ghdprentice
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| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? Mathew Halsall Peter Nuust Saint Disruption Red Mitchell Sara Bareilles and so many albums of artists I have known for a long long time. | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing +1 Used: Conrad Johnson Audio Research VAC | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing Let's not make this too complicated. You don't bias preamp tubes. Tube rolling is not a requirement. In my fifty years I have never thought about electrical compatibility between a preamp and amp and had a problem. So, I would choose a preamp for ... | |
| Tweaking Your Speaker Placement I used to own planar speaker... those tend to be the ones that are that sensitive to really minor adjustments. I use a laser measurer... and then the sound can literally snap into focus. Dynamic speakers tend to be less sensitive. | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? I use Music Direct if want a new album. Typically buying only audiophile pressings. I have had very bad luck with Amazon. If I want used, I go to a local store so I can examine the record carefully. | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers I used hospital grade outlets when I first installed my direct lines. Then as an experiment to see if it made a difference I swapped one for a Furutech GTX-D NCF(R) Ultimate Nano-Crystal Rhodium-Plated AC Duplex Receptacle. Once I heard the differ... | |
| Help With Streamer - Aurender, Auralic, HIFI Rose, Eversolo A10, etc. I am over 70 and have followed the development of streaming / streamers over the last couple decades. It is not overly complicated, if you do not want it to be. The good news is that you can skip the many intermediary steps and go right to the hig... | |
| Streamer apps critical @moonwatcher Banks would not be using this approach or most global companies. But yes comments are still best practice and now frequently in user exits... depending on the application. A story just for you, on commenting. I was implemen... | |
| YOUR AUDIOPHILE JOURNEY WHEN DID IT START AND HOW DID YOU GET TO YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? @noromance Subject... not using my vinyl rig. Well, I have not sold my vinyl or analog front end. I am toying with the ideal of upgrading to great cartridge I heard on an Audiogoner’s system, a Esturo Gold cartridge. I am sure with its amazi... | |
| Cardas Clear Speaker Cables? While I have a little experience with the Cygnus, I have much more experience with Clear Reflections and Clear Beyond. The further up the chain you go, the more detailed and neutral they are. That is how they are designed. Warm to support lower le... | |
| Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong? When in high school we had a Sears "portable stereo" on a metal stand. The speakers were detachable. My friend and I would put the speakers on the floor and take turns putting our head in between. It greatly improved the bass and dynamic range.... | |
| Should I replace my 20-year-old Hovland Radia Amp? See if you can audition an Audio Research Ref 160 or VSi 75. Perfect match for your speakers and preamp. | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? There are tons of spectaculary bad analog and digital recordings. Also, spectacularly good ones. In part it depends on when they were made. In the late fifties most of the finest recordings ever produced were made. They were all analog. But during... | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? The Aurender AP20 looks interesting. I have not been impressed with their earlier DACs. Streamer, top notch but not their DACs. I was interested to read this review. I have not heard one, so I can’t comment on the unit or this review. But looks li... | |
| Streamer apps critical @moonwatcher I have no idea. These days there are a couple of camps of developers, The professionals, trained in structured development using standardized tools. Then the net has nurtured a huge number of "wild Wild West" multilingual coders and... |