ghdprentice
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| Need help choosing a new DAC I recommend a Schiit Yggdrasil. I helped a friend research a DAC, in the process I bought a Gungnir multibit as an experiment (for my computer system), and we got him a Yggdrasil. The natural and detailed sound compares with DACs of much higher co... | |
| When to Amp it Up? @ja_kub_sz Thank you. Took me quite a few decades to get here… house, room, and system. | |
| Majority Of Your Listening Is Online Streaming Service, Do You Buy CD's Or Vinyl Any More? @mitch4t My Audio Research Ref CD9se is also the best DAC I have ever heard, so it gets used in that capacity for streaming. Also, I find Qobuz has 99% of my albums… and many hundreds of thousands more (well, seventy million tunes). So, if I... | |
| pre-amp processor It depends on what you want. If you are looking for good sound quality buy a preamp (2 channel audio preamp). If a surround processor is required ,and you want equivalent sound quality, then you need to spend a lot more money. | |
| Majority Of Your Listening Is Online Streaming Service, Do You Buy CD's Or Vinyl Any More? Definitely streaming… the age of CDs is over. I have 2,000 vinyl albums and 2,000 CDs. I don’t listen to CDs any more because the streaming service is the same SQ or better. (See my system, click on my user ID) Vinyl can be better… and is fun, som... | |
| Audio research and krell Well, that is one of the craziest things I have heard, not with tubes. I understand the Krell thing… many years ago. A friend of mine has an old Krell. There are lots of other really good options given your system. Your speakers are pretty ineffic... | |
| CD Transport or media server/streamer Also, whether better via USB or AES / Other digital input is dependent on the DAC / streamer combo. | |
| When to Amp it Up? @ja_kub_sz Yes. Sonus Faber Amati Traditional. Photos of my system under my ID. | |
| When to Amp it Up? I was driven to very high current / power amps for my love of electrostatic / planar speakers. Hence Pass designed amps. When I finally moved to traditional speakers I felt the possibilities opened up. Higher quality solid state amps generally in... | |
| CD Transport or media server/streamer Yes, your CD player has a compliment of digital inputs on the back, so you can use it as a DAC. You could attach a streamer and a transport. I recommend not using the optical, they tend not to be as good. Transports within CD players tend to be u... | |
| Are tubes psychological? Kind of like having a fire in the fireplace. | |
| Advice on new headphone system please Merry Christmas Paul. I am not sure I remember all your requirements. I don’t think your choice of The Rouge is wrong or bad in any way. But given some of your requirements you might look at the Woo WA22. Woo amps have a real natural, organic and ... | |
| Vacuum Tube testing service in NYC Metro area What is the reason for you want a service? You can buy a tube tester… although, I found it simple to trouble shoot by swapping tubes. I buy balanced sets for my equipment… but what is your goal… expectations. | |
| Santa didnt bring me a $20k linestage It’s probably tied up in a congested port… hopefully it will come in a couple weeks. | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? Typically there is a hierarchy of speakers, preamp, source, amp, cables, interconnects, power cords… but in any system they can get scrambled up depending on all sorts of things (components, room acoustics). But while there may be a hierarchy, the... |