ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Quboz/Aurender Issue Aurender released a firmware update last night that fixed the Qobuz problem. | |
| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? For your reading I would skip company web sites all together and concentrate on The Absolute Sound and Stereophile reviews. There are a couple more... but you need as objective information as possible. | |
| Who Tried Power Conditioners Over The Years and No Longer Use Them Today, Any Why? @coltrane1 You are the lucky one out of a hundred or thousand. Sure wish that were true for the three places I have lived in the last 40 years. | |
| Recommendations for speakers with Luxman 509x Sounds like you have assembled a great system. All the components are top notch. | |
| Sonus Faber surprise @emilop Wow, that is interesting. Sounds like something I would do. cool looking amp. Congradulation, enjoy the speakers! | |
| Preamp recommendations for my system please @yyzsantabarbara +1 Occasionally in the corporate world some employee that skirted on the edge of getting fired would finally reach his melting point, write an email copied to all employees condemning the incompetence of everyone around a... | |
| "Marriage w/ Pass Labs x250.8 While I haven't heard the speaks recently, the Pass x series are excellent amplifiers. I owned a X350 for over a decade. Will mate with preamp well. Hard to see this as anything other than a great match. I am also familiar with your streamer and D... | |
| What is the best USB cable under $500 for a natural presentation and good detail ? @melm +1 System dependent. I recently tried a Nordost Valhalla 2 AES (~$5K)and it actually sounded horrible... not at all what I was expecting. Also tested a Nordost Odin ($17K) analog interconnect... sounded great. I tested about half ... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps Typically there used (30 years ago and earlier) to be fairly large differences between the two camps. But they step by step converged closer to real music and to reflect more the designers intent as opposed to detailed but harsh versus warm and la... | |
| Quboz/Aurender Issue I have two Aurender streamers. I have not had to fiddle with them at all and they have performed flawlessly with the exception of this current Qobuz issue that effects only one of my streamers. I sent them an email about it Friday night and re... | |
| Upgrading my system Sounds like you have some fun changes in front of you. When you put a system together each component and interconnects make a big difference in the sound you get. Changing more than one thing and/or not entirely sure of what you want can make the ... | |
| Preamp recommendations for my system please Well, as an owner of an ARC REF 6SE, no question that would be my recommendation. It's the cost is a bit too high just buy a Ref 6... or Ref 5SE. I owned a REF 5SE for many years... the 6SE sounds better... but I would prefer that to anything else... | |
| Sonus Faber surprise Congratulations on the find. Older Sonus are frequently characterized as warm. I have had three sets of Sonus beginning with Cremona. If fed a neutral signal they will sound very natural and organic. I don’t know what Gallo sound like. If in f... | |
| The volume of my speakers going down by itself and going back again in a minute or two I'm thinking the possession thing. Both channels are experiencing the volume change? While I have never heard of such a thing... if it is in one channel, I would suspect a tube. ARC is really well made... so the most likely culperate is a tube... | |
| Quboz/Aurender Issue Same is happening to me. Aurender support promptly explained they are working on it and will have a fix shortly. Happily I did store a couple thousands on it’s internal storage. I haven’t had a reason to use them before this... or God forbid, I wo... |