ghdprentice
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| Then I Got a Pulse, Now I'm a Believer OP, Is this stuff all broken in? Make sure you have at least 100 hours... preferably 200 hours on each device before drawing conclusions. I am listening to a new component and if I had drawn a conclusion on the first few days it would have been... | |
| Exceding recommended power rating The more watts you have... holding all other things the same... the better the first watt (or ten) will sound, especially with solid state. For me, loudness has nothing to do with why I have purchased high output amp... it is about the solidity a... | |
| Conflicted with Preamps @yyzsantabarbara +1 I agree. Breakin is critical. I used an Ai for this. But, it is likely to be pretty close to what you will experience. The Quad will require at least a hundred hours if you want to know what it will sound like. McInt... | |
| ??? What Is Your Favorite Speaker Finish ??? Sonus Faber Red Violin. The layers of "varnish" on top of the wood contains tiny flecks of something sparkling... It is the most beautiful finish I have ever seen, on anything. | |
| How Much to Spend on Turntable, Cart., Phono Pre A quick look over your system an it appears you have a pretty well balanced system. The Focal tend to be a bit hot at the top end, which would be countered but the tubed preamp and Pass amp. Generally the investment levels look good across the cor... | |
| Audioquest Water interconnects Contemporary Audio Quest power cables are nothing less than revelatory. There had to have been a redesign of their High end stuff a two or three years ago, because prior to that they were nothing to write home about. The Audio Quest cable with t... | |
| Will AI. Minimize the Design differences of audio The AI's are really good at questions like: "Compare the sound characteristics between x and y amp". It gets a little more iffy if you ask for recommendations, as it has access to lots of marketing info and it can be a little less discriminating..... | |
| Exceding recommended power rating I have powered my system with amps in great excess for decades. You do not want to try an exceed 120db ear splitting loudness... but more power nearly always sound better | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? Typically, these days you can equal things by carefully choosing and investing about the same amount as your analog rig. For me my digital and analog sound simply stunning and the same... as I desired. You can see my systems under my userID. For ... | |
| Selling collection directly in the pacific northwest? Where are you located? Seattle area? I'm down in the Portland area. If you would like to talk, I'd be happy to. You can seen me a direct message, but do not try to share your contact info. That isn't allowed, If here you might talk to Echo Audio... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound Well if you are not wed to horns then Magico. These require really good electronics... or you are going to hear what is not good about them. Also, I would look into some of the great ribbon and Electrostatic. These generally require high power am... | |
| Will AI. Minimize the Design differences of audio No. Because there. Are many flavors of the desired “ideal“ sound. | |
| Then I Got a Pulse, Now I'm a Believer Congratulations. Yep, the better the streamer the better the sound. | |
| Ceriously, it all started with a power cable @roadcykler "...Who knew that wiring of any kind had a "break-in" period?... Actually everyone who is experienced in high end audio. It is an obvious, consistent and unfortunately repeatable phenomenon that makes testing and purchasing cables (an... | |
| Perhaps an ARC gain/matching problem? I climbed from the PH2 in small increments to the PH8.. then jumped to the Ref 3 phonostage and Ref 5se... now 6se. Sounds like the Ref1 has a problem... probably with the mod? |