ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Where are the young audiophiles? @kren0006. “... but for the older gents here, at the Hi-Fi height, let’s say 1970’s, what percentage of middle class households had what we would consider a hi-end system?10%? 20%? More?...”Excellent question. In the 1970’s. Much less than 1%Th... | |
| Keeping backup equipment? Let’s see how many amps have I had go out... in fifty years... actually more like 60 years... 0 failures. | |
| Help connecting a source directly to an amp You can get an analog output from a phone through apple connectors... I assume an old phone so simple, the 1/8” inch socket on the bottom. The connectors on the amp must be RCA... unless it is something really out in left field. You can get 1/8” o... | |
| Why dont more standalone DACs come with ethernet??? @treebeard1. “However, many DACs take ethernet direct and there is no need for USB...” .Then that is technically a DAC with a streamer. A pure DAC will not have that function. .There is the streamer function, the DAC function, the preamp function,... | |
| Speaker cables under 1k used I agree, Nordost can be tricky. Their high end interconnects on high end system are truly amazing, but less exotic systems they can reveal system weaknesses... sound bright and thin. | |
| Why dont more standalone DACs come with ethernet??? The internet transports packeted data. Digital words made up of digits that have address information and sequence numbers so they can be transmitted through the internet and reassembled at the user site. They need to be received and translated. Th... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? It is true the pandemic has catapulted the business. My audio guy has been in business for over twenty years and has never seen this level of demand. So, this will probably have created a bunch of new enthusiasts. And music never goes out of fashi... | |
| Best Digital Interface @mahler123. “I thought the issue was that usb delivers info in packets, and that t.....”.I think you are thinking of ethernet. Network connections are packetized. On the other side of the music server comes either USB or traditional digital stream... | |
| Keeping backup equipment? I think I usually tried to keep a small number of backup components which could work their way into an office system... a break in system. It’s a question of balance. But using for trade in is a great way of giving your dealer a way of discounting... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @jundaku. “The biggest issue is that it’s a rich mans hobby and not to many of us young people can afford it.....”I can assure you that when I was young in college and the years afterwards... it was a rich man’s hobby. I saw old guys go in and buy... | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F I have actively pursued high end audio for fifty years. Each decade has been market by a sizable improvement in sound. At first it was basic design using available components, then carefully chosen components, then advances in materials, then desi... | |
| Why dont more standalone DACs come with ethernet??? Well a stand alone DAC with an Ethernet connection is called a music streamer with a DAC.The streamer converts packetized internet signal to digital bit stream. This process if done correctly requires a high level of sophistication and a box.... i... | |
| Pure analog system with high power ARC has been making preamps for 50 years. I bought my first as a pretty old used one so it fit in my budget. It sounded magnificent. Then I upgraded over the decades. Used mainstream audiophile stuff always sounds good and is a great way to go. | |
| Is carpet on wall behind speakers counter productive? Probably not. See my system. A deflector behind the speakers is a very common acoustical treatment. It improved my system sound quite a bit. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? In a way high-end audio to seniors is what shortwave radio was to our parents. For the technical minded and interesting it was a passion. So to some extent I would expect the high-end audio becomes a much smaller segment of people. Kids grew up in... |