ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Why so much love for Mcintosh? @mrklasThat is what it is all about finding what really about for many of us, the music. | |
| How do you listen? Right now I am listening to jazz.. about 75db.My symphony seats are 8th row center (on aisle on left). The crescendos are too loud. But when there is a soloist the violin sound hole or piano sounding board is pointed at me. This makes the solos am... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 30i or Sonus Faber Olympica II 😊👍 | |
| For SACD fans only As Fuzztone brought up. Perhaps it is useful to remember CDs and SACDs are disks with computer files on them. Those files can be relocated to a hard drive, network drive, or they are available on internet servers through streaming services. The re... | |
| CD Alternative Not listening to a full album at a time was a problem I used to have until I upgraded my streamer to raise the sound quality to CD (I have a very good CD player); nearly vinyl quality. Now exactly the opposite happens, I’ll start listening to some... | |
| Dynaudio Contour 30i or Sonus Faber Olympica II I have been reading The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, listening to high end systems, and upgrading my systems for decades. my theory was swapping SF for my ribbon speakers would change paths to higher overall musical fidelity. I verified my theory ... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. Worst hair… not sure cut is involved. | |
| Dynaudio Contour 30i or Sonus Faber Olympica II I bought Sonus Gaber Olympica 3 without heating them… I did. Lot of research and had purchased a set of Cremona as a test to verify my belief that SF was the right was to go. It was. I now own a pair of Sonus Faber Amati Traditional.I was a planar... | |
| DAC connection: which type gives highest fidelity? It depends. Generally optical is not good, skip that one. But USB versus SP/DIF or AES depends on the DAC since USB requires the DAC to retime the signal the others do not. So, it depends on the quality of the DAC versus the source. Generally, AES... | |
| System and speakers in a large room vs in a small room? Yes, I believe mating speakers of the appropriate size is important. My audio guy of over twenty years is adamant about it. He has been setting up high end systems all that time and has seen how under performing too small or too large are. He has ... | |
| CD Alternative There is an evolution going on. It started with a CD Player and will end with streaming. We are far enough along that there are high end solutions for the each end of the spectrum and anywhere in between. Solutions exist at most price points $1,00... | |
| Variation on a theme. What are your other passions in life? Bicycle ridingLiteraturePhilosophy: Metaphysics / Epistemology Red WinePhotography | |
| Spring Theory Thanks for your post Greenbean (😊). I just received my first set of Nobosound springs… thanks for the tip MillerCarbon. They had a positive effect under my 36 pound CD player / DAC… quieter background. So, I ordered three more sets. It would never... | |
| Tiny bridges everywhere, but why? Ahh, you are in the early stages. Try this. Consider the system you have to be your reference system. So, instead of thinking of selling it all, think of it as a very long termed project to very slowly and carefully move to your ideal system. But ... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. Sounds like Steve is running out of stuff to talk about. |