ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... OP, šš | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. My wifi connected streamer sounds as good as my high end analog rig. | |
| Nagra Classic DAC 3rd Party Power supply I used to own a Sim Moon 650d DAC ~$8Kā¦ they offered a separate power supply for $8K. With some reticent I bought it. It was well worth it. The noise floor dropped dramatically, which allowed the details to increase and bass was enhanced.Ā Ā Pers... | |
| Keep Vintage or sell for new Omg yes. I bought a brand new Threshold s500 when released in ~80. Then a T2 preamp ā¦ then a Pass x350 ten or twenty years later. I canāt begin to tell you how much better contemporary stuff sounds!Ā Ā Every ten years the sound was significantly... | |
| Pass INT-25 better than Wilsenton R8? Yes, make sure you have at least two or three hundred hours on it before deciding. Ā Also, yes, tube and solid state will have different character. Over the last 50 years I have slowly moved to all tube equipment. If you are not thrilled by the ... | |
| Art Pepper fans out there? Yes. Thank you. š Ā Five albumsā¦ greatā¦ listening now. | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. I get fantastic sound through my streamer using a wifi extender plugged in next to my streamer. My streamer was not much harder than setting up a preampā¦ but it is a really good streamer. So it excels at isolation, not passing on noiseā¦ making up ... | |
| recommended speaker cables and interconnects @tom2015Ā š. Yes they have, I donāt know why they donāt come up? Maybe they arenāt into marketing.Ā | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers There are quite a few. But Sonus Faber for me. My third pair, Amati Traditional are pretty perfectā¦ color, form, wood, and finish.Ā | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? My experience over the last forty years of owning top level ampsā¦ although in the past mostly solid state (but my preamps and phono stages have been tubed) is that, ten years is a significant improvement in performanceā¦ and twenty is in a complete... | |
| Transparrent Ref XL vs Opus Iād ask the question of the Audio Afficianado forum. Your system is of the caliber of most folks there. There is likely to be a number of folks that have both and made the transition. | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes @vishu Ā Really heart breaking story. That is a huge investmentā¦ in what should be a trouble free set of amps. Sorry to hear it. Road trip? I worked for a Japanese company for a long time. Our office was in Vancouver Washington. Sometimes som... | |
| Audio Research REF 80S Reviews/Comparisons @fsonicsmith Ā Thanks for your comments. You are in for a treat. If I havenāt mentioned this, you can expect mediocre performance for for about 100 hoursā¦ pretty good til around 120ā¦ then flipping back and forth between good and badā¦ then after... | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? My partner and I used to have over 1,000 DVDs and BluRays. She was in charge of filing themā¦ she had them broken down into a dozen categories then alphabetical across six big wall storage units. I could never find a thing. She would say, āIt is in... | |
| āHouseā Character of Popular $20-$30k Speakers OP, Ā After decades of making audio choices I found that the best thing to do after a few minutes of critical listening. Just listen to the musicā¦ let it soak into your subconscious. Does it move you? Drop the jumping from one sound to another t... |