ghdprentice
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| My Terrible Emotiva Experience @artemus_5 Its a Grown up position. its like when you were 4 yrs old and fell down and started to cry. Then your dad comes over, and, seeing that you are not hurt, he brushes you off & tells you to, "Go on now. You're a big boy"So, I see you ... | |
| Speaker Cables One of my favorites, which I still use on my office system was HD12D... something like that. Years ago, I think it was Stereophile or The Absolute Sound, just for fun, went to Home Depot and got a 12 gauge extension cord and threw it into the mix.... | |
| Turntables.....A point of diminishing returns? Good question. The answer depends on your means, preferences, and sensitivity. Let’s say you have a really expensive (for you) $5K turntable and you love music and a good system and your income doubles? That $10,000 table looks more enticing and r... | |
| My Terrible Emotiva Experience @himeropeThanks for your sharing. I appreciate your reasoned and well presented experience. You come across as reasonable and perfectly justified in your disappointment. Where Artimas’ is coming from is hard to understand..Unfortunately, for every... | |
| Definitely lonely to be an audiophile I love traveling. The moment I am at the airport I am off the grid. Although someone could call me they don’t. Then in Japan or China, wherever I am, the moment I have a minute I slip off into anonymity and explore the quiet back streets and parks... | |
| Japanese Audio Having worked and lived in Japan off and on over the last 25 years or so. To me it fits the culture... supremely considerate, conforming, traditional, and meticulous in iterative in pursuit of perfection. Crafting the essence of the music not slap... | |
| Switching to battery power Good and timely question. Over the years I have heard a number of units that were spectacular sounding that run off battery power. My Aurender WE20se has an internal battery. It seems logical that if you could run your whole system... what potenti... | |
| Looking for my Final Pair!! Well speaker choice is a very personal thing. Given what you were looking for I think there are some obvious places to look. I have been an audio file for 50 years. I have enjoyed plateaus and which iced stuck with the same equipment for 5 to 10 y... | |
| 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... |