ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Silver Speaker Cables Yes there are budget silver cables. The issue can be that cheap silver cables can be unflatteringly revealing on your components. The better the silver cables the less harsh they are. So my first question is what is your system. There is a plac... | |
| Its not vinyl @jond +1… which for me is virtually the same. Digital came up short for 38 of the last 40 years for me. | |
| Don’t fight your speakers. OP, +1 You can see my current systems under my ID. | |
| 12'x16'x8' room OK for good stand mounts? I think you have a lot of room to choose your speakers. Your room is big enough for a 6 - 7’ triangle.. so three feet behind the speakers and three feet on either side of the speakers. And to have 4 - 5’ feet behind. If you add dampening to the fr... | |
| Don’t fight your speakers. Yes, speakers are critical. You are right, if they don’t suit your taste… trying to change their character by upstream components is very hard and unlikely to work. I auditioned NHT when they were a thing for home theater… did not do a thing f... | |
| Bookshelf vs diffuser panel. Who wins? OP, The cylinders are tube traps. I have owned a pair for 25 years. With my current room (large) they are not so important. But in smaller rectangular rooms they are. In side is designed to face outwards and reflects high frequency and midrang... | |
| Tuner - FM over the air - suggestions OP, I lived in Tucson for 25 years. I loved it. You do know it is ground zero for climate change? Water problems as they are mining irreplaceable ground water… etc. We reached the tipping point for climate change a few years ago and the heat is ... | |
| Request recommendations to purchase a streaming device My recommendation is that an appropriate streamer (assuming you want high quality sound) is a component just like a preamp, amp, DAC, or Phonostage and needs to be carefully chosen and allocated roughly equivalent funds as you invested in any of y... | |
| Direct Drive OP, Wow. Sorry to hear. I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. I still remember driving down and trying out my first car… used. Bought it, ran… until the battery ran down. That is when I learned what the pulley in the truck was for… but could not ... | |
| Its not vinyl I have been into vinyl for over 50 years and digital 40 years. There is a lot of history and progress. Both of the basic amplification and speakers as well as source components. We have reached the point where either digital or analog can sou... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @soix. +1 ignore @kuribo | |
| I have seen a lot of ideas concerning Cable lifters @pprocter Excellent! Look forward to hearing the outcome. I think cardboard X’s with rubber bands across the top will produce a very positive effect if you have a sufficiently resolving system. | |
| High efficiency desktop speakers I fiddled with my desktop system for years. Ultimately converging on a wonderful system. Just like most folks main systems I chose the speakers first. For me they were Totem Mites… and a matching Totem Subwoofer. Then I built out the rest of the s... | |
| Power cords or power conditioner @thyname +1 I would like to see @pcrhkr ’s system and venue. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @pstores You are correct and folks that have pursued the best sound possible for decades… while may have somewhat different tastes will completely agree with you. If @kuribo likes tinny dead sound, like he said… it’s up to him. But, for folks wi... |