ghdprentice
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| It comes with a balance knob?!?! I'll take it! Typically the better the equipment the less adjustments there are as each has a negative sonic impact. Balance is something nearly all high end equipment has. As @erik_squires pointed out the speakers could have on confined space on one side and o... | |
| Vote Your Ranking -If you have an opinion on this digital subject I looked at this question again and realized it is two questions, conflated. One of sound quality of different methods of reproducing a digital file. Second of the sound quality of different resolutions. So first holding the file type constant... | |
| Vote Your Ranking -If you have an opinion on this digital subject The point here is that we are talking about computer files. Are those files located on a silver disk, a bunch of disk drives, a USB thumb drive, or streamer from a central server through a service like Qobuz it is all the same… but every part has... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges 👍 A really high end cartridge is a thing of beauty. It was truly a jaw dropping moment of how good a turntable could be. I just thought surface noise and pops were something you had to endure… then they just disappeared. I now have a high-end ... | |
| MSB DAC's Popularity Typically I start from professionally reviewed and rated components: Stereophile or The Absolute sound. Particularly when you are looking at expensive equipment. These reviewers generally have heard the very best and lessor units so they can place... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges Op. On my Frog. Previous cartridges… it has been a while, early on I had a Shure V15, Audio Techniques (?) a couple in the $500 - $750 price range. The difference… like night and day. Surface noice vanished… wasn’t just a little reduced, vanished... | |
| Opinions of Onkyo P-3000R phono preamp Gold Note is a high end audio company, Onkyo is not. The Gold Note PH-10 is their entry for an affordable phono stage. They know how to make spectacular sounding equipment and you are going to hear that in this phono stage. It is well reviewed by ... | |
| Thoughts on selling and upgrading Personally I always want the best sound. So, I would buy a high quality integrated with a high quality streamer/DAC (Aurender is my choice) and speakers that fit the room. This system could easily best the sound of your old one. To me your situ... | |
| Overpowering my speakers I have usually owned amplifier of very high power. Over driving is not an issue… you are going to hear it before you do any damage. ‘However, accidentally connecting your preamp in a way to pass full volume (record out) to your amp could damag... | |
| Vote Your Ranking -If you have an opinion on this digital subject The only controversy comes from what equipment you own and your experience level. If you have the equipment: Streaming is now capable of sounding better than Red Book in any format with High Rez files and equal to high Rez files of the same re... | |
| Wilson Audio Sabrina for Large Room? There is room size, and there is the listening triangle. Both are important. If you actually have to move them 13’ apart, then there are two strikes. If you can simply build a 9” or so triangle in your space then they may work. But I think having ... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? It is like not needing a power conditioner. It can work under the right conditions… but usually the best sound is achieved with one. If you are one of the special cases where you have really compatible and synergistic equipment and do not have ana... | |
| In home speaker demo- Wilson Sabrina with older McIntosh equipment-- how long to decide? 😀👍 | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges I moved to high quality cartridges about 30 years ago… a Van den Hull Frog (MC)… about $3,500 on my VPI Aries. It completely took my system to a whole new level. I think I put a couple thousand hours on it and 20 years of use with no maintenance. ... | |
| Which NAS should I choose? I have had NAS for ten of fifteen years. My career was in IT… Director of IT for the last three decades. I wouldn’t bother. The age of local storage is nearly over. Streaming is what works now and into the future. I have 14tb of NAS now. I stream ... |