ghdprentice
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| New cables - To judge now or after burn in period? Your observations are exactly what I would expect from silver interconnects and cables that were not broken in. Having a host of stuff at once makes it a bit hard because of the pressure to evaluate. Take what you take to be the best of them, put ... | |
| To Stream or Not to Stream @mijostyn. “Streaming is for background music only. In no way shape or form is it ready for serious listening. ”Like all things in audio, it depends. But if you choose equipment carefully for high fidelity. That statement is categorically wrong.... | |
| New Preamplifier Testing (Poor sound) Make sure you have at least 200 hours of play on it. It may improve in sound for over 400 hours. It is unlikely it will not sound better than your old one when broken in.iI is very unlikely running your DAC output into your amp will sound good. It... | |
| Pass XA100.8 or X260.8 Great system you have. I have owned Pass amps for 40 years… most recently the X350. I would definitely go the XA100 route. You get a more natural musical sound. Which after many years of pursuing greater and greater slam and detail I realized kept... | |
| Tube based phono stage My experience with phonostages are that they are really critical to analog playback and given your other equipment it would recommend you to shop used and try and reach up another level. Phonostages get much better at around twice your budget. Aud... | |
| To Stream or Not to Stream I don’t feel nostalgic about being freed from listening to what I purchased and physicaly posses. A little time with the freedom from needing to physically possessed music and I started exploring more kinds of music and revisiting music much less ... | |
| What will you pay for a new LP? I have 2,000 lps, mostly in pristine condition. I’ll pay up to about $40. But I prefer to brouse the used store and pick up albums in great shape for $5 - 15 then carefully clean them, LAST preserve them and add to my collection. | |
| To Stream or Not to Stream I highly recommend Aurender streamers. I think to combination of the Yggi and the Aurender streamer is a good one. I have two Aurender Streamers 100N and W20SE. Personally I recommend not ripping your CDs. I would focus investing in components to ... | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) @tomic601 .Sweet doggy. We had a pair of black labs a long time ago… loved them very much. You have a house full of beautiful systems as well. I had Apogee’s for many years. | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson @jjss49 .Very true… actually on some components also… particularly on source. I chose carefully on the CD player I bought in the past. Too resolving and you can have many recordings sound bad because the high end is tuned up to catch every detail ... | |
| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. @mijostyn.Well, I am talking about acoustic live music. Electrified concerts are frequently terrible sounding… you are listening to an audio system in a location of terrible acoustics. I stopped going to concerts like that twenty years ago. Live m... | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson @steakster .Yep, the better the system the more any change matters. Really high resolving speaker enhance this. | |
| How many dealers do you use? On average I probably go through an upgrade cycle every ten years and it takes one to two years to do it. I just love the time in between enjoying the music.One of the reasons I have been active on the forums is that over the last couple years I u... | |
| Is your now then? @yaddy.+1 | |
| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. @tomwh " The biggest issue I see with the out spoken people is there lack of experience with live real music. They always fall back on detail and pump up highs. They use the terms air around instrument , black background, neutral, sound stage, etc... |