ghdprentice
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| Interesting comment on Bose Speakers..... I have been so ashamed of Bose. I have been an audiophile for fifty years. I really appreciate a great sounding system. I can’t tell you how many times I mentioned this to someone and they exclaimed, “Me too! I own Bose!.” It is humiliating that a... | |
| Flagship product to build around OP, I think it is appropriate you are reticent at committing to vinyl. I have have had it for fifty years… if I was committing to a great system now I wouldn’t bother. If I loved the idea fiddling with physical stuff and the tradition, then I ... | |
| Will DAC always sound better going straight into a Power Amplifier? @ozzy62 Well, put! A good quality preamp can’t hold a candle to an equivalent good quality preamp of today. | |
| Schiit Freya + Class A in Stereophile @mrmojo I don’t understand your point. I have a couple of true audiophile systems (see my UserID), I also own three Schiit components and have extensively auditioned another (Yggdrasil, Gungnir… head amp and amp). Never read their stated ... | |
| Will DAC always sound better going straight into a Power Amplifier? @fai_v If you buy a 30 year old preamp. Make sure you have it professionally reconditioned. Components like capacitors will need to be replaced, pots cleaned… of it isn’t likely to sound very good. | |
| Improvement in Musicality for home theater system @arro222 Typically, one’s foot is a good measure of the musical connection. This is an effect that I noticed in myself and have observed and discussed with many others over many years. Not everyone will necessary be moved the same way. Certai... | |
| new headphones recommendation? grado gs3000e or… I have found the Beyerdynamic T class headphones are really musical… which would be in line with your liking. They are a bit hard to drive but very intoxicatingly musical. I own top of the line Focal, Sennheiser, Ultrasond, Denton, and Audez L... | |
| Will DAC always sound better going straight into a Power Amplifier? Typically not. The sound can often sound at first blush, but it looses heft and musicality. While there are folks that have components that work to skip the preamp. That is not the most common experience by a very large margin. Most folks go back... | |
| Improvement in Musicality for home theater system @arro222 Primarily it is rhythm and pace. The attribute that connects you emotionally to the music… typically it makes your foot tap… or get emotionally consumed by the music. it is really easy to get side tracked into hearing more detail... | |
| Looking For New CD-SACD Player For 10K you could get a Aurender streamer (N10 or N20) that would perform at the same level and would have access to nearly infinite music. Rip you SA-CDs and add to storage if you really are attached to them. | |
| Schiit Freya + Class A in Stereophile @invalid +1 | |
| Recommendations to upgrade my amp to pair with my Sonus Faber Sonetto IIIs Audio Research is part of the well known synergistic combo of Sonus Faber, Audio Reseach, and Transparent cables and interconnects. I independently discovered this combo over a period of fifty years. Once, I had all SF and ARC gear with Transparen... | |
| Is Tidal messing up for you? Would you Choose Amazon over it? Qobuz. | |
| Looking for warm tube preamp (should pair well with Pass power amp), budget $6000 ARC has been working from the tube side getting more and more accurate for many decades. Their tube amps are very neutral and natural not remotely syrupy. Your description of what you wanted described it perfectly. Also, ARC gear is very synergist... | |
| Looking for warm tube preamp (should pair well with Pass power amp), budget $6000 I owned a Audio Research 5SE for many years, with a Pass amp. The best thing I did was to get rid of the Pass amp and replace it with an ARC amp. Honestly, most likely you are thinking of replacing the wrong component. Replace your amp with a used... |