ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Help wanted spending money and improving my system. Having the itch is great… over many years or a lifetime it can bring you to own a tremendous system enabling great musical enjoyment. I learned over time to bring my system up to the point that all components were acting synergistically and at the... | |
| New Transport? / Streamer? / CD Player? Every component imposes an imprint on the sound. | |
| Ever Been Too High? Interesting one of your compares were Totem Mites. I have a pair in my office system with matching sub. I have heard larger ones as well. I really like their sound, especially when feed a nice natural signal. | |
| How is the Pass Labs X150.5 at low volume? Pass Labs amps are exceptional having owned a number of them for forty years. But I would not call the x series warm… they are not cold or analytical. I have nothing but praise for them. if fed a warm signal you will get warm output. The XA series... | |
| The extinction of human interaction takes yet another step forward... While social media and the pandemic have pushed social interaction to the background. I think there will be a strong rebound. We are social animals. I was an executive for most of my career in global companies. For instance in logistics… you have ... | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? I listen to speakers or read reviews of what they sound like and ignore all but a quick look at a couple parameters. I was a former scientist and analytical person who has spent his career doing highly analytical work. I found most the analytical ... | |
| You can go home again Yes. I think that is frequently true. For me I had a memory from rock concerts and early “good” systems I heard. It took me decades to slowly realize that the treble I was chasing was actually distorted high frequency hash (one characteristic). Ov... | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics I love the idea of a chart locating the sound characteristics of different equipment! One could start by locating house sound on different dimensions. Tonal balance, detail, warmth… great idea.The ARC Ref75SE is a very high end and much loved ampl... | |
| Setting up a streamer for a frien Look on the back of the CD player, does it have digital inputs? | |
| Vinyl Buyers: The Premium Price Vinyl v. Cheap Vinyl Ratio Most of the audiophile reissues I have purchased (usually under $50) have been good. But there have been some real bad ones… I remember getting one of my favorite albums from my youth, Who’s Next, and being completely disappointed… thick vinyl, te... | |
| Ever Been Too High? I am sure you did this, but the treble is very directional, so you can moderate the treble by toe in and tilt. I have had some speakers drop off significantly on treble with small adjustments. Second, reflective floors or walls?… reinforcing trebl... | |
| DAC That Punches Above Its Price Point Schiit Yggdrasil @ $2.5KAudio Research CD9se @ $17KBoth significantly exceed their cost at there given price points. | |
| How important is the pre-amp? I agree that the death of the preamp is inevitable. But if I had to estimate when the shift would start with significant movement it would be twenty years. That would put it where the CD player is now… a few companies stop production… the ones tha... | |
| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? @antigrunge2 .Well, I put it a bit more tactfully, but, yes, you nailed it. | |
| How important is the pre-amp? @azwineguyI certainly have never heard it. Well, I guess a $15K surround processor versus a $1.5K preamp. But no, never.Also, I am currently enjoying a glass of Chateau Haut Bages Liberal Pauillac, 2018 while listening to my all tube system. We ha... |