ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| CD player I would recommend concentrating on improving your streaming (Streamer and DAC). My streaming is as good as my CD, stored files, and analog. This is possible at many price points. A CD player is a combined transport, streamer, and DAC. If you put y... | |
| Madman! Digital vs Vinyl OP: ”I ask because I‘ve got a $5k TT with a $2k cartridge on it and am trying to figure out whether it’s worth investing in a really good phono preamp or not.” This is a really important question to ask, particularly at this time. Digital is... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? @phusis Good discussion. There are many approaches to high end audio. Typically they reflect a persons personality. Often idealistic vs pragmatic. One of the reasons I take a fairly conservative approach here is there are a lot of folks that ... | |
| The panic selling of tube audio had begun. I was shocked to see someone wanting to sell their tube gear. I get buying extra tubes if only available for Russia. But tube gear is, as you say incredibly reliable. Retuning is not required often. I have a box of extra tubes I bought in days pas... | |
| Limited soundstage between speakers Typically a major factor is the toe in of the speakers and distance between them. Certainly it is speaker dependent. Assuming a good stereo recording. Are your speakers in an equilateral triable with you seat. How big is that triangle? If too big... | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? From my review of systems they are frequently located in duel function rooms, dens, living room… etc where aesthetics are of greater priority than sound. When shared the guy can buy more and more expensive stuff but not mess up the room decor, wel... | |
| Looking for a tube phono pre @dhite71 +1 I whole heartedly agree. I owned a PH8 for many years I think it was about their highest performing phono stages for the money… and used, a screaming deal. I now own a Reference 3… ok, better but at twice the cost. | |
| Does carpet deaden the sound too much? In my fifty years of pursuing the high end, no. In general, you want the two speakers to integrate the sound. Reflections from the wall and floor create slightly different arrival times confusing the sound. Anything that causes multiple arrival ti... | |
| Madman! Digital vs Vinyl Sounded like fun. I don’t have the Delux version. But I do have an audiophile 180gram pressing of Madman across the water manufactured by DCC. I have a great analog and digital ends… see my user ID. It is easy for me to synch them and volume equa... | |
| I heard a costly system from Esoteric. Certainly an interesting observation. I have always had a separate headphone system…although originally driven by my CD player. I personally would never assume the headphone output would be at the same level as the speaker output… but if I tri... | |
| SS Substitute for Tube Integrated? Glad you brought this up. I always have an xtra set of tubes for all my equipment. But my amps use KT 150… so I bought an extra quad… I am sure alternative sources will come on line at some point. Tubes tend to last a very long time. But better sa... | |
| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. OP, My Aurender W20SE steamer has been life changing. | |
| A Warning for Owners of Furman IT Refernence 20i Thank you for your report! | |
| Records, CDs, Streaming Streaming 95%, Vinyl 5%. My streamer and vinyl are very comparable (see my UserID for systems). Sometimes streaming sounds bettering than vinyl. Sometimes vinyl better than streaming. Both sound incredibly musical and enjoyable. I own 2,000 vi... | |
| Which Streamer is a Major Upgrade over PS Audio Bridge II in a DSD DAC I own an Aurender N100 and W20SE. After an Aurlic Aries G2, and lots of PC, MAC and other streamer choices will not be straying from Aurender. It is what they do… and they do it incredibly well. Read a review of the W20SE. |