ghdprentice
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| What is a cost effective way to level match, for comparing different hifi components? Cost effective is just using your ears.I think it is a question of what you enjoy doing. If you get enjoyment out of doing analytical things, and solving problems of how to measure and achieve perfect balance… that is great. I can think of a bunch... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery I find a little logic and a very few minutes of swapping tubes sufficient to identify tube issues. For instance I had a channel a bit weak not that long ago (new equipment). I reseated the tubes and it went away… 15 seconds of work. Also, I notice... | |
| HELP- Auralic Aries keeps scanning/skipping from song to song after 30 seconds There are probably settings for the amount of buffering. I had a G2, I would imagine your unit would also have them. Just a guess. | |
| Returning to Vinyl Just as an aside. Streaming these days can be outstanding. It can be completely hassle free and truly audiophile quality. High end streamers produce outstanding bit streams with very reliable easy to use apps to manage them. But as in all things a... | |
| Who will soon be going to a live concert? I have season tickets to the Oregon Symphony. I hope to be getting my booster shot later this month. Provided I do and a couple weeks pass, I will go. I expect a lot of empty seats around me. Virtually all the folks holding tickets front and cente... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery Swap the tubes and find out. I have all tube components. Whenever something odd like that happens it is a tube and swapping will quickly identify it as tubes are split along channels. I also always have an extra set of tubes around as backup. They... | |
| Returning to Vinyl Given some investments you are in for a real treat. Unless you treated your disks really badly (as in scratched) they are capable of tremendous sound. Also turntables and associated equipment has gotten orders of magnitude better at all price poin... | |
| Cable recommendations for my new (preowned) system... When I had a modest system I bought some real high end cables. They sounded terrible… passed along all of the signal. Twenty years later I pulled them out and tried them out on my vastly superior system. They sounded fantastic! Be careful not to g... | |
| Two new Schiit Yggdrasil's released yesterday! Well, I guess sometimes less is more.You know, it really doesn’t surprise me. Schiit thinks outside of the box. I worked at Burr-Brown (think DACs in high end CD players) and worked with design engineers. Schiit probably had two camps… the overdo ... | |
| 100W+ solid-state amps known for beautiful mids Yes they are. I recommend Pass XA series. | |
| Allocation of analog resources @feemoore12. I sure understand the feeling though. When I did this the first time I knew that I would feel like and absolute idiot if this enormous expense didn’t pan out. It would be a permanent mark against the pursuit and my judgement. Having... | |
| Sweet new tube amp needs better speakers I actually have a Prima Luna integrated tube amp driving my Totem speakers. I love the sound. | |
| Fun With Cable Risers All the really great systems I have heard use cable lifters. I put mine in thirty years ago. They are ceramic, like or are for high voltage power lines. They cost maybe $20 each. I had read articles about the magnetic fields around cables and the ... | |
| Anybody own a component that sounds better with the cover off? Audio Research has experimented and changed their top and bottom plates for their non amp components a number of times moving from metal grates to the smoked plastic because they sound better. | |
| Thinking Out Loud @bob540. Sounds like that TT is the source of noise. I understand where you are at. Understand your history. Mine was similar until I started upgrading my turntable… admittedly a long time ago. But the albums that were warn and dirty from my teen... |