ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| A different world Thank you guys. I really appreciate you chiming in. I have spent my career evaluating and introducing new technology to corporations. There is so much hype and confusion to obscure the truly great leaps forward. While not in the corporate environm... | |
| Soundstage depth how to improve? Shootout You obviously need good quality equipment… speakers and electronics. Then you need ample room behind the speakers, appropriate rear wall (behind speakers) dampening… which is speaker dependent, and careful appropriate toe in. My speakers are k... | |
| A different world @Russ69 I have an Audio Research Reference CD9se CD player (my two main systems shown under UserID). I haven’t tried any of my SACDs for comparison. I have an inexpensive transport but, I gave up on the format, tried stored hires files… which I ... | |
| A different world I listen to streaming about three hours a day, and also spin a vinyl album once a day. Sometimes just for fun I’ll spin a CD (and compare to streaming). All of these formats sound outstanding to me, and typically when something sounds notably bett... | |
| Orientation... Gable roof.... best set up for acoustics on long or short wall? Nice place. I would start with listening direction on axis with the crest of the roof. I would not think having the reflections on the ceiling behind you a good thing acoustically. Hopefully it also allows you to pull the speakers out further from... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones I love my Bose Quiet Comfort for airplanes and noisy environments. Definitely not accurate or in any way audiophile, but sound great… as in punchy and enjoyable in noisy environments. Using “audiophile headphones in noisy environments does not wor... | |
| China built tube amps @chorus A friend of mine has hear the Audio Research I-50. He says it sound fantastic, much like the ARC VSI 75… only cheaper. I love the sound of the VSI 75, if I needed an integrated in this price range, I would be buying one. $5K. | |
| A different world @dadork Yes, very true. High end streaming is like all other aspects of high end audio, getting outstanding sound requires all components to be of the highest quality and all the little stuff matters. It takes little wrong to collapse the mag... | |
| A different world @dweller . It took a long time. But incredibly worth it. Like the gap between the promise of Windows and the reality, like 25+ years. I was in IT. My job was to separate the marketing hype from reality… it is so great when at long last it beco... | |
| Best amp for Sonus Faber Cremona I bought a set of Cremona about ten years ago as an experiment to determine if the sound I had thought I heard in a showroom was what Sonus Faber sounded like. It was. They lasted two weeks when I ordered a pair of Olympica 3. Not say ing anything... | |
| China built tube amps I have owned a Chinese integrated amp for over ten years. It was a good deal for the money. If you want a budget amp, it can be a great choice. Very nice stuff. I have an early Primaluna. Screaming deal for $2K. If you are looking for state of th... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones Yes a great headphone system is very enjoyable. Overall you can achieve a similar level of detail and overall sound quality for 1/10th the cost (see my two systems, click on my ID). However, ultimately a room system can do stuff that headphones ca... | |
| DAC Question: Delta-Sigma vs R2R @big_greg +1 | |
| VPI Aries 3 Questions - Looking to make a switch @sbank Yes, Spencer you are correct. I did not state that correctly. Both turntables innately have sonic advantages. I wanted the advantages of both.Your personal value on different positive attributes could easily make the equation highly v... | |
| Want to make sure I have the correct settings for my phono pre-amp OP. Sounds like by accident you chose a difficult route into vinyl. Typically, provided you get a pre-mounted and aligned cartridge or the Tuntable from a dealer. Then you just plug stuff in and might try changing the loading on the fly… it ma... |