ghdprentice
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| Improving my Preamp Audio Research Reference 6. I have owned previous lower en ARC preamps, Reference 5SE (6 years)… and for the last couple years Reference 6SE. I can’t recommend it too much. For nearly forty years I paired these with Pass solid state amps. My jour... | |
| Lifespan of components? I suspect typically 35 to 50 years or more , based on my experience… not much. But we all know capacitor performance falls after some time… probably less than twenty years. Then there is better performance in new stuff. Typically even in amps ten ... | |
| The hunt is over Congratulations, beautiful. … just in the nick of time it appears, looks like you running out of room. I reach happy plateaus, I am one past my end game system. | |
| Smart buying buying a preamp with tubes anot avail except as made by preamp manuf? No way I would ever buy into that. Companies come and go… tubes require replacement. | |
| Starting over @lou_setriodes +1 | |
| Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like? Going to electrified concerts, like rock concerts, makes you better able to make judgements on equipment when playing recordings of live concerts, but not studio albums. | |
| A different world @audiom3 Wow, really sorry to hear all the work it took. I got a couple $69 wall wart repeaters for my two systems and and got there. I did put in a EtherRegen on my main system, but it made only a tiny improvement. | |
| Sound I can’t say I like tweaking things, I would be more happy to plunk things down and enjoy. But I long ago learned that will not get great sound. I will say I now, once I get to a new higher plateau of performance and am very happy to stay there for... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer If you are asking the question of high fidelity consumer equipment… no. Equalization always has negative impacts on sound… so while you might make a few gross changes… you are going to lose fidelity by putting a bunch of pots or digitally manipula... | |
| FEDEX keeps destroying my New CARY 805RS Monoblocks - What can I do to prevent Nightmare? Congratulations Mike! My hat off to Cary. That shows commitment when an executive drives hours to meet a customer. | |
| Primaluna? Actually my experience with heavy weight as an indicator of sound quality includes CD players, DACs, streamers speakers, as well as phono-stages. This is not a causal explanation, but a virtual 100% correlation observation. Some of comes from very... | |
| Does your system sound change with the seasons? Well happily, I have not noticed this with my system. I have a very good system as well. Sunday night late it sounds best… yes. But happy to,hear your comments. | |
| Recomendation on a small DAC & Headphone amp for office desk Ok, just a bit of warning… I did this. From what you said… well sounds like me. You can see where I ended up (click on my user ID to see my headphone system). It starts this way… then, well it doesn’t have the bass… or the detail.. you have ex... | |
| Magico A1 or Sopra 1 or Marten Oscar Duo Honestly it is going to depend on your tastes. The Magico is so revealing I would only run them with tubes.. I used to own a Simaudio 650d with the external power supply (for 7 years)… too lean and lacking in bass for Magico.. I would choose which... | |
| Improvement of MacBook Air for Streaming Tidal Looking at your DAC and preamp you want to make a similar investment. I would recommend either an Aurender N100 or an Aurender N10. You have very good components, you want to chose as good or better… this is your source, if it’s not there…then the... |