ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Bought an Audio Research Amp OP, Yes… excellent. That is correct, listen to a bunch of speakers. For me, I went listening to lots of different speakers… then one grabbed me…. emotionally. This was my first set of high end speakers… I was listening to them… they brought tears... | |
| Thoughts on the Linn LP12 turntable @daveyf +1 The audio technology of the 1970’s and now are like the slide rule compared to a super computer for calculations. Every aspect of high end audio have fundamentally and profoundly improved over the last fifty years. Linn is one of the... | |
| How do I get direction Ok. I have the answer. I just replied to an email and made no mention of an email address, URL, phone number, address or anything that could be remotely construed as exchanging contact info. But the email was flagged. Something like this happened ... | |
| Mcintosh MC275 alternatives? What is the rest of your equipment and room like? You are a MacIntosh fan? Lots of folks are… but they have a very unique sound profile. I am personally not a fan. | |
| Help with Aurender/Qobuz playlist Do you only have one? Create another one. Perhaps it is the default and until you create a second it is the only one. If not go to settings -> help and send Aurender a message. Typically you will hear back in a day. | |
| Analog vs. digital It is completely dependent on your components. While in the past analog provided a definite advantage that could not be duplicated… so there was an “analog” and “digital” sound, and resolution wise analog just blew away digital. All that is diffe... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Cables and interconnect performance is highly dependent on your equipment. It isn’t like the acceleration rate or miles per gallon in cars… where you can measure a the rates in both and make a determination. You get different performance with diff... | |
| Turn down the Volume! My previous system I called my “reference system “ as it was really good at reproducing the venue, scale, and volume of music. It was very detailed and dynamic… encouraging me to match the venue. I have season tickets to the symphony. So, I we... | |
| Turn down the Volume! @larryi +1 As my system has gotten better, less and less volume is required. I am sure there is more than a couple reasons. But the first most obvious is the noise floor. Less expensive and old systems like in my youth had very high noise floors... | |
| Best turntable for the buck OP, Yes, the impact of a great phono stage is incredible. I remember purchasing a $200 “A Recommended Component” Phonostage from Stereophile nearly 40 years ago. It sounded just terrible, I mean really bad. That started my upgrading that only slo... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES Yes, Qobuz sounds better and had about 500,000 high resolution albums a few months ago, while Tidal had only around 50,000. My dealer recommended I switch from Tidal to Qobuz for nearly a year before I tried Qobuz… the comparison was over in a... | |
| What is the best 2 channel listening chair? @dekay 🤪🎉😜. Good one! | |
| hearing loss and amp choices OP, Congratulations. As I mentioned earlier, I love this amp. Hopefully you will as well. Look forward to hearing your impressions. | |
| Quick USB question @larry5729 No question better quality streamers make a huge difference… limited by how good your DAC and rest of your system is. I have probably used a dozen different streamers over the last twenty years and finally started getting audiophil... | |
| Best Stereo Upgrade Value I think my answer is yes. I have been dedicated to pursuing high end audio for 50 years… since in college. I swapped quite a few preamps, phono stages… then CD players when they came out in the beginning. Then, I’m thinking I have done five whole... |