ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? Yes, preamps are dinosaurs as they were 200 million years ago. They will go extinct, but not soon. | |
| Audio Research from VSi75 to LS28SE/VT80SE or Ref 6SE/Ref75SE? No question The Ref 6SE / Ref 75se. These are world class components. What you have is good… but these are in a whole different league. I have a ARC Ref 6SE… it is a stunning preamp.. before this I had a REF5se. The preamp is really critical in se... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please I am not sure this is of much value but, I have a Koetsu Rosewood Signature and love it. Great balance and detail. Putting $5K cartridges on turntables and dialing it in is for my dealer. The only thing I am likely to do touching it is destroy it.... | |
| How Do You Learn? Interesting conversation. Having words to describe attributes is critical. One could come up with them yourselves… but I am guessing learning would be an order of magnitude or several orders of magnitude slower. There are certain people… good at b... | |
| To pre-amp. or not to pre-amp! Yes preamp. The higher quality the better the sound. Preamps are really important and if you want great sound the more you invest the better… like all components. | |
| What percentage of the time do you listen to records vs. digital sources? The ratio has been changing over the last couple decades from 90% vinyl to now 98% digital. The last couple years I upgraded to a top level streamer as well as up graded the rest of my components to tube equipment. Now digital is just as satisfyin... | |
| Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same? I have collected vinyl since the late 60’s. When digital came out, I added it as a sometimes used medium. But vinyl was so superior. I started with solid state… but eventually was able to upgrade my Threshold preamp to a tubed Audio Research pream... | |
| Experience with Moon by Simaudio amps & preamps Perhaps I should explain my use if the word harsh in conjunction with the Moon. I chose the wrong word… I just should have said analytical / details highlighted. It was not fatiguing at all. Fatigue is caused by copious quantities of distortion an... | |
| The Most Cost Effective Tweak Most cost effective tweek is probably getting your speaker placement correct. Depending on the speakers an 1/8” move in the right way can have a significant impact.As far as break-in. I do my upgrades over a short time (say a year)… typically many... | |
| Experience with Moon by Simaudio amps & preamps I owned a Sim Moon 650D DAC/CD for many years. I added a 820 power supply which doubled the cost, but also significantly improved the noise floor and overall presentation. I did not buy the 750D because it was clear it would be too revealing and h... | |
| Recommended streamers/servers? There are fundamental differences between using a streamers USB output to DAC versus SP/DIFF or AES output to DAC. Depending on the strength of your DAC one or the other can sound much better. The DAC must retime the USB bitstream, the others it d... | |
| Why so many tubes? “Why not having 1 or 2 cylinder high performance cars?”😊😊👍😊😊 | |
| Room treaments Yes. To my mind you are right on track. What are the dimensions of your room and system. But in general sounds perfect. Do one at a time if you completely know the sound of your system. | |
| Audio Research VSi75 - End of Tube Life? KT120 vs KT150? I’m guessing the KT120’s just sound more relaxed. I have a ARC REF160 and I operate it in the triode mode… so little difference in impact (half the wattage) but ever so slightly warmer character. I’m guessing reaching for more power is coming at t... | |
| How Do You Learn? @millercarbonI’ll have to come up and claim that chicken dinner sometime… if this pandemic would ever end. I spent last week in Leavenworth… closer to your place. |