ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s I am an Audio Research fan. I would be looking for a VT or REF. I helped a friend put together a system recently and he purchased the VT80s. Outstanding amp. If you can find a used one I highly recommend stretching if required. I have a Ref 160s. ... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps @atmasphere You bring up a good point, which hopefully is not poorly understood. It is certainly worth highlighting. Absolutely different designers / companies have vastly different sonic objectives…. Like Wilson, B&W, Conrad Johnson, Mac... | |
| Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Amp Pairing suggestions Once again @soix +1 I am powering my Sonus Faber Amati Traditional with an Audio Research Reference 160s in triode mode… so 70wpc and can play them louder, many times the volume I would ever want listen to without loss of dynamics. If tubed am... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review @czarivey Cynical and wrong. There is real information, you simply need to read a lot and be able to read between the lines… about the reviewer and products. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review @roadcykler It is in no one’s best interest to review a bad product. No one. You can be sure a company making terrible sounding gear is not going to be submitting it for review and no reviewer is likely to choose it.. @soix +1 Reading revie... | |
| Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Amp Pairing suggestions @soix +1 Wow. That is fast upgrading. Congratulations. You have some word class speakers there. I completely agree with Soix. You want to let them break in and more importantly, you need to understand what your system sounds like so you can mak... | |
| Amp suggestion for BW 800D3 The classic would be MacIntosh… a massive 1,000 wpc amp. It is the muscle/ muscle combination that many folks buying those speakers go for. A Pass 350.8 would be more detailed. If I had them I would do an Audio Research Reference preamp and a pass... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Having given it a little more thought. I would not call it a review. More of a quick note that the table exists and may be worthy of further investigation. An information note. I flipped through the most recent edition. There are full form... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review I would not call it a review. More of a quick note that the table exists and may be worthy of further investigation. I flipped through the most recent edition. There are full format reviews on a number of the components: Burmeister turntable, ... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Yes, that was a grossly abbreviated… more of a description. Not a review. | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? I would not expect pushback either. It has been obvious to me for over thirty years. In addition to the power grid, there is a reduction of traffic. The vibration caused by truck and nearer cars are likely causes. I have a high quality seismometer... | |
| Kind of Blue Ouch… my ears…Holdsworth… after seeing Return to Forever and Kind of Blue I was not expecting that. | |
| Qobuz vs. Tidal OP, So the issue is with the Conductor app. Are you using version 3 or 4? Aurender introduced the new Conductor 4 app a few months ago. There have been some problems for some folks, it was a major upgrade. I have introduced new software to large... | |
| power cord for pass 250.8 I just have to say that my search for the right power cord went on for nearly a year. The problem I had was that most cords (high end) would ever so slightly attenuate the treble. The Hurricane did not… even a little. So, perhaps it depends on wha... | |
| Qobuz vs. Tidal @jgjg123 Qobuz has the best sound quality and a much larger collection of high resolution albums than Tidal. If you are using a streamer the software is constructed by the streamer manufacturer and not Qobuz. How are you streaming? I have us... |