ghdprentice
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| Help Me Improve My Turntable Set-Up I have to agree with church man. Schiit is really good for the money, but they are really budget stuff. If you want to get what the Harbeth’s are capable of you are going to have to significantly upgrade all your electronic components. | |
| Auralic Aries The Aries is a good streamer, with a great presentation and leagues ahead of cell phones, iPads and dozens of low and mid-FI streamers. It was never my intent to bash it. High FI has many levels of performance. Depending on your equipment you alwa... | |
| Listening to digital and analog @kcpellethead .My DAC is the Audio Research CD9se. Which by the way I compared in my system with a Berkeley Alpha 3 which is considerably more expensive than the ARC. I found really minuscule differences between the two with my tastes favoring th... | |
| Tube preamp enhancement of HT processor sound My ARC system is a completely separate system. You can see it by clicking on my user ID. My home theater is not shown, but is a high end Meridian Surround processor, a 250 wpc Rotel 5 channel amp, and all B&W 805 speakers, so it is all solid ... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration @millercarbon.”Engineer you say…”. I was trained as a scientist. I got out of school and needed to get a job to buy a suit and get money to move and look for a job in my profession. I was working at a start up company as a manual laborer. When equ... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? @cakyol .I think you are on to a bright idea… maybe make it out of a more electrical resistant material and put it in a vacuum so it doesn’t burn up. | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? @williewonka +1yep, my experience has been wading around the shallow end is pretty much the same. But once you get into the deep (high) end, the difference is profound. | |
| Audiophile Vacations I make my audio trips either a one day trip or fit it in business trip. Vacations are for the South Pacific or the Caribbean. | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration @millercarbon .First thing I learned out of college. Got a job as electro mechanical engineer. I needed to have a perfect gripping material to coat a rotating drum that was to pull fiberglass. I got out my calculator and tables of coefficients of ... | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? I have experienced many phono stages, and in general they are extremely important in the system as a whole. They are far up the signal path and dealing with a minuet signal, they must be very quiet and high quality to do it well. However, also the... | |
| 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... |