ghdprentice
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| Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ? I suspect you already had it. Don't leave on and less cycles. My understanding is that tubes become less reliable... as in more likely to blow as well as have the sound quality slowly deteriorate. This is enough for me to change at recommended in... | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones Congratulations. Great to hear you are enjoying your headphone system. Having a good headphone system can be very rewarding. I developed mine over fifty years, somewhat in parallel with my main system. Ultimately, it jumped leaps and bounds over t... | |
| Bose 901 Review Well Done. I certainly have not heard them since 1985. I had a friend that thought he was an audiophile and played them with great pride. My memory was exactly the lead line... No highs... no lows.. complete absence of dynamics... but I have a terrible memor... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. Exactly. | |
| Neotech vs Stager silver solids Typically I buy highly reviewed audio equipment. This gives some assurance of sound and build quality. Components must be of the right flavor as well as excel at performance. Interconnects are even trickier, since there is a real question of syner... | |
| Sonus Faber Upgrade worth it Dependent a bit on the room size, but probability is very high. Likely to be tighter bass and more coherent and detailed sound. What is your room size? I have owned Cremona M, Olympica, and Amati. The steps have always been significant. If you... | |
| Streamer, no DAC please? Go for Quboz. Slightly better sound quality than others and half a million high resolution albums vs a tenth of that for Tidal. | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Tradition or Serafino G2 I power my Amati with an Audio Research Ref 160 in triode mode... 70wpc... plenty of power... can blast my large room way louder than I would ever want to listen to them without compression or detriment. These are tube amps... you would not get th... | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? @thecarpathian +1 | |
| My Gray Experience Sorry to hear of your experience. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Why are DAC's so much more expensive than transports? DAC's are the component that determines the sound character. So, the amount of effort components to carefully craft the sound vs just spin a disk and stream the bits is simpler. | |
| Thoughts on using a smart plug on intergrated amp. Is your system a high end audio system or a good sounding audio system. If the later... using a switched plug is probably OK. But I feel very comfortable in going out on a limb and saying it is definitely going to compromise the sound quality of a... | |
| Streamer, no DAC please? Most high end streamers do not have a DAC. I highly recommend Aurender. For budget... N200 or used N100... or N20. The more you invest the better they sound... up to the very highest level. One of the considerations is the app used to control them... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? Absolutely. The best cartridges I have heard are the over $10K and the sound quality jumped a lot. One being the Esturo Gold and top of the line Grado... are the ones I remember. I’m probably going to buy an Esturo when I am able. | |
| Cork room treatments Great idea. Sure looks like it would be effective, unfortunately I have no experience. |