ghdprentice
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| Help.... I'm scared to 'upgrade'! There are a number of great phono stages available that are incredible. I have stayed with Audio Research for over 35 years. The PH 8 or 9 are world class and I think incredibly cost effective. I now own a Audio Research Reference 3… an amazing ph... | |
| Over Tubing it? I own the best system I have heard (to me, and I luckily accidentally have an exceptional room). All my components are high end tube (~36 in total), Reference Audio Research with the exception of my streamer (Aurender W20SE). No question that ther... | |
| CD transports; do they really matter @majorc Thank you. I understand. @jl35 Yes, you are correct. However, high end equipment will incorporate transports in heavy dampening structures to reduce vibration, feed the exceptionally clean power, isolate from electronic noice ... | |
| How to properly stream TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer, et cetera? The best way is through a dedicated streamer… like Aurlic, Aurender, Linn, etc. You need to match a dedicated streamer to your system. It will buffer the bitstream, completely isolate it from electrical noice and vibration and supply a clean prist... | |
| Digital AES/EBU XLR Cable Recommendations I have used Snake River, DH Labs, Cardas as well as Transparent. For my system the Transparent sounded best. | |
| CD transports; do they really matter @majorc And the DAC, preamp, amp and speakers you played them through? | |
| The problem with streaming Once streaming on my system equaled analog, CD, and stored files it became apparent the overwhelming cost and listening advantages of streaming and consequently it’s future. I have over 4,000 albums… typically I used to buy a few albums a month… t... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @realworldaudio Thank you for that great explanation of what I have observed. Makes sense… particularly with double bass and other similar sounds… those are so startlingly differentiated and wonderful to hear once I added my tube amp. It ... | |
| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. OP, I was not in any way suggesting you spend $30K. What I was suggesting that in order to get to the same performance level it is likely you will have to spend something on the order of cost of your other components. Hence I suggested maybe a Aur... | |
| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. I have been primarily an analog guy for fifty years. Wishing and being disappointed by digital. Finally over the last couple years I was able to do it. It is not likely to be cheap. You can see my system under my ID. My best bet for you to accomp... | |
| No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio The pursuit of high end audio is not for everyone. | |
| Is rectifier tube arcing a problem? I have been running tube gear.. at first a couple components… more and more… now all tube. I have never had a piece of equipment that arched. If the second tube arched I would get rid of it. Maybe this Is just me, I have about 50 tubes in the two ... | |
| I need help regarding tube phono preamplifiers High quality tubed phono stages are not remotely noisy and are exceptionally musical. I have used tubed phono stages (Audio Research) for the last thirty years. I would listen to a solid state contender, but my experience has show that only good q... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @artemus_5 @bubba12 Yes, I was shocked and perplexed when I first moved from a good ss (Pass x350) to a tubed Audio Research Reference 160s. Two things immediately struck me… what a big reduction of slam… and how much better and more articul... | |
| Widely differing opinions - well, it’s complicated @russ69 Absolutely, another factor in the myriad. |