ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| CD Transport or media server/streamer Also, whether better via USB or AES / Other digital input is dependent on the DAC / streamer combo. | |
| When to Amp it Up? @ja_kub_sz Yes. Sonus Faber Amati Traditional. Photos of my system under my ID. | |
| When to Amp it Up? I was driven to very high current / power amps for my love of electrostatic / planar speakers. Hence Pass designed amps. When I finally moved to traditional speakers I felt the possibilities opened up. Higher quality solid state amps generally in... | |
| CD Transport or media server/streamer Yes, your CD player has a compliment of digital inputs on the back, so you can use it as a DAC. You could attach a streamer and a transport. I recommend not using the optical, they tend not to be as good. Transports within CD players tend to be u... | |
| Are tubes psychological? Kind of like having a fire in the fireplace. | |
| Advice on new headphone system please Merry Christmas Paul. I am not sure I remember all your requirements. I don’t think your choice of The Rouge is wrong or bad in any way. But given some of your requirements you might look at the Woo WA22. Woo amps have a real natural, organic and ... | |
| Vacuum Tube testing service in NYC Metro area What is the reason for you want a service? You can buy a tube tester… although, I found it simple to trouble shoot by swapping tubes. I buy balanced sets for my equipment… but what is your goal… expectations. | |
| Santa didnt bring me a $20k linestage It’s probably tied up in a congested port… hopefully it will come in a couple weeks. | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? Typically there is a hierarchy of speakers, preamp, source, amp, cables, interconnects, power cords… but in any system they can get scrambled up depending on all sorts of things (components, room acoustics). But while there may be a hierarchy, the... | |
| A cartridge that mates well with the Sutherland Loco phono preamp? Ok. They seem to advertise cartridge output independence and gain adjustability to not care about the cartridge. But it does sound like an unusual design. | |
| Anybody use a single ended component with one that is balanced? @jji666 +1 Don’t add an adapter. If the amp is balanced it a;ready has one and is likely to be of higher quality. The manufacturer has a vested interest in making both inputs sound good. | |
| burn in - how important? As far as I can remember burn in has been very obvious on all new stuff I have purchased, since I got high end gear… 40 years. Over the last few years I have (for various reasons) broke in about five new pieces of Audio Research Reference electron... | |
| Changes in DAC Presentation - Need Advice Well, this is very odd. So, sounds to me like your logic is good. I would add some serious power conditioning. Power is really important. All the great audio components I have had have put a big emphasis on power. A. nmber of them have been two bo... | |
| A cartridge that mates well with the Sutherland Loco phono preamp? I would think the question would be the sound of the arm / cartridge/ turntable. The function of the phono stage is to pass on as exactly as possible the sound it receives. As I upgraded my Phono stage a dozen times ($200 —-> $17,000) over the ... | |
| Changes in DAC Presentation - Need Advice From your description, my first guess woukd be breakin. A number of components I have owned have gone through flip flops in sound quality between 100 and 200 hours of use. The second, and perhaps more likely is your Mac. I assume it is your strea... |