ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Lots of cubic feet I doubt it is the ceilings. Placement, components... which B&W. All matter. B&W tend to be good with bass. | |
| Biggest audio hoaxes I haven’t actually run into any real hoaxes. I do a lot of research. Also, the CD Stop light pens work. Not night and day, but a noticeable improvement. There are still professional reviews of the pens. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @lckluiano “This new generation care more about how loud their system sounds, than how clean and natural it may sound. ”.Funny you say that. That was the primary interest initially when I got into high end audio in the 70’s. I forgot. But it morp... | |
| Does length matter ? Keeping the same length is the “correct” thing to do. I have just always stuck with the rule. Once I had heard the huge differences in interconnects and cables... and had gone through extensive (hundreds of hours of) comparisons carefully noting t... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? It has always been a very esoteric pursuit. It takes unique interests in music, a technical bent, with an appreciation of achieving the pinnacle of what is possible. Typically someone that likes to spend time alone. .In the 60’s and 70’s many coll... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @syndication. If you have $20K invested in used equipment at age 35 you have spent more than I had at your age ($ adjusted). High end audio has always been the pursuit of a few people of the best possible musical reproduction and experience. If yo... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @athrillofhopeYou are very correct. No question.. but take a deep breath... relax... enjoy the moment. Put on some Kitaro. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @kren0006. “... but for the older gents here, at the Hi-Fi height, let’s say 1970’s, what percentage of middle class households had what we would consider a hi-end system?10%? 20%? More?...”Excellent question. In the 1970’s. Much less than 1%Th... | |
| Keeping backup equipment? Let’s see how many amps have I had go out... in fifty years... actually more like 60 years... 0 failures. | |
| Help connecting a source directly to an amp You can get an analog output from a phone through apple connectors... I assume an old phone so simple, the 1/8” inch socket on the bottom. The connectors on the amp must be RCA... unless it is something really out in left field. You can get 1/8” o... | |
| Why dont more standalone DACs come with ethernet??? @treebeard1. “However, many DACs take ethernet direct and there is no need for USB...” .Then that is technically a DAC with a streamer. A pure DAC will not have that function. .There is the streamer function, the DAC function, the preamp function,... | |
| Speaker cables under 1k used I agree, Nordost can be tricky. Their high end interconnects on high end system are truly amazing, but less exotic systems they can reveal system weaknesses... sound bright and thin. | |
| Why dont more standalone DACs come with ethernet??? The internet transports packeted data. Digital words made up of digits that have address information and sequence numbers so they can be transmitted through the internet and reassembled at the user site. They need to be received and translated. Th... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? It is true the pandemic has catapulted the business. My audio guy has been in business for over twenty years and has never seen this level of demand. So, this will probably have created a bunch of new enthusiasts. And music never goes out of fashi... | |
| Best Digital Interface @mahler123. “I thought the issue was that usb delivers info in packets, and that t.....”.I think you are thinking of ethernet. Network connections are packetized. On the other side of the music server comes either USB or traditional digital stream... |