ghdprentice
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| Any idea which headphones I’d like? @toddcowles I choose the premium parts upgrade and upgraded all tubes… Takatsuki 300B, Sophia 274B (I love the look and have used them before) and upgraded driver tubes (their offering for driver tubes are a bit different now. | |
| Any idea which headphones I’d like? “ is that a Woo Audio tube setup, by chance?”Yes, my system has a Woo WA5-LE. I have had several Woo amps WA6… and WA6se. Each in turn sounded better and had more power. I wanted to go a couple steps further. And it was well worth it. The WA5 has ... | |
| My battle with sibilance. Cymbals… really good point. I struggled with the sound of cymbals for years. I kept finding that the ting… and following ring was mostly distortion, and that when I got to a certain level suddenly they started sounding like brass… a very different... | |
| Any idea which headphones I’d like? Putting together a headphone system is every much as challenging as a two channel system although it can be less expensive. You can see my main system and headphone system by clicking on my ID. Major players include Focal, Sennheiser, Hifiman, Aud... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality @jallan. +1As a practical matter a well chosen streaming system will equal or outperform a CD system (due to the greater availability of higher resolution files). The difficulty in assembling such a system will become easier in the future. Just as... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality For equally quality systems, in general, a red book CD is indistinguishable from the streamed version on my system. This was true for my previous system as well. Perhaps there are a few that have different files being used… but that is an exceptio... | |
| "Need" Roon, Bluesound Node, or or other streamer? @sbank. +1Generic PCs do not make good streamers. They just sound good on paper. My streaming systems did not start getting into High quality sound until I got a dedicated streamer. They are highly shielded with quiet power supplies. There are ma... | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) Seriously a REF5 for $6,900CAD? I’d jump on that without a second thought. | |
| Help - New to streaming and Zen Innuos Happy to help. Also, as far as cleaning up WiFi. There are a number of Ethernet cleaning devices. The EtherRegen is a ~$640 device to clean up the ethernet signal, there are also much more expensive devices that are highly reviewed. My audio guy b... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Thx. | |
| Nakamichi Dragon In general a good high FI repair shop should be able to fix it. For a competent repair shop these things are electromechanical devices made up of standard components… sensors, motors, resistors… etc. tThere is a shop up here in Portlnd that fixes ... | |
| Choosing and buying headphones I have owned a number of Denton and Focal. I would choose Focal of the two. While it certainly depends on taste… I had to buy a big high powered amp to get Denon’s bass under control. Focal are easy to drive, well balanced and detailed… I think a ... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Where do you buy SRA platforms. I emailed the company a couple days ago, but haven’t gotten a response. | |
| Help - New to streaming and Zen Innuos I am an old geezer as well and have navigated the digital transformation over the last twenty years. So, let me try and help.The end game is high quality streaming. If you do that right, then the CD disk and/or storage is just an non essential int... | |
| Need help placing a second subwoofer. I always place them in stereo pairs behind and outside (if possible) the main speakers. This significantly extends the soundstage. You want the arrival times to reinforce the main speakers. |