ghdprentice
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| Is usb reclocking necessary? Interesting question. I have a QB9 Twenty as well. I am feeding it with an Aurender N100. Since the QB9 must depacketize and time the bits I wouldn’t think of that as an option, so I wouldn’t think it would. But absolutely every time I have though... | |
| Different amplifier class for different music genres? I have spent a lot of time thinking about some of these aspects. One of the reasons I reduced my attendance of rock and most electric jazz concerts about twenty years ago… I have been exposed to them and typically go running out during the first t... | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler Well, if you get back to it. Feel free to PM me. We could have a discussion. You are clearly shooting for a great system. | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler Wow, you are right it has been nearly a year, I don’t know how I ran into it. My partner and I have been vaccinated for a couple months the audio shops are opening up by appointment. Have you done anything about an amp? I am in the US but lived ne... | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler I think this is a great question to ask. Your upstream components will point your amp and speakers to a sound balance… the amp being the final component. You have really good components, so worth really taking some time. I think in your other post... | |
| Different amplifier class for different music genres? Different amps for different music would be a real waste. One appropriate amp is all that should ever be required.But it is probably useful to look at this a level higher. You can pretty easily accidentally put your system together which favors ce... | |
| Buying used: how old is too old? 4-5 years… absolutely go for it. I have not often bought used, but did a couple times… high end 4 -5 years old I would just consider, broken in for you. Speakers tend to have very long lifetimes. I have had some speakers for over 20 years and I st... | |
| Sound bar versus surround system I have a high end surround system in our living room and a sound bar in the bedroom. While sound bars are not surround system… they can be really useful in bedrooms. They can simulate a much bigger and complex sound in the front. You need one with... | |
| Help Me Improve My Turntable Set-Up Harbeth speakers have a great reputation. They have great potential.What specifically is the problem. Lack of bass? Lack of details… imaging?What is your room like? What is your speaker placement? Is all the equipment broken in… that is do all the... | |
| Vinyl guy seeking recommendation for a top level cd player It is very pretty. I’ll be interested to hear your impressions. | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) @knighttodd. +1 | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) Yes, I do. I would find a way to listen to one.. see if you like the sound. My first good preamp was a used Audio Reseach. It took me out of the preamp market for over ten years… and slowly over the decades I was swayed to an all ARC system. I own... | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) Preamps are really critical components to a system… of course they all are… but it is the component you build a system around. This is also the perfect place for tubes… you can put a really magical quality (not artificially so) by the careful choi... | |
| Looks for Headphone Tube Amp My experience is portable are generally not nearly as good as desktop, I have tried a few. I definitely include my own A&K Ultimate SP1000 (~ $3.5K) with attached extra amp. It is good, but not nearly as good as a similar desktop equipment. | |
| Auralic Aries The noise in the Aries G2 is having a high noise floor… not a sssssh coming out of the speakers. Just in case someone thought that was what I was talking about. |