ghdprentice
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| Auralic Aries I first got an Aurender N100 for my headphone system while I had the Aries G2 in my main system… I was really impressed… it is really quiet with natural sounding stable images. I felt Aurender is in a whole different class than the Aries. I always... | |
| Best dac under $2500 - comparing build quality and technologies My evaluation to choose a DAC for a friend included Ayre, Auralic, Linn, Audio Research. Berkeley, Sim, and Schiit.. I read multiple reviews on all the units I heard and their competition in order to calibrate. I actually bought a Schiit Gungnir m... | |
| Best dac under $2500 - comparing build quality and technologies I recommend a Schiit Yggdrasil. I did a lot of research and listening for a friend and chose the Yggdrasil as definitely the winner anywhere in that price range.~ | |
| Auralic Aries No moving parts generally bodes well for used equipment. I owned a Aries G2 for about a year. Good sounding unit… then upgraded to Aurender. | |
| Looking for an amp that punches way about its weight and I can grow with Unfortunately I have found that there is an invariable positive correlation between weight and high sound quality. | |
| After 50 years, I have finally found my destination amps... AGD Audions! Congratulations. I think it is incredibly gratifying to purse something for this long and to reach the pinnacle at this time in our lives. I think I bought my Marantz 1060 in 1972. I am enjoying my system as well. | |
| Audio Research No Longer Has A CD Player In Its Product Lineup ARC discontinued their CD players because the manufacturer of their transports discontinued production. I don’t know if they will bother to make another one. The age of the CD is over… just most people haven’t figured that out yet.The ARC player i... | |
| Separate Amp for AV receiver I have a great HT system, built around a high end Meridian surround processor, and a massive Rotel 5 channel amp, and B&W 805 speakers and subs. While it isn’t in serious competition with my two channel system, it sounds great. The same princi... | |
| New Speakers $10K -$20K In the May/June issue of The Absolute Sound Alan Taffel talks about compact reference systems… which addresses, a little, the close to the wall speaker problem. He mentioned the Wilson Duette as about the only choice when up against the wall. You... | |
| Looking for preamp which is good at BOTH single-ended AND balanced output My equipment is Audio Research. It supports both single ended and balanced. The designs are balance, ARC recommends using balanced. I have compared both… the difference is just plain minuscule. The differences between different component brands or... | |
| New Speakers $10K -$20K I have Sonus Fabre Amati Traditional. They are wonderful speakers and are placed center to a room roughly of the same size. They are gorgeous, although outside your price target. They fill the room with sound well. | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration The springs in the turntable are to isolate the turntable from higher frequency noise. Not footfalls and subwoofers. Typically the solution on floating floors is to decouple it from the floor and use a wall mounted turntable shelf. | |
| TUBES Elliot is correct. These tubes are small, they last multiple thousands of hours. Particularly when you first get into tubes it is a little disconcerting. It is power amps that have shorter a tube life. But with modern equipment even these are gett... | |
| Conrad Johnson vs Van Alst Conrad Johnson makes outstanding high end audio gear. It is known for its excellent musicality, build quality, and will last a lifetime. This is the kind of gear worthy of the price. I worked with a friend to pick his out over 25 years ago. He sti... | |
| TUBES Also, channels need to matched… so pairs, quads, need to be matched. There is a small charge to make sure the output is matched. |