ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Is it me? Will I ever be satisfied? Cool, congratulations! Only the beginning… a few more advil with speaker movements and room treatments and it will get better and better. | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? @bigtwin +1. Good man | |
| Neutral, transparent, warm I started on this… and lost what I wrote. So let me recommend The Complete Guide to high end audio by Robert Harley. He does a great job of explaining what to look for in a speaker and the trade offs and characteristics to look for. Also… a go... | |
| Digital separates or all in one music hub If you think you will be improving your sound over time, definitely get separates. That will allow you to upgrade them separately. Also, the more functions you cram into a single box the more noice and interaction among components, which degrade t... | |
| Estelon vs Sonus Fabre I have had three sets of Sonus Faber, currently Amati Traditional. If I decided to upgrade I would look up a couple levels in SF. To me they have a uniquely natural sound. I have read about Esteon and particularly given your amp, sounds like a gre... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages @thiefoflight …”But I am in the camp that believes that a component can be analytical and be incredibly musical and enjoyable.” ok, we definitely are talking about definitions.. Maybe it is just because I am an old fart, but analytical to me ... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? @gregdude Having worked in high tech manufacturing and spent years working on mainland China… Chinese Manufacturing is just that. Chinese that have put together a business, hired Chinese workers to produce and sell a product. They are like us... | |
| Best Phono Preamp Under $5k I think a used Audio Research PH8. I used to own one. The most cost effective phono stage I have ever owned. While I have heard a lot about, for instance the Presto… I have also heard about them failing and getting repaired. Audio Research product... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? @andy2 I appreciate your comment, but honestly no. I would recommend with a economics class, follow with a couple finance classes… graduate level. Then a few years of following details of inflation, GDP, PMI, Fed moves… in this setting it end... | |
| Pass Labs INT-25 or equivalent in another brand @audphile1 Good advice. But I have a real hard time not drawing conclusions from listening to a new piece of equipment… and can be disappointed… I know I shouldn’t draw conclusions… but I do. So, it can be safer to wait… but you have to put a... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages OP…”I think my listening preferences have changed to be a bit more analytical, so the Ref 3 phono does interest me.” Ok, the REF 3 should not interest you. From what you are saying you really are moving in the opposite direction. If you look fro... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? The Fed is unwinding it… Powell is really smart guy and knows what he is doing… and of course is completely independent of the president. I follow this stuff and have a Masters in Finance… having said that I don’t want to discuss it. It is not nea... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? In general, I think high end audio has remained pretty cost level. In 1980 I bought a state of the art amp, a Threshold s500. I had to take out a loan. In todays dollars that is about $18,800. I recently bought a ARC 160s amp for $22K. The perform... | |
| Do larger planar speakers produce more accurate sound? If not married to planar, maybe you should consider Magico. | |
| Audiophile Goal Perfect Center Image Push the mono button on your preamp. How is the central image now? |