ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| No sound from Aurender A10 It is 11AM on Sunday morning in Korea. I have had timely and good responses from Aurender support. | |
| Aurender A10 help So if your Bluesound works, I would disconnect the Bluesound and connect the Aurender to those inputs. Your Luxman has 4 unbalanced inputs and two balanced inputs. The most likely thing is somehow connected incorrectly. What is connected to wh... | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference Your experience is very curious to me and completely different from my experiences with Aurender servers, I still own a N100 and a W20SE. They have completely out classed all PC based servers and other similar stand alone streamers. I would work w... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment @mikekollar Yeah, congratulations on the speaker upgrade, that was inevitable profound. The rest… ok, glad you are enjoying it. | |
| Streaming Spotify Streamer —> DAC —> preamp —> amp —> speakers. or Streamer/DAC —> preamp —> amp —> speakers While theoretically one could output DAC to amp. Well, let’s just say except for a very few people with incredible dedicati... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment I think two changes were most important, added a second dedicated line for my amp (as opposed to the original which now just powers the rest of my components). And a Silent Running Audio Ohio++.2 isolation platform for my Linn LP12 Turntable. Also... | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2019-high-end-audio-buyers-guide-music-servers-and-peripheral-products/3 Maybe this can be helpful. A real broad survey… with some of the good stuff at the end. | |
| Streaming Spotify Hmm. Today streaming can sound better than red book CDs and certainly FM tuners. The advantage is a nearly infinite music library and low cost ($14.99 / month). The best streaming service for high quality sound right now is Qobuz, and secondarily... | |
| Something Millercarbon has preached Be A Better Listener. Do not get mired in data. Chickens aside, learning how to listen, learning the vocabulary of sound is critical in the enjoyment of high end audio. My partner of 35 years has always had much better hearing than I… she is a girl. She always to differs to me to explain what s... | |
| Using Speaker Wire to extend Bi-Wire Cable to Speakers Well, depends on the quality of the equipment… but since you are talking mono blocks… I am thinking some level of quality. So, then definitely you want to put the mono blocks right next to the speakers and use long interconnects between the preamp... | |
| Dedicated Music Server/Player To follow @willgolf Absolutely yes! I fiddled around with PCs, MacBook.. and portable devices for years. It is only sending bits, right? No! I got an Auralic Aries G2 and realized it is like every high end audio component, every component mat... | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. I have used about every form of Apple product, PC with different software. Also, many DAC variations, Then I discovered dedicated streamers: Aries G2, Aurender N100, Aurender N10, and Aurender W20SE. The sound quality at the beginning of this lis... | |
| Phono Preamp upgrade For a phono stage I would recommend a used Audio Research PH… as high a number as you can afford. I have owned PH 2, 2se, 3se, 5 (?), 8, and now a Reference 3. There is a substantial market and you will be getting a real audiophile piece of gear… ... | |
| Do speaker wires have to be the same length for each speaker? For people working towards or that have an audiophile system they must be concerned with all aspects of a system that may have an impact. In the end every minute detail matters. But, as the OP pointed out this is not a highly resolving system. If ... | |
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? +1 on Takatsuki 300B It comes down to your values. I replaced the OEM tubes in my Woo WA5. The difference was very profound. Tubes like Sophia offer an intermediate step up. If you want the best sound your system is capable of, then the Takatsuki... |