ghdprentice
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| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Anyone here practice meditation like mindfulness. If you nearly empty your mind and experience music... well, that is the opposite of critical listening. That is experiencing music. So, with that as a baseline, critical listening can be concentr... | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? It is system and person dependent (highly age dependent). The better my system the lower the required volume has been to sound great, after I got past my 20’s. so now 65 - 75 db. | |
| New vs uses in your current setup 100% new. In earlier days I purchased used. I know exactly what I want and would like it to be in the most up to date form as I keep things for at least a decade now. | |
| Nordost Valhalla 2 Speaker Cable The unfortunate part of listening to burn in as... at least when I was working it could take nearly a year to burn in at the rate of 45 minutes per day. I just got myself a modest system that I hook up and leave on for a couple weeks to burn ... | |
| Best products and process to polish piano black KEF speakers You are going to want to create a virtual system. Click on you user name a couple times Dashboard and Virtual Systems. I can never find it directly... I always have to fool around with my user name and Dashboard before you get a long list includin... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? The amp is the only thing you want plugged into the wall without power conditioning. The rest of the equipment should be on power conditioning. | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 OP, Thank you for all of your additional information, But with that, I am still of the opinion that there is something wrong with your electronics. The volume of any of my systems in the last fifty years at 60 - 80% would have been deafening. I m... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life @gkelly +1 I am not new to this pursuit, over fifty year. But I learned early on that carefully investing more would always result in exceeded expectations. While my tastes have evolved, intense research, knowing what sound quality you want, th... | |
| Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables I did a comparison in the 1990’s and included a Home Depot 12 gauge power cord (with ends cut off, cut to length), cheap Radio Shack speaker wire and a set of Transparent and Cardas Speaker cables. The Home Depot sounded great... it was better tha... | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 @ozzy +1 The Watt Puppy 8 does have a notably harsh... unnatural top end. It’s doesnt’ ruin the experience... otherwise it is very good sounding. I have a friend with a pair. Even with very natural sounding tube electronics this is obvious to an... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? That’s a lot of stuff. The best would be to connect the minimum for a 2 channel stereo in one location and to a direct line. A power conditioned for the streamer through turntable through preamp… and amp in the other socket. I’m trying to be reali... | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 I think we should drill down on ehe blown speaker issue. How loud do you listen? I am familiar with Sonus Faber and Wilson speakers, I have heard them at ear splitting sound levels powered with smaller amps. I think the problem lies somewhere othe... | |
| What is your audio axiom? Patience, listen, research, learn. This is a long term pursuit that can be incredibly rewarding. However you have to be comfortable with ambiguity and learn to listen and hear. Each turn can be rewarding. Early days are the hardest until you get t... | |
| how long with a PSaudio Preamp last No reason to expect less than twenty or thirty years. To keep top performance, it would be good to have them serviced after 20. | |
| MBL Insolvent Of course the house sound of equipment varies greatly... so while it might be of the right quality and one does not like the house sound. Also, there are differences in how well designs are executed among companies. But I would say the lie betwee... |