ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Audio Research Pre-Amp advice Yes… used LS28SE… or LS28… or as far back as you have to go to meet your budget. Outstanding preamps. You get a great deal of the Reference sound. I would not be afraid of the Refs though. I have owned a Reference 5SE for ten years… never need... | |
| DH Labs Prelude Speaker cable DHLabs is my go to budget cable / interconnect. They are outstanding. Very neutral and work well in all applications I have ever used them. I have a couple sets of interconnects, Ethernet, power cords, and USB. They have never been anything but a ... | |
| Insurance for system My insurance agent is a friend of mine. I asked about the system… and my extensive camera and fountain pen collection. No specific policy is required. It is covered as are all things under the home owners policy. Yes, photos make it easier… and re... | |
| Back to the DAC I definitely agree that combined DAC and streamer is not a good idea. Typically you will get one strong component and one weak one. Exam-Les of this is the Lina (good DAC poor streamer) and the Aurender lines (great streamers, ok DACs). For DA... | |
| Speakers, floor standing or Bookshelfs I personally prefer to have high quality full range speakers… without subs. Although I have had floor standards with two subs for about thirty years. Good quality floor standers are designed for coherent sound across the spectrum. Then there ... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Definitely look at Nessie. Beautifully constructed, quiet and effective. I replaced my VPI a few years ago. The difference was like night and day. | |
| Can a power amp have too much power, risking damage to a speaker? I’ve always had power amps that far exceeded the power handling capacity of my speakers. Never damaged a speakers. Particularly with solid state amps most speakers benefit from having large excess capacity, yielding more solidity. As my systems g... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati G5 vs Lilium I have heard them both and own Amati Traditional. I guess I have to say definitely worth the money. I have to sidestep the categorization because of the subjectivity. The sound quality is higher… more dynamic, with greater impact and nuance, anlso... | |
| How does speaker placement affect the width of the soundstage? In a word, yes… big time. The space between the speakers, toe in… distance from listener, how close to wall behind, side wall distance and the reflectivity of the wall behind the speaker. Doing a good job of tuning them is a long termed persui... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations I’d have a look at Totem. They have several bookshelf speakers. I have a pair of Mites and a matching mini sub. They are wonderfully punchy and natural… beautifully crafted. Mine are cherry they are simply stunning and do great off center. Perfect... | |
| Opinions on PS Audio Direct Stream DAC (Mk 1) Op, I have found that with the exception of the very grossest measures like wpc (that is also doubling into lower impedance) measurements are largely meaningless. I mean seriously. I do not look at them. Waste of time. Early on in my pursui... | |
| Ethernet Cables - what are you using and why? DHLabs from wifi extenders to Aurender W20SE and N100. Have tried a number of equivalent and less expensive. One notably more expensive one sounded notably poor. But in general, with my W20SE the difference was small in comparison with interconnec... | |
| All in one unit for headphones- help me decide @v-fi +1 Very few integrated components with speaker outputs have quality headphone outputs… even on $10K units. I have heard some people say there are some. But I have never heard one. So I would definitely nick the two bottom ones. | |
| Measurement Bias Any measurement bias disappeared very quickly when I got into high end audio fifty years ago. My eyes would flit from watts per channel specs, distortion, etc. and what I heard and that was the end of it. There was virtually no correlation between... | |
| Sonus Faber Nove II or III I have found with SF the higher up the hierarchy the greater the depth and fullness of the sound and the lower the volume required to be satisfying. I would say the speakers you contemplate would be a very significant upgrade and would make you ve... |