guaranteed in every system. | |
| Personality Type? I don’t remember INTP… but looking it up__ sounds like me… fascinated with astronomy since five years old, a bachelor’s of science degree, practicing scientist for ten years, before deciding to turn around 180 degrees from reductionism to basics (... | |
| Anyone using 2 preamps in their rig? OP, “”My quandary is as I look up the performance ladder the prices get scary.” Yep, I completely get it. The performance gets more and more satisfying. It’s a question of what you value. Fairly early in life I realized I really gained great sat... | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones OP, I met my partner 37 years ago in graduate school. I told her I was into high end audio… but that she would have never heard of anything I owned. She said,” try me”. I had bought a Threshold s500… taking out my first loan of $5K… nearly $20... | |
| You want a DAC that sounds *different.* What factor helps you find it? First, I only base my decisions on the sound qualities. Never the technology used. I have had components basses on ESS DAC chips and they have sounded everything from terrible to great. It isn’t the technology, it is the implementation that matter... | |
| Mark Levinson & Others @jl1ny Sorry, my bad, I should have been more specific. An Audio Research tube amp. It is easy to forget they made some solid state amps. They are so known for their tube amps (and tube preamps, and tube phono stages). | |
| Amp straight into the wall That is simple: it makes a very positive improvement in the sound. Then, next step, put in a direct line to the outlet you have your amp plugged in to (and of course to the outlet your power conditioner is plugged into as well). The theory is ... | |
| Isolation Springs Deal OP, Great catch. Great deal. I am not sure I have this brand, but while I have a very high end SRA isolation platform under my turntable. I put this general kind of springs under all of my other components. They, even at $30 for 4 are a screa... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? Many of us have learned over decades. Learning to listen is many many layered, the information at every level is contradictory, the investments are substantial, overall sound quality depends on the whole system, many step are counter intuitive, t... | |
| Recommendations for small desktop speakers under $1500 @ddd1 Yes, the office is a challenging place to put a system. I put speaker stands just adjacent to my desk, at the same level. It isolates them from the desk and a bit away from the wall. It makes the triangle short on the legs to my sitting... | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones First, I think your post helps to underscore that different people have vastly different values. There is an element of fine detail that you really enjoy and drives your choices. While details can be good on headphones, most folks find them tremen... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer @herman The timing of the Streamer vs the DAC depends on the connection used. If you use the USB connection, then the DAC retimes the bitstream. If you use the S/PDIF or AES connection then the DAC uses the incoming timing. This is why it is imp... | |
| streamer need........... @carlsbad Thanks for your comments. Just to understand, what is your system? There is a place to display it under your UserID. The performace of a streamer is dependent on the rest of your system. So, it would be really helpful to understand... | |
| Magnepan .7 Alternatives I have been at this for over fifty years. I was absolutely transfixed by a set of Acoustat 2 + 2 in about 1980 (electrostatic… one form of planar, like Maggie’s). I owned planar for the following 30 years. Putting more and more money into the elec... |