ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Pass XA100.8 or X260.8 Great system you have. I have owned Pass amps for 40 years… most recently the X350. I would definitely go the XA100 route. You get a more natural musical sound. Which after many years of pursuing greater and greater slam and detail I realized kept... | |
| Tube based phono stage My experience with phonostages are that they are really critical to analog playback and given your other equipment it would recommend you to shop used and try and reach up another level. Phonostages get much better at around twice your budget. Aud... | |
| To Stream or Not to Stream I don’t feel nostalgic about being freed from listening to what I purchased and physicaly posses. A little time with the freedom from needing to physically possessed music and I started exploring more kinds of music and revisiting music much less ... | |
| What will you pay for a new LP? I have 2,000 lps, mostly in pristine condition. I’ll pay up to about $40. But I prefer to brouse the used store and pick up albums in great shape for $5 - 15 then carefully clean them, LAST preserve them and add to my collection. | |
| To Stream or Not to Stream I highly recommend Aurender streamers. I think to combination of the Yggi and the Aurender streamer is a good one. I have two Aurender Streamers 100N and W20SE. Personally I recommend not ripping your CDs. I would focus investing in components to ... | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) @tomic601 .Sweet doggy. We had a pair of black labs a long time ago… loved them very much. You have a house full of beautiful systems as well. I had Apogee’s for many years. | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson @jjss49 .Very true… actually on some components also… particularly on source. I chose carefully on the CD player I bought in the past. Too resolving and you can have many recordings sound bad because the high end is tuned up to catch every detail ... | |
| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. @mijostyn.Well, I am talking about acoustic live music. Electrified concerts are frequently terrible sounding… you are listening to an audio system in a location of terrible acoustics. I stopped going to concerts like that twenty years ago. Live m... | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson @steakster .Yep, the better the system the more any change matters. Really high resolving speaker enhance this. | |
| How many dealers do you use? On average I probably go through an upgrade cycle every ten years and it takes one to two years to do it. I just love the time in between enjoying the music.One of the reasons I have been active on the forums is that over the last couple years I u... | |
| Is your now then? @yaddy.+1 | |
| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. @tomwh " The biggest issue I see with the out spoken people is there lack of experience with live real music. They always fall back on detail and pump up highs. They use the terms air around instrument , black background, neutral, sound stage, etc... | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson I understand the appeal of Wilson. I have heard them over decades and still have the WAMM audition etched in my mind. The holographic imagery. I was overwhelmed and appreciated the sound, but at the same time, said that is not the sound I want to ... | |
| What is the reason for this? (Digital vs Vinyl Question) Congratulations on the upgrade. I can completely understand your surprise. While digital has been getting better, typically you have to work at it and throw a lot more money at it for it to sound similar, let alone better. For decades I have tried... | |
| How many dealers do you use? I generally have a dealer that I know well and knows me. Typically the relationship lasts for twenty years or more. The alignment first comes from the brands he/she carries, as this shows a common sensibility. I occasionally buy some things on lin... |