ghdprentice
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| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? @larry5729 For most of my life I have had used cars… they are not important to me. My first loan for a $5K amp in 1979… a new car cost $7K at that time. In my early thirties I got a masters degree and joined an executive team (~75+ hours per w... | |
| Best streamers WITHOUT a DAC OP, Congratulations! It’s a great feeling isn’t it? There is always the anticipation and fear after spending all that money. But that is why there are $500 through $25K+ streamers. | |
| Systems over $100k Mine is around $150K… I started with a Marantz 1040 integrated amp in 1972. I have been learning and upgrading ever since to the system I have now. All of my components are pretty new. I have finished tweaking interconnects and power cords. I have... | |
| Chinese Cables that sound good I have worked in China for over twenty years, in the very contract manufacturing and logistics facilities that make stuff you own. Our sales are bringing millions of people out of poverty. As these companies prosper, wages go up and the standard o... | |
| Best Bang for the Buck Upgrade Given the speaker quality and you like them. Probably the DAC… it will improve the transport sound quality and set you up when you do go to streaming… today streaming can equal or exceed the SQ of a transport. Long term improving systems are typi... | |
| Revel F228be- will my amp be enough? I have worked my way up the speaker lines, for me Sonus Faber… but Focal is a great line. If you can upgrade to the Focal Sopra 2, I would do it. You will not regret it. Then consider the rest of your system. Once you have speakers in that league…... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? IPhones are built in China… it can be good or bad depending on what it is. | |
| Can it get better? @voodoochillin Interesting, the words you use. See if you are able to listen to a Audio Research VSi75. It is an integrated, but tubed. It offers warm midrange bloom, with great imaging and soundstaging. I recently had a audio buddy over tha... | |
| Question about Bi-Wiring @thyname Good observation. Lamp cord… seriously… I got out of college 50 years ago. Very true… good quality speaker cable first, and then biwiring. I used a set of Cardas Gold Reference for many years. The primary driver of the sound w... | |
| Your method for discovering great music. Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, a HiFi+ all have a review section at the end of every issue. I just search Qobuz for the ones I find interesting… I only think one was not there when I tried. | |
| Can it get better? The order with increased sound quality is integrated, single box components and finally two box components (separating the power supply from main components… or mono block amplifiers). I can attest to increasing sound quality with each step. I... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? @lonemountain Yes… and the point of using small quantities or making you own driver is to achieve a sound not possible to achieve otherwise… so the sound achieved must justify the cost or they go out of business quickly. This is where profess... | |
| Can it get better? While I own an integrated and many separates, my comments come from fifty years of pursuing high end audio and owning many pieces of Pass equipment. Your concern is well founded. Your integrated has the advantage of single design, savings in cost... | |
| Denefrips Pontus "burn in" period? Every piece of equipment is different. Audio Research I have noticed has a very definite and incrediblly reproducible pattern (I broke in three Reference 160s amps… and 2 Ref Preamps. But the real question to ask is, did your new unit sound gr... | |
| DAC with analog input ? I’m sorry what? You do not want a DAC you want a preamp. Preamp takes the analog output from the player, boosts the signal, adds volume controls and prepares the signal for your amplifier. Typically if you want high quality sound the preamp sh... |