ghdprentice
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| Best amp for Sonus Faber Cremona I bought a set of Cremona about ten years ago as an experiment to determine if the sound I had thought I heard in a showroom was what Sonus Faber sounded like. It was. They lasted two weeks when I ordered a pair of Olympica 3. Not say ing anything... | |
| China built tube amps I have owned a Chinese integrated amp for over ten years. It was a good deal for the money. If you want a budget amp, it can be a great choice. Very nice stuff. I have an early Primaluna. Screaming deal for $2K. If you are looking for state of th... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones Yes a great headphone system is very enjoyable. Overall you can achieve a similar level of detail and overall sound quality for 1/10th the cost (see my two systems, click on my ID). However, ultimately a room system can do stuff that headphones ca... | |
| DAC Question: Delta-Sigma vs R2R @big_greg +1 | |
| VPI Aries 3 Questions - Looking to make a switch @sbank Yes, Spencer you are correct. I did not state that correctly. Both turntables innately have sonic advantages. I wanted the advantages of both.Your personal value on different positive attributes could easily make the equation highly v... | |
| Want to make sure I have the correct settings for my phono pre-amp OP. Sounds like by accident you chose a difficult route into vinyl. Typically, provided you get a pre-mounted and aligned cartridge or the Tuntable from a dealer. Then you just plug stuff in and might try changing the loading on the fly… it ma... | |
| Would my system benefit from cable upgrades? @rodman99999 +1 | |
| VPI Aries 3 Questions - Looking to make a switch OP, Nice system. I have similar equipment and owned an Aries for twenty years. Fantastic sounding turntable. Personally from your post I would keep it. I moved from the unsprung Aries to a sprung Linn LP12. I believe (not adamantly) that ther... | |
| some rookie questions I typically listen in the low 70db range. High 70’s sometimes. Most of the folks I know will only occasionally listen in the 80’s. But I think the better the sound quality the lower the volume… that has been my experience. Virtually all speake... | |
| New wireless bridge and ethernet cable. I’ll try to be helpful… but i find hard to follow your post. First, I have a high end system. I am using a wall wart extenders to bring a connection to my streamers… which I plug my Ethernet cable… see my systems under my user ID. No noise whatso... | |
| Is an audio media transport really better than PC? Audio streamers can sound better than PCs. At some level they become better, without question. If inexpensive it can be iffy as to which will sound better. Also it depends on your associated equipment. If it is low quality budget stuff, difference... | |
| Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like? @coltrane1 You are correct. You are never going to hear an unamplified rock concert. ‘’Although I listen to all kinds of music, I found it was classical concerts and acoustic jazz was what you needed to listen to to in order to zero in your ... | |
| Beautiful listening rooms Pretty lady. For most of my life sound quality was all that mattered… since I could only afford a fraction of the cost of a state of the art system which I wanted. So, ugly OK. So, as I got close to retirement and could actually afford great s... | |
| It's Great Having So Many Choices (?) It depends on your personality. I love large amorphous unstructured problems. So, high end audio has always appealed to me… and career wise I was a CIO… so I would come into a global company with their information systems in disarray and I would f... | |
| Best streamers WITHOUT a DAC Aurender. After years of iPods, iPads, Macs and PCs I finally bought an Auralic Aries G2, then an Aurrender N100, listened to a N10, and bought their flagship W20SE. Aurender understands how to build streamers. So does Linn. I recommend one of th... |