ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Why is used audio equipment so undesirable? When I was younger and had less money I bought used, from a dealer. As I got older and my purchases were much better thought out and expensive I would keep a component for ten to twenty years. For instance I bought a new Pass x350 and traded it in... | |
| Disadvantages of buying old solid state. First, on balanced versus unbalanced. Whenever this option comes up, you really have to try it to see if one is better than the other with your components. For instance I have Audio Research equipment. ARC recommends the use of balanced interco... | |
| Recommendation all-rounded speaker (small room) OP, “Is that considered break in?” No you need one or two hundred hours of the woofers flapping back and forth to “loosen” them up and reduce the resistance to movement… they are stiff at first. | |
| Best Phono Stage @wolfie62 You should post photos of your system under your ID. It is very helpful in understanding where your opinion is coming from. | |
| Large speaker recommendation I guess I would say that more contemporary Sonus Faber are much more versatile without loosing their natural sound. My Sonus Faber Amati Traditional are in a room similar… but technically much bigger… and getting larger specs,ers has been strongly... | |
| Best Phono Stage I would recommend the highest quality Used Audio Research phono stage either PH8 or REF you can find for your budget. If you like a bit warmer sound then a used Conrad Johnson. Zesto are a newer company but highly regarded. | |
| Best room EQ? For an audiophile… none. Speaker placement, room treatments is the ticket. Not trying to be snooty. I have tried a few over the years, reduced sound quality and have not done what I required. Others will disagree. | |
| Tube or Amp Problem? Please help. Good advice above. If peak performance is what you are after then replace both sides. I would recommend ordering two complete sets. I always have a spare set. While not tremendously unreliable… tubes wear out and occasionally fail. With a thousan... | |
| Recommendation all-rounded speaker (small room) Boomy or wooly bass is a common artifact of speakers that are not yet broken in. Give them a hundred or two of use before concluding it is a characteristic of the speakers. | |
| Too Much Power They ever a showman Bob Carvar did a video once showed the power required to reproduce the sound of a pair of scissors doing one big snip. I think it was a short transient of 1,000 watts. Anything less clipped. But that is the point of massive po... | |
| Sunday dreaming about preamps... @saulh Thank you. You have put together what looks to be a respectable carefully chosen synergistic system. | |
| Do these look similar? @zappas 🙂😁😜🤪 | |
| Best Home HIFi you’ve listened to @grislybutter Used to be my favorite city as well… it has changed in the last four or five years… in a huge way… in the wrong direction. ☹️ I can’t tell you how disappointing it has been since for 15 years it was such a delight. Fortunately the... | |
| Just got started on Qobuz. Can anyone recommend an album or song? Qobuz also excels at having a greater selection of High Rez albums. As of mid-last year Qobuz had 450,000 high resolution albums and Tidal had less than 2,500. My dealer had bugged me to change for six months a while ago… I finally ran in para... | |
| Sunday dreaming about preamps... I own all ARC Reference components… I’ll just go with that as my vote. |