ghdprentice
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Please explain mono @lalitk +1 well said. While I know some real advocates for mono… those saying the mono Beatles audiophile reissue has better tone and sounds better. For me personally, and this is me not everyone, mono recording are a huge letdown. The music... | |
Balance on Tube Amp Sounds like you do not have a preamp. There are multiple reasons to use a preamp, balance control is on of them.. a good one will improve the sound quality significantly in nearly all systems. | |
Analog invites you to turn up the volume I made the same observation that vinyl sounded more natural and was more emotionally involving in most systems leading up to around 2010 (since 1982 when the CD was released). But the advance of DACs and streamers and ancillary equipment has be... | |
??? What Is The MOST Expensive System You Ever Heard ??? What Was Your Opinion ??? I had a revelatory experience with a ~$1 million dollar Wilson / Roland system many years ago. The system was carefully set up… in fact the sweet spot was on a chair on a custom built raised platform. It was a permanent setup in an audio store. I... | |
Analog invites you to turn up the volume @macg19 I am not trying to be argumentative, but add some detail to my comments. While the very significant shortcomings of digital equipment lasted until… well let’s say the last ten years. Now digital can sound pretty much as the designer desi... | |
New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid @livinon2wheels If you are considering spending that kind of money then it is worth investing in a trip to hear them and a few competitors, even it it requires flying. Hopefully you have heard and like Walsh… but i owned a pair long ago and woul... | |
Analog invites you to turn up the volume The overall presentation characteristics are created by your equipment not the media. Each leg, digital or analog is a chain of electronics that produce the characteristics you hear at the end. One can sound exceptionally better or worse or differ... | |
Room setting: new amp or new speakers? @soix +1 Start with speakers. Then orient addition purchases to support them. You want additional component to break in and drive your next purchase decision unless you are wealthy enough and sure enough of what you are doing to purchase the spe... | |
what dacs are fast, lively, energetic? @decooney ..." Agree, and it (Benchmark) was also the only DAC I ever sent back, fast. Fast, kind of sterile, and mostly un-engaging for me. +1 @tomwipf ..."Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty beat my dCS Bartok Apex in every aspect. " +1 dCS is very... | |
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @Lalitk @soix +1 The sound quality coming from a CD player is the sum of all its internal component... physical transport, streamer, and DAC (as well as its power supply, internal design, case... etc). The quality of streaming is the quality o... | |
Why isn’t more detail always better? Good thought that detail is not only in the treble. Although that is where we think of it. But it is also in the midrange and bass. One of the biggest revelations to me was when changing to tubed amps the nuance of bass that I had never heard befo... | |
Good service from DH Labs I have been dealing with DHLabs since it was just started by the founder over two decades ago. They do a great job and take their businesses seriously. Great company. | |
Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Choose wisely. I happily upgraded my system right before and after retiring. Both were upgrades and musical with more tubes. One thing you really don’t want to do is make your system more flashy sounding (I’m thinking Luxman as an example)… make y... | |
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? I don’t. When streaming rose to the same quality of CD and vinyl I dropped CD almost immediately. I have 2,000 CDs and 2,000 pristine vinyl albums. Then slowly stopped listening to my vinyl. Then stopped listening to the same old music I’ve listen... | |
what dacs are fast, lively, energetic? Have a listen to Benchmark also. From your description you are not looking for analog like sound... but the open / detailed sound that @hk_fan refered to. |