ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| A little puzzled by my newly acquired Yamaha A-S801 I've operated a NAD with a couple inches of ventilation for a decade or more with no problems. | |
| Best ear plugs for both sound quality and reduction I used to use Kleenex until I realized the sound in concerts is terrible and too loud and I do not like looking at musicians... I like listening to music, and for rock and amplified concerts it sounds much better at home. I haven't gone to an ampl... | |
| No sound Excellent way to get by in the mean time and check out something else. I’ve got some “extra” components (Schiit) that I put now use for burning in cables that I acquired while waiting for delivery of something else. | |
| Vinyl audiophilia in the New York Times "So what do these boutique publishers really use for masters?" MP3 files recorded from the radio? | |
| No sound | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? I have had a pair of ADG Class D monoblocks in my system. My preamp is an Audio Research Reference 6SE. I was really impressed at the sound for the money. One thing, I will say, that when you take out one piece of equipment with a very synergis... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? @markwd Interesting chart. Thank you. | |
| Talk me out of buying Monoblocks and into a stereo amp instead I was lucky enough to live with both the ARC Ref 160s stereo and 160m monoblocks for over two years. I have auditioned a couple other pairs as well. The differences seem pretty universal when the only difference is stereo versus monoblocks. The m... | |
| ARC SP11 Mk2: Trouble free... up till now. Nearly 40 years... probably time for a tune up anyway. I had one of that era... and it worked for me for a couple decades, I gave it to a friend for whom it worked until his father came over an did something really stupid an blew out a channel...... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? I found that VPI turntables / arms have very substantial weight and scale. While sprung turntables are often described as lively, VPI and other heavy mass unsprung tables seems to have much greater weight in presentation, Then, the higher the inv... | |
| One box solution @riie | |
| At what level of Streamer and Dac does a DDC add no sonic benefit? I have not tried a DDC. But, I am a big proponent of having the very best components you can afford as opposed to adding things like external power supplies and I think DDC would fall into this category. When I have tried this, it has not been as ... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @emergingsoul Yes. like most audio equipment the difference generally is a significant jump in sound quality (that an non-audiophile could hear) for each doubling of the investment. My analog leg is worth about $50K (including the phonostage) an... | |
| One box solution I live down South here in the Portland area. My dealer has instructions that if I kick the bucket before my partner to sell my system and also my record collection in one piece and give the proceeds to my partner. | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? In general, ones entire collection sounds better with better sounding cartridges. As I moved from $100, to $1K, to $3K to $7K they also seemed to track in a different location and my 1960's and '70s albums nearly sounded new. I am assuming they tr... |