ghdprentice
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| Best Exercise To Improve Capability Of Handling Heavy Amps I am now 73 with a bad back. Moving heavy amps... not long ago I owned a 150 lb amp and moving it is simple. You use your brain. You break down what you must accomplish and then use leverage, gravity... and typically sliders and maybe a hand truck... | |
| Cartridge - sweet spot on the cost/sound curve? Just responding the the title. The sweetspot is determined mostly by your financial situation. | |
| Trojan Warning? Not happening to me. | |
| Qobuz vs Tidal Thanks for sharing. My audio dealer had told me to switch to Qobuz a number of years ago. I brushed it aside. So, about four years ago I finally went ahead and got a Qobuz trial... I cancelled my Tidal within a day or two. Then, I found how many h... | |
| Bose 901 Review Well Done. Yes they did. | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Used Sonus Faber, Totem or DynAudio (more detailed oriented than the others. The Sonus, best choice given your musical inclination, but not over ten years old. Some of the older ones were too warm and compromised detail. I have to agree with @gr... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? What is your current speakers and venue? Would be helpful to see them. It is easy to create a virtual system with a few photos... that would be really helpful. What are yours tastes in sound? | |
| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? I suspect you already had it. Don't leave on and less cycles. My understanding is that tubes become less reliable... as in more likely to blow as well as have the sound quality slowly deteriorate. This is enough for me to change at recommended in... | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones Congratulations. Great to hear you are enjoying your headphone system. Having a good headphone system can be very rewarding. I developed mine over fifty years, somewhat in parallel with my main system. Ultimately, it jumped leaps and bounds over t... | |
| Bose 901 Review Well Done. I certainly have not heard them since 1985. I had a friend that thought he was an audiophile and played them with great pride. My memory was exactly the lead line... No highs... no lows.. complete absence of dynamics... but I have a terrible memor... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. Exactly. | |
| Neotech vs Stager silver solids Typically I buy highly reviewed audio equipment. This gives some assurance of sound and build quality. Components must be of the right flavor as well as excel at performance. Interconnects are even trickier, since there is a real question of syner... | |
| Sonus Faber Upgrade worth it Dependent a bit on the room size, but probability is very high. Likely to be tighter bass and more coherent and detailed sound. What is your room size? I have owned Cremona M, Olympica, and Amati. The steps have always been significant. If you... | |
| Streamer, no DAC please? Go for Quboz. Slightly better sound quality than others and half a million high resolution albums vs a tenth of that for Tidal. | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Tradition or Serafino G2 I power my Amati with an Audio Research Ref 160 in triode mode... 70wpc... plenty of power... can blast my large room way louder than I would ever want to listen to them without compression or detriment. These are tube amps... you would not get th... |