ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| It's been a long time. If your digital sounds less fleshed out and natural. Then it is the components... streamer and DAC that are the reason. These days it isn't the source medium but the components that determine the ultimate sound. So, I would first look at getting a... | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. @knotscott +1 Yep, look at contemporary speakers. I would review Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, and HiFi+ recommended component issues. Concentrate on descriptions that strike you as your liking in sound quality. Then get on the road. Make... | |
| Pure Silver Wire Cheap silver interconnect and cables are incredibly harsh. Good silver cables require a lot of design work with the kind of wire, geometry and dielectric casing. Maybe there is more to it than that. Silver cables have been both the very worst cabl... | |
| LoFi It is easy to have your analytical side take over your system. You focus your minds eye on things you have never heard before or the ends of the sonic spectrum. It is exciting to hear stuff you haven’t heard before and then one goes to get more of... | |
| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? Wow, you flip a lot of albums. That's like 8 sides a day. I had a Van den Hull Frog that I am sure I had 2,000 hours on. He advertised they would run twice as long as your typical cartridge... which the rule of thumb is 1,200... so 2,400. | |
| Cary SLP 98 vs Benchmark LA4 Yes, these are very different. Cary is musical and natural sounding... a bit warmer than Conrad Johnson and quite a bit more than Audio Research. Benchmark highly detailed and somewhat sterile sounding. Long term, I have found the highly detailed ... | |
| Balanced vs RCA preamps The quality and sonic characteristics of the preamp are of the highest importance and the interconnect capabilities are of a vastly smaller or of no importance. But the world is slowly migrating to balanced. On some equipment they may sound slight... | |
| System Advice I have to agree that Schiit is a good brand to look at for a DAC. However, I would enjoy your new toys and save up for a better DAC. If you set yourself up so digital doesn't come close to your analog end then your will be selling your self short.... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? I wish I had an explanation for the vastly better sound you get with a good preamp. I don't. But in almost every case it is. This may change over time as DACs incorporate ramps into their circuitry... also, separate boxes almost always sound bette... | |
| Has this ever happened to you? Congratulations. I can't say this has happened to me exactly that way. But once I have gone through an upgrade cycle... my attention turns from the system to the music and there is typically a big sigh of relief and an appreciation of the music ... | |
| A little puzzled by my newly acquired Yamaha A-S801 Just from my experiences with Yamaha and Rotel. That sounds about right. Rotel tends to have a more full bodied sound... it is generally an extremely good value for the money. Yamaha... especially in the very budget consumer category tends to soun... | |
| Amp suggestion for Merlin TSM speakers @ht_fan "Every time I heard the Merlins they were on Joule electronics and sounded amazing with them!" Yes, that is what I heard them with as well and with the same result. | |
| The Power Plant Regenerator debate drags on @carlsbad2 +1 Definitely ignore anything from ASR. I completely agree. Honestly, I take most of what Paul says with a grain of salt. He really likes to listen to himself talk. I have been in this pursuit for fifty years. I remember when the ... | |
| Amplifier gain settings - what do they do? Amp on last so if a tube pops on startup or other large surge it will not go through the amplifier and damage the amp and or speakers. My Audio Research equipment is muted for 1.5 minutes on my preamp and 3.5 minutes on the amp... assuring the pre... | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! @jkhjr Excellent comments! Pointing out the essence of the differences between some high end brands and of course Magico are the ultimate microscope through which to hear differences. Also, showing how matching is critical. |