ghdprentice
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| All things being equal (hypothetical) which do you prefer, XLR or RCA? I have used single ended for the last fifty years. I have monitored reviews and forums on the subject... and specifically reviews on my Audio Reseach Reference gear... Phonostage, preamp, DAC, and amp RE160s. ARC equipment is balanced internally, ... | |
| Connecting a streamer via an Ethernet cable @surfmuzFunny, you said you thought it wouldn’t matter on a inexpensive streamer and my reaction is it would matter most on a inexpensive streamer. My reason is that a high quality streamer has all sorts of buffering and retiming built in and wor... | |
| Definitely lonely to be an audiophile I never thought of the dog aspect. I have a love seat as listening chair with the left seat in the sweet spot for me and the right for one of my dogs. She likes classical and jazz mostly... but will get up, and go to the corner if I put on somethi... | |
| Seeking ideas about how to improve my system I was an early responder to this topic string, who mentioned I was in the same place as I had upgraded my headphone system to be much better than my main system. After upgrading my main system I haven’t picked up my headphones. I have a little tim... | |
| Amp for Sonus Faber Sonetto ii- 1500 or less If you haven’t seen this. You may find interesting.https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2018/12/30/sonus-faber-sonetto-ii-speakers-review/ | |
| New turntable: TW or Obama? Both tables look great ones . I’m partial to the wood. These days I care about looks than I used to. | |
| Speaker Cables One of the problems is that different people appreciate different sound. Also, the overall sound you get is the result of all the components together. For quit a while in my early days I bought some very high quality interconnects and speaker cabl... | |
| Music and Gear Over time I went from analysis and upgrade to just listening and enjoying the music. Then after five or ten years, something... available funds / advances in technology... read an article, I upgrade something. This then throws the rest of my syste... | |
| Long term audiophile seeks room acoustic experience..., It is dependent on speaker technology and speaker location. My best results for cone floor standing speakers has been:1) wall behind speaker first (I use heavy Afghan carpet as a wall hanging). There are products to do this as well. For ribbon spe... | |
| Turntable lid up or off? I must admit to being interested in the answer. I never put the dust cover on my TT... currently a Linn LP12. I always thought they would vibrate and that would not be good. So I did a search and quick survey of the literature, virtually every dis... | |
| Connecting a streamer via an Ethernet cable Hmmm, after reading the comments, I bet the results are very highly dependent on the streamer. Some folks comment on drop outs. While I have trouble with wifi on my iPad at the same location, my streamer never has drop outs... but I have one of th... | |
| Connecting a streamer via an Ethernet cable @ghosthouse ‘I'm interested in your experience but having trouble understanding that last sentence. Perhaps a typo? Would you mind explaining further??THANKS.“Sorry for not being clear. Every time either I thought something (like a digital cable... | |
| Sub-$1250 DAC w/ built-in Headphone Amp Many DAC / Amps are available... it is not unusual. But since you are looking to upgrade already... you are likely to be happy with an upgrade and spur you on to wonder more. Then an integrated can be a liability. Since you are on this forum you a... | |
| Sub-$1250 DAC w/ built-in Headphone Amp Schiit Gungnir I own one and have compared the whole range while searching for a friend. We chose the Yggi for him. The Gungnir multibit gets you most of the Yggi for half price. The thing with Schiit products are they are generally really excelle... | |
| Connecting a streamer via an Ethernet cable I am using a wifi extender, connected to an EtherRegen Switch, connected via Ethernet to my Aurender WE20se. My audio guy recommended this when I got rid of my streamer that connected directly to wifi (Auralic Aries G2). I’d be interested in knowi... |