ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Using 2 different brands of interconnects? $100 is relatively inexpensive for interconnects. The correct answer is, “it depends” the better your components, the bigger the difference you are likely to hear. But if your components are under a couple thousand each, it is unlikely to be notic... | |
| My Last CD player To me it was worth getting a streamer that was equivalent to or better than my CD player. Then the amount of music available is nearly infinite at almost no cost. If you can find a CD with different files... you can always rip it. But I have found... | |
| High expectations when listening to an orchestra I have also had season tickets to the symphony for about ten years. In retrospect that experience quickly started influencing decisions I made in system upgrades. I had happened to have accidentally bought a house with a large listening area with ... | |
| Streamer upgrade I would recommend looking at the Aurender versus Aries G2. I have owned both. I found, in general, the Aurender to be quieter with a more open soundstage. | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? For high-end interconnects. I always go into a set of interconnects with great skepticism. Normally I will have just upgraded one or more components, so I am calibrated as to what it cost me for the component (cost per sound improvement) I just bo... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? @ozzy62 +1 ! | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? It strongly depends on your system. Typically cabling is chosen for a level of equipment. For instance I had purchased some Transparent cables ($1,800?) about 25 years ago... they sounded terrible... because they passed through the harsh trebly si... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @sokogear +1 👍 | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F @alexbergeri just happen to be listening to Mingus, Ah Um, one of the great albums from the late 1950s... I have lots of them... they are spectacular.But old speakers? Really? I can’t remember anything of much merit other than Quad... the others ... | |
| JBL Synthesis SDP-75 What were your impressions listening to them? | |
| Cheap Audio Cables That is really valuable work for those getting started. When you don’t have big bucks to spend someone doing the tedious work of comparing is really useful... someone can build on your work.What were the high end ones you tried and returned? | |
| A phenomenal new CD transport-Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 transport There are only a few cd transport manufactures. The high end companies buy those and shield, isolate from vibration and my modify them. I have hear Audio Research just discontinued their manufacture of REF CD9se because the manufacturer stopped ma... | |
| Older vs. newer REL subs My rule of thumb is ten years makes for a significant improvement in sound from a line or company or a technology (high-end stuff). | |
| What’s a mistake you made by being impulsive? Add Monster To the marketing hype companies like Bose has been. (Although Bose finally came up with a nice sounding headphones... although not remotely accurate). | |
| phase linear 500 watt per chanell amp I lived with one of those. It was amazing... ground breaking for 1978 (?)... but unrefined and noisy by today’s standards. it’s been a long time, but I doubt it sounds better now. .For most of my time as an audiophile Carver was out there doing wi... |