ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Upgrade from BluNode 2i with a new DAC or Integrated Streamer DAC? @soix +1 Fatigue can come from both streamer and DAC. Your hearing can’t be too bad or you would not be experiencing fatigue. At your investment level there is much to be gained from improvements in both streamer and DAC. Upgrades will i... | |
| TAS. The Absolute Sound? A little (lot) more context would be helpful. | |
| The time has come and I request advice... Most likely the functionality of streamers continue to improve, leading to reduced subscriber numbers until they get bought and incorporated into one company’s products. Or they try and hold on, updates become less frequent and customer support go... | |
| Music through streamer vs CD/SACD I have a high end CD player and a high end streamer. The sound quality of a red book CD is the same locally stored, from disk or from streaming. For high resolution albums, streaming sounds better. Qobuz has over half a million high resolution alb... | |
| Moving into an apartment with wood joist floors - worried about neighbors hearing That’s a great way to develop animosity and have it grow until you have a crisis. Then, your have neighbors waiting for you to disturb them, getting ticked off in silence until they are really upset. Good relationships and communication is way to ... | |
| Warped record Of course you can see why Amazon is not an ideal vendor to being giving special care to vinyl when they are shipping millions of products a day from hundreds of warehouses. | |
| Improving a stone rack Yes, I was, my first career. Lots of folks from the department went to Skaergaard. This was in the mid 70s when they were just unraveling the sedimentary features of the crystals inside the chamber. Crystal turbidities and the chemical differentia... | |
| Don’t look for perfection. That is great. I’m thinking it may depend somewhat on one’s personality. I have to admit that as technology has improved and flaws become less common… CD playback sound quality improved, streaming happened and the sound quality equaled and ex... | |
| Improving a stone rack @jallan I wonder which gabbro complex they got it from, Skaergaard, Bushveld, Muskox, Duluth? | |
| Warped record @rvpiano …Only this new one which I exchanged for a more warped one! … It doesn’t happen often… but once in a while problems compound. I ordered from Amazon about four or maybe five times. I remember returning two of them, both warps. I don’... | |
| Fritz Carrera 7 Be and 300B power amp? Also, I would think that having the speakers pointed towards the non-wall would help with tuning / treatments. | |
| Handling Heavy Amps @jerry_b2 😁👍 | |
| The time has come and I request advice... My personal judgment on Roon is from personal experience with it (complicated) and forty years of implementing information technology. I have experienced generations of operating systems, hardware, and dozens and dozens of software suites and hund... | |
| Improving a stone rack I have a granite amp stand. I found it effective to place vibrapods (there are many alternatives) under the granite to isolate the slab, then springs between the component and the slab. So, micro vibrations do not get transmitted into the slab fro... | |
| The time has come and I request advice... +1 Aurender. I would not go the Roon route, costs, adds complications, not much of a long term future. Aurender Conductor app is well regarded. It is improving as well. |