ghdprentice
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| Looking for thoughts on Sonus Faber speakers I think the KEF / SF comparison is important. A bit of forward treble comes off as more detailed... but it has a cost on realism. Real music (acoustic) has all the detail as presented by SF, but not the bit of extra forwardness. It is the naturaln... | |
| Coiling XLRs.... yes or no? Thanks. Good to hear the results of your experiment. | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation The rule of thumb is 10 - 15% of total budget. But depends on your components. One thing I learned early on, with modest components, be careful of too transparent interconnects. My system didn't sound better with truly neutral interconnects until ... | |
| Upgrading from the Schiit Freya+ I think you can be sure upgrading can net you significant gains. I owned a Sonic Frontiers CD for many years and tried out one of their preamps. While very warm I found lacking in detail. I would highly recommend looking for a used Audio Research ... | |
| To DAC or not to DAC ? Cool. Good choice. Take your time, you will be rewarded. | |
| New speaker cables recommendations sought 👍 | |
| Tube Line Stage around $5k Congratulations. Zesty gets good reviews. One of my friends has a Zesto Phono-stage. | |
| How to Improve Gain for RCA on Preamp. Can it be done? I remember getting my first "highly rated" phono-stage at that price point long ago. It was truly terrible. Unfortunately phono-stages are not good at that price point. Typically they are only ok at ten times that. I would save up and then buy use... | |
| Best light weight full range speaker recommendation. In general, I have found the better the speakers the more they weigh. If you are buying speakers in that category, I would expect the dealer to come over and set them up, and tune them. If you need to move them... yes furniture sliders make ea... | |
| Bose speaker Bose has always been a marketing company claiming they sold high-end speakers but they sounding completely low end. They have given the high end a really bad name. Good luck selling them. | |
| Tube Line Stage around $5k @oddiofyl "I need a "destination " preamp ... " I've had three of those now since I was your age. | |
| blue light arround glass tube its risk? Huh? There is some blue light coming from a tube where there was none before? Turn it off and replace tube, before it takes out the channel. | |
| Sonus faber center speaker as front? I would skip also. Too much money to bet. Speakers are too personal to bet on a bazar application with no recourse. | |
| Conrad Johnson Premier 8 / Triode TRX2 Definitely bring them to your house. Auditioning will like end any reluctance on your part. I would love to have owned the amps and preamp. Audition them at the same time.I bet you buy them. | |
| Any thoughts on the Woo WA11? 😊👍... I'm pretty sure that anyone using those horrible Koss headphones had the same reaction. I thought you would get that! |