ghdprentice
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| Fear of volume control @sns I’m the same. I have a furnace room with a extra refrigerator next to my listening area. Both are relatively quiet but to keep the noise down I turn the AC off. Fortunately I can do this with my iPhone after I sit down. I’m probably going to ... | |
| Noise floors Over the next few decades as electric vehicles are replaced by internal combustion should make a big difference. The real question is when will internal combustion get outlawed so the fast and furious idiots get off the freeway. We live a half mil... | |
| CDP or DAC? @aolmrd1241… Good point… perhaps that is not as well known as I thought. I assumed at this point most high end companies have positioned their CD players to be DAC / CD players. When I bought a Sim Moon 650D about ten years ago it was advertised a... | |
| Fluids.... I use VPI. I have used it for twenty five years. I think I did research on fluids then an chose it. Haven’t reviewed the literature since then. | |
| Is it worth replacing an old amp? My experience has been primarily with Pass and a few other brands over fifty years. An amplifier made by the same manufacturer will show significant improvements in ten years and a huge difference in twenty. It is a competitive market and to stay ... | |
| Preamps opinion I had a AudioResearch REF 5SE with a Pass x350 for many years, I found it a wonderful combination. | |
| HiFi Furniture Looks like a nice rack. | |
| CDP or DAC? @jond …I am sure Audio Research has a huge supply of transports for repair so their customers never become boat anchor owners… it is a reputable company. Also, I actually do not use the transport part, I use it as a DAC. I had a Berkeley Alpha 3 (... | |
| Best Sounding Speaker Cables? @mahlman I suppose obsessing about wire would be a bit silly. But the often substantial effect on sound quality of cables and interconnects is pretty counterintuitive. So folks that thought it silly and then hear the difference are likely to be vo... | |
| Where do you put your money? As a percent of income is an interesting figure. If I average my income over the last ten years (relatively stable) then it is 100%. So the total cost of my system equals my average annual income. | |
| CDP or DAC? If you want to get close to analog I recommend an Audio Research CD9se. This is the best sounding CD player / DAC I have heard. The tubes allow for a wonderful midrange bloom and natural analog sound. I actually did a side by side comparison with ... | |
| Can you share your older Pass Labs experiences? Considering the feedback from others I’ll add some further thoughts. The XA lines are warm and natural with low power. The X lines are very powerful but less warm. Pairing is important, for the XA series with the right speaker and the X series the... | |
| Can you share your older Pass Labs experiences? I have owned Pass amps for 40 years and very highly recommend them. I only recently moved to a tube amp. They are built like tanks, have high current designs, with excellent neutral / natural sound. | |
| Smaller Audio/Video stores- Free delivery service My dealer drops demo units by my house and sets them up. When I decide to buy, I keep the demo unit until my new one is delivered. He brings it over and installs it… meaning making sure all components are working correctly together. I am 35 to 45 ... | |
| Where do you put your money? Interesting question. I hadn’t calculated it recently.System 80%Recordings 20% (if I was doing this starting now… I would only have a Qobuz subscription, $19.95 / month, no physical media)Breaking down system only:Speakers 23%Music Server 16%Pream... |