ghdprentice
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| Looks for Headphone Tube Amp Congratulations. One can get a rewarding system at most investment levels by carefully chosen components. Since some of your stuff is still new, it should sound a bit better after passing the 200+ hours on everything. | |
| Does adding a steamer to a Roon Nucleus / server improve audio output If you are looking for high sound quality it is a requirement. PCs are very noisy. My first streamer was a Auralic G2, then I moved to Aurender and now own their flagship W20SE. Each a major improvement. Now my digital side is as satisfying to lis... | |
| quiet classical music Chopin Nocturnes | |
| New edition of Harley's guide on the way Cool. Glad to hear it. If there is one thing I would recommend to all folks interested in audio, it would be to read this book. It would answer so many questions and help standardize terminology used in the forum. I re-read it periodically. It pro... | |
| quiet classical music Handel’s Watermusic immediately comes to mind. A lot of baroque lacks big peaks and troughs and drones on… (yes, there was some personal judgement in that). | |
| How are you getting your surround sound? @scar972 Movies that are available in 4K are streamed in 4K on Apple and Amazon. We watch 3 movies a week and virtually all are 4K. Both Apple and Amazon stream movies in ATMOS. Our older processor does not support ATMOS. It does support TrueHD an... | |
| How are you getting your surround sound? I have a older high end surround processor, with excellent speakers and amp. We stream through Apple most of the time, also Amazon, and Comcast. For the last few years streaming has been sonically equivalent to blu-Rays. We bought a few 4K disks a... | |
| 100 watts enough? I have to agree with those suggesting powerful amps. You want more than just enough, you want a high current amp. I would also recommend the Pass x350.8. I owned an x350 for fifteen years. Tremendous current, and it should make your speakers sound... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? @tom2015…”but skipping from song to song” Funny you should say that, because the exact same thing happened to me. Streaming caused me to “channel surf” so to speak. So I took apart my streaming end about five or six years ago (Apple notebook). I w... | |
| Buying used: how old is too old? I think it depends on the speaker. I had some ESS AMT 1Ds that had the cones disintegrate after about 15 years. I have had my 2 of my 20 year old 4 B&W 800 “retaped”. Some of the older speakers may have been made out of material that may not ... | |
| Amplifier Break-in - It's Real For a couple reasons I broke in three Audio Research Reference 160s amplifiers. Each time the sound differences were obvious and followed the same sequence at roughly the same time… just generally starting out bright for the first 10 hours (new la... | |
| Dumb question? Yes, that is fine. | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? Yes the most common comparable companies are Audio Research and Conrad Johnson. I believe all are excellent brands. While I have auditioned all and all respected, I have all ARC components. | |
| Will line conditioner do anything for the other receptacle in a duplex? No I agree with Jason, although I have not tested it. However there are a number of wall wart devices that you plug into a duplex receptacle which are supposed to help reduce noise everywhere, or in the adjacent plug. Based on reviews I have a few... | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? People make choices on how to live their life, how dedicated to work they are, how much investment in their education they make, and how to spend their money. There are disparaging remarks on the opposite side of “filthy rich”. |