ghdprentice
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| Beginner Question OP, Many showrooms will use high end Nordost, which sounds fantastic. However is very expensive. Depending on your equipment and your budget, a different brand may be more cost effective. | |
| Turn off or leave on? Definitely turn off tube equipment. Some of my tube equipment specifically warnings against leaving the unit on or for an extended time or unattended. Most of my high end pieces have automatic shutoff after two hours with meters to track tube ... | |
| Transparent Gen 5 Super vs. Gen 6 Plus I have Gen 6… my dealer says the difference is profound… he went into great detail on how much better they were. I trust him. | |
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... OP, 👍😊 | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. My wifi connected streamer sounds as good as my high end analog rig. | |
| Nagra Classic DAC 3rd Party Power supply I used to own a Sim Moon 650d DAC ~$8K… they offered a separate power supply for $8K. With some reticent I bought it. It was well worth it. The noise floor dropped dramatically, which allowed the details to increase and bass was enhanced. Pers... | |
| Keep Vintage or sell for new Omg yes. I bought a brand new Threshold s500 when released in ~80. Then a T2 preamp … then a Pass x350 ten or twenty years later. I can’t begin to tell you how much better contemporary stuff sounds! Every ten years the sound was significantly... | |
| Pass INT-25 better than Wilsenton R8? Yes, make sure you have at least two or three hundred hours on it before deciding. Also, yes, tube and solid state will have different character. Over the last 50 years I have slowly moved to all tube equipment. If you are not thrilled by the ... | |
| Art Pepper fans out there? Yes. Thank you. 😊 Five albums… great… listening now. | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. I get fantastic sound through my streamer using a wifi extender plugged in next to my streamer. My streamer was not much harder than setting up a preamp… but it is a really good streamer. So it excels at isolation, not passing on noise… making up ... | |
| recommended speaker cables and interconnects @tom2015 😊. Yes they have, I don’t know why they don’t come up? Maybe they aren’t into marketing. | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers There are quite a few. But Sonus Faber for me. My third pair, Amati Traditional are pretty perfect… color, form, wood, and finish. | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? My experience over the last forty years of owning top level amps… although in the past mostly solid state (but my preamps and phono stages have been tubed) is that, ten years is a significant improvement in performance… and twenty is in a complete... | |
| Transparrent Ref XL vs Opus I’d ask the question of the Audio Afficianado forum. Your system is of the caliber of most folks there. There is likely to be a number of folks that have both and made the transition. | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes @vishu Really heart breaking story. That is a huge investment… in what should be a trouble free set of amps. Sorry to hear it. Road trip? I worked for a Japanese company for a long time. Our office was in Vancouver Washington. Sometimes som... |