ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Advice needed re: new CD player purchase Congratulations. Look forward to hearing your comments. | |
| Looking for thoughts on Sonus Faber speakers @jjss49 Yes. In the beginning for me, I remembered amplified concerts and "good stereos" in college early ’70s). These had me recreating some shrill and often overly detailed sound. While great, it optimized one genera over all others (I was ... | |
| Bose speaker Have a close look at Totem. They are great... sound, natural an punchy, excellent fit and finish. I have a pair for my office. I love them. | |
| Who Tried Power Conditioners Over The Years and No Longer Use Them Today, Any Why? Yes, we all have different power and therefore power conditioning needs. Our neighborhood has buried power cables, I have two direct lines... but alas a power conditioner makes a big difference. | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation @millercarbon is quite right. An expensive interconnect can have a component level effect on a system. I have had three systems around for a long time. Occasionally I’ll swap some rediculously expensive cable into one of my less expensive systems,... | |
| Looking for thoughts on Sonus Faber speakers I think the KEF / SF comparison is important. A bit of forward treble comes off as more detailed... but it has a cost on realism. Real music (acoustic) has all the detail as presented by SF, but not the bit of extra forwardness. It is the naturaln... | |
| Coiling XLRs.... yes or no? Thanks. Good to hear the results of your experiment. | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation The rule of thumb is 10 - 15% of total budget. But depends on your components. One thing I learned early on, with modest components, be careful of too transparent interconnects. My system didn't sound better with truly neutral interconnects until ... | |
| Upgrading from the Schiit Freya+ I think you can be sure upgrading can net you significant gains. I owned a Sonic Frontiers CD for many years and tried out one of their preamps. While very warm I found lacking in detail. I would highly recommend looking for a used Audio Research ... | |
| To DAC or not to DAC ? Cool. Good choice. Take your time, you will be rewarded. | |
| New speaker cables recommendations sought 👍 | |
| Tube Line Stage around $5k Congratulations. Zesty gets good reviews. One of my friends has a Zesto Phono-stage. | |
| How to Improve Gain for RCA on Preamp. Can it be done? I remember getting my first "highly rated" phono-stage at that price point long ago. It was truly terrible. Unfortunately phono-stages are not good at that price point. Typically they are only ok at ten times that. I would save up and then buy use... | |
| Best light weight full range speaker recommendation. In general, I have found the better the speakers the more they weigh. If you are buying speakers in that category, I would expect the dealer to come over and set them up, and tune them. If you need to move them... yes furniture sliders make ea... | |
| Bose speaker Bose has always been a marketing company claiming they sold high-end speakers but they sounding completely low end. They have given the high end a really bad name. Good luck selling them. |