ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| CD Alternative There is an evolution going on. It started with a CD Player and will end with streaming. We are far enough along that there are high end solutions for the each end of the spectrum and anywhere in between. Solutions exist at most price points $1,00... | |
| Variation on a theme. What are your other passions in life? Bicycle ridingLiteraturePhilosophy: Metaphysics / Epistemology Red WinePhotography | |
| Spring Theory Thanks for your post Greenbean (😊). I just received my first set of Nobosound springs… thanks for the tip MillerCarbon. They had a positive effect under my 36 pound CD player / DAC… quieter background. So, I ordered three more sets. It would never... | |
| Tiny bridges everywhere, but why? Ahh, you are in the early stages. Try this. Consider the system you have to be your reference system. So, instead of thinking of selling it all, think of it as a very long termed project to very slowly and carefully move to your ideal system. But ... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. Sounds like Steve is running out of stuff to talk about. | |
| Best Speaker Choice for my very "non-audio-friendly" Living Room Wow. You are not kidding on a challenging environment. The photos are worth a thousand words.i would try small monitors on stands on the granite shelf. Put them just high enough not to get heated by direct radiation from the fireplace. This would ... | |
| Love my new amp and pre-amp 😃😊👍Take your time. Get to completely know the sound of your system and let it fully break in. All my Audio Research gear is supposed to take 600 hours of use to break in. While most of the real obvious change was over the first 250 hours… I did no... | |
| Best Speaker Choice for my very "non-audio-friendly" Living Room Interesting question. So, if imaging isn’t important… what is the purpose of the liven room system? Listening for many? Casual. The fireplace, how wide… how far from the listening area? a couch?things I am thinking is stuff like high quality monit... | |
| A sincere Thank You to AudiogoN members for the congeniality and sharing! @jusam. +1 | |
| Subwoofer Out to Mains? +1 to Millercarbon. Do the shortest and best possible connection of primary signal to preamp, amp and speakers. Then worry about the subwoofer. | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 @mgrif104 +1. Very definitely over fifteen years I fiddled with streamers of all types: PCs, $100, $500, $1000, Auralic Aries G2, the Aurender 100n… and quickly Aurender N10, and finally Aurenders flagship WE20SE… the last initially seemed ridicul... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search With today’s audio products one can easily find CD Players that sound better than a Streamer / DAC combination, the reverse as well. It is a question of the component(s) choice and the system you are plugging them in to. My streamer sounds as good... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search @soix +1. Absolutely. Whole worlds of music… for the same price as a CD per month. A complete revelation. Now instead of bouncing around my collection, I can explore the entire world of music. | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 The ARC DAC 9 is about $12K less than the Alpha. The ARC DAC 9 does not have the SE designation but it will probably sound roughly similar to the ARC CD9se ($17K).Every time I switched another component to high quality tubed component it sounded b... | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 I had a Berkeley Alpha 3 in my system for several weeks and was able to do direct comparisons with my DAC. It is outstanding, detailed, natural, and musical. I could not imagine anyone not being happy with it. (My system shown under my ID).I was c... |