ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Listening to digital and analog For me, after decades of trying to get digital to sound as satisfying as analog it finally has in my system. Over the last few years digital streamers and DACs have gotten a lot better. My system is now completely satisfying for both. While analog... | |
| Tube preamp enhancement of HT processor sound All the components in my audio system after the streamer and the turntable are Audio Research Reference tube equipment. My home theater is all solid state… really good equipment and natural sounding.. My reason for not doing tubes is simply to me ... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration I think it is a bit dependent. One usually prizes perfectionism in a brain surgeon but not in a good manager. I am very pragmatic and can vary my precision based on the task at hand. I my way to the executive level in Corporate IT, so had to deal ... | |
| What are some good sources for buying new LPs and CDs I must admit we have a local record shop and once a month as a treat I go down and pick up a few. | |
| ATC and Loki You know, some systems sound fantastic at all volumes. My current system does sound very good at low volumes. But I have never gotten a handle on what the parameters are of good sound at low volumes… is it mostly the speakers… or what. But over th... | |
| Auralic Aries @rfnoise .Sure hearing more notes can be attributed to lowering the noise floor. But a lot of damage is done to the sound stage, imaging, and background long before the level of covering up actual musical notes occurs. For instance, in a symphony ... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? @fleschler Wow, you are a true collector. Amazing collection. | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? @millercarbon. +1I was trained as a scientist and practiced professionally as one for ten years. I have used the methods and approaches for my entire life in all aspects of my career and life. Science is the starting point and it is like peeling t... | |
| My Last CD player @vitussl101Obviously it depends on the equipment one compares. But a CD player is a mechanical device that reads a file off of a CD, a streamer, and a DAC. The file could just as easily be sourced off of a hard drive, or the internet. Noise is a c... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? @docroasty… ‘I think, if you get the chance, you really have to try the Raal SR1a ribbon headphones for yourself to understand what I’m trying to achieve.”Interesting you bring up headphone systems. Really good headphones simply reflect the nature... | |
| Should the sound level in Triode mode be lower than in Tetrode @imhififan +1 Well put. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Here is the thing… if your system is well balanced tonally and you add warm cables you will loose the details and end up with a system that is warm and emotional with a marked reduction in the high frequency end. I mentioned I used Cardas Gold Cro... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? @nonoise soulds like you are not in the US. There are lots of online used cable places… prices are half or less on older cables. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Cardas Golden Cross! These are the warmest cables I have heard. I used them for twenty years until I was able to improve my electronics. You can buy used for half price. | |
| ATC and Loki Congratulations. I bet this is exciting. First, you want to listen to your new speakers. If you are interested in good sound avoid any equalization. Start by setting up your system and making sure all components are fully broken in… 200 hours of m... |