ghdprentice
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| New Set Up Yes, you get advice here, but you have to be very discriminating in what you believe.Given your question, I would start with The Absolute Sounds’ and Strereophiles Recommended Products issues. Look at stuff at or above your price range… you can al... | |
| Western Electric or Takatsuki 300Bs? I have Takatsuki 300Bs, purchased after a lot of research and at the recommendation of Woo. I love them, worlds above whatever I got stock. I just got what I thought appealed to my aesthetic and were the very best. Have not tried the others. I don... | |
| New TT or new Cart? Technics content If you want to stick with the integrated. Then add a sub… same brand and model. Two will extend the soundstage. The only trick with them is to not turn them up too much or the pinch the center soundstage. Also carefully integrating them. | |
| New cables - To judge now or after burn in period? @mitch2 You are absolutely correct… but no matter how hard I have tried over the decades I just cannot get myself to spend that much money on something that does not directly improve the performance of my system. I ended up getting a extra DAC, an... | |
| Recommended streamers/servers? @efoo I recommend looking at Aurender… I had a Auralic Aries G2 and my Aurenders are much better. Aurender makes streamers at many price points. Streamers make a huge difference! I have experience with streamers from $200 (PC, as well as separates... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please Congratulations on buying the Koetsu Redwood signature. For the last couple hours I have been listening to mine. It is really a wonderfully balanced and musical cartridge. It balanced detail with natural, musical sound. It really does an excellent... | |
| New TT or new Cart? Technics content There are lots of options, and depends on where you want to go. Is this about a lifetime path to a fantastic system. A one and done? My first thought would be Phono stage. If you are shooting for a great system. They are simply critical in getting... | |
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? @unsound. Exactly . The problem today is that it adds yet another compatibility issue in an already very difficult matching problem. One more variable can just make a misstep too easy. Assembling a high end system is too challenging for many peopl... | |
| Room rearrangement. Cable question Moving the equipment rack from between the speakers and leaving the amp there significantly improved the sound of my system. The advice from my dealer and long time audio comrade told me that to break between the preamp and amp was the one to make... | |
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? Yes, preamps are dinosaurs as they were 200 million years ago. They will go extinct, but not soon. | |
| Audio Research from VSi75 to LS28SE/VT80SE or Ref 6SE/Ref75SE? No question The Ref 6SE / Ref 75se. These are world class components. What you have is good… but these are in a whole different league. I have a ARC Ref 6SE… it is a stunning preamp.. before this I had a REF5se. The preamp is really critical in se... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please I am not sure this is of much value but, I have a Koetsu Rosewood Signature and love it. Great balance and detail. Putting $5K cartridges on turntables and dialing it in is for my dealer. The only thing I am likely to do touching it is destroy it.... | |
| How Do You Learn? Interesting conversation. Having words to describe attributes is critical. One could come up with them yourselves… but I am guessing learning would be an order of magnitude or several orders of magnitude slower. There are certain people… good at b... | |
| To pre-amp. or not to pre-amp! Yes preamp. The higher quality the better the sound. Preamps are really important and if you want great sound the more you invest the better… like all components. | |
| What percentage of the time do you listen to records vs. digital sources? The ratio has been changing over the last couple decades from 90% vinyl to now 98% digital. The last couple years I upgraded to a top level streamer as well as up graded the rest of my components to tube equipment. Now digital is just as satisfyin... |