ghdprentice
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| 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... | |
| Bought an Audio Research Amp OP, On Sonus Faber… the older… say more than 10 - 15 years tend to be warm. Today’s Sonus Faber, I am uncomfortable using the word dark. They are very natural and organic. But I would not call their sound cool, lean, or highlighting details. ... | |
| Ditch your USB cable for Toslink? Might surprise you! The largest selling cable companies are WireWorld, Transparent, and AudioQuest. This was from a survey on an audiophile forum…. Had a few thousand participants. I use almost exclusively Transparent, with one AudioQuest and Cardas power cords. I ha... | |
| What is the best 2 channel listening chair? @secretguy Sorry… yes they do. If you have a high back chair the extends above your ears versus only to your shoulder… you bet there is a big difference. I use a dual recliner that goes to my shoulders. Mostly for my doggies to sit and li... |