ghdprentice
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| What is the latest greatest word in isolation footers for amps? stands? It might be Silent Running Audio isolation platforms. I just got one for my turntable. I think for speakers it is Townsend platforms. It is next on my list. | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? I have lent money in excess of $1,000 about four times… I have NEVER gotten a penny back. Never lend a significant amount of money to a friend. Ever, unless you consider it a gift.Dispose of records as you see fit. I am sure the eleven years of st... | |
| Have you moved away from full range to standmount speakers + subs? While I have heard small monitors in confined spaces sound good. My experience is that the best sound is achieved by good quality towers. The tower speakers have been designed for coherence top to bottom. Ample amplification makes for fully fleshe... | |
| Switch. Linksys lg108 vs netgear gs308? I have used Linksys since the 90’s. I recommend them. I switched to Netgear a couple years ago… it’s OK… I wish I had not switched. There component integration was not quite as good. Not talking about much money… id’ go Linksys. FYI my career was ... | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) @edcyn. Holy cow. I have never heard of so many problems with solid state electronic gear. I probably have owned 200 - 300 new (I’m throwing in iPads, iPhones, PCs, as well as audio equipment) electronic devices over the last 30 years and couldn’t... | |
| Why so much love for Mcintosh? @mrklasThat is what it is all about finding what really about for many of us, the music. | |
| How do you listen? Right now I am listening to jazz.. about 75db.My symphony seats are 8th row center (on aisle on left). The crescendos are too loud. But when there is a soloist the violin sound hole or piano sounding board is pointed at me. This makes the solos am... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 30i or Sonus Faber Olympica II 😊👍 | |
| For SACD fans only As Fuzztone brought up. Perhaps it is useful to remember CDs and SACDs are disks with computer files on them. Those files can be relocated to a hard drive, network drive, or they are available on internet servers through streaming services. The re... | |
| CD Alternative Not listening to a full album at a time was a problem I used to have until I upgraded my streamer to raise the sound quality to CD (I have a very good CD player); nearly vinyl quality. Now exactly the opposite happens, I’ll start listening to some... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 30i or Sonus Faber Olympica II I have been reading The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, listening to high end systems, and upgrading my systems for decades. my theory was swapping SF for my ribbon speakers would change paths to higher overall musical fidelity. I verified my theory ... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. Worst hair… not sure cut is involved. | |
| Dynaudio Contour 30i or Sonus Faber Olympica II I bought Sonus Gaber Olympica 3 without heating them… I did. Lot of research and had purchased a set of Cremona as a test to verify my belief that SF was the right was to go. It was. I now own a pair of Sonus Faber Amati Traditional.I was a planar... | |
| DAC connection: which type gives highest fidelity? It depends. Generally optical is not good, skip that one. But USB versus SP/DIF or AES depends on the DAC since USB requires the DAC to retime the signal the others do not. So, it depends on the quality of the DAC versus the source. Generally, AES... | |
| System and speakers in a large room vs in a small room? Yes, I believe mating speakers of the appropriate size is important. My audio guy of over twenty years is adamant about it. He has been setting up high end systems all that time and has seen how under performing too small or too large are. He has ... |