ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Listening Room High employment, rising wages, dropping inflation… which has been two or three times higher in the past, stock market making new highs. Sounds pretty good to me, and I’m retired. The US has the sixth highest income in the world, with only tiny cou... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? Given my values of musical and natural sounding music Sonus Faber and tube equipment like Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, and VAC is perfect. The combination captures the warmth and depth from a sax or female vocals, but rises to high impact elect... | |
| Youtube audiophile hi res sounds MUCH better than my Eversolo streamer @pinwa Cool album… sonic effects oriented. | |
| Surge protector OP, 👍 I’m old enough as well to just not worry about a lot of stuff. Yes, a once in fifty years kind of thing is worth not worrying about. I remember putting UV filters on my Nikon lens to protect them. What a waste. I stopped that twenty yea... | |
| Amp vs Preamp Yes both. But often the preamp is sited because it is further up the chain and anything lost or tipped in a particular direction is simply lost to the amp. The preamp is about nuances and small signals… so you want a really good one. So, in this ... | |
| Mood @asctim I am fortunate in not having wide mood swings and/or in not having them effect how music sounds to me. But I have no musical skill in hearing or performance… none, whatso ever. When in high school my best friend was getting into guitars…... | |
| Need some treble What are your speakers? | |
| New DAC issues I guess, first thing would be to get at least 200 hours on the DAC. Some require more… 300 to 400 or more. Most of my components took 600 hours to get really close to their final sound and did not stop improving until 1,000 hours. This is particul... | |
| Mood My mood doesn’t seem to affect my perception of the sound of my system. | |
| Importance of clocking @mapman Very good, simple, elegant solution. | |
| Tube preamp recommendation for a simaudio 760a amplifier I would look for as contemporary Conrad Johnson, Audio Research, VAC, or Presto. These are mainstream audiophile preamplifiers built by companies with decades of experience with a commitment to natural musical sound reproduction. They are built l... | |
| Still the demons of GAS pursue me Good thing reality set in… a good problem to have… your current system is clearly far beyond the dreams of yesteryear. The trick is to flip that feeling of regret into joy. | |
| Is there anything other than a Benchmark DAC? Audio Research Reference 9 (tubed… wonderfully musical and detailed… in no way Benchmark like)… my personal favorite Berkely Alpha 3 Solid state… neutral and natural without the hot top. | |
| Requesting opinions about 4 specific amplifiers I can only fairly comment on the Pass relative to the Luxman. I find the Pass amps to capture the midrange and rhythm and pace far better than Luxman. These two parameters are key to musicality, making Pass in this situation keep detail and bass b... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? I think the golden age of audio is normally thought to be the 50’s and 60’s because of the quality of the recordings. At that time the art had reached its peak before solid state and digital really compromised the recording industry. As far a pla... |