ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| An audio component you just can't let go You know, no. Each step I have made forward (since a few mis-steps very early on) have been substantially enough to immediately dissolve attachment. The only thing I have kept is my Marantz 2040 integrated that I bought irresponsibly in colleg... | |
| Wilson Alexia 2 lacking some bass Wow, beautiful system you have assembled. All broken in? Correct? A system like that at least 500 hours… but the bass should be real close after 200. It would be of great help to see photos. You can easily post them by creating a virtual system. Y... | |
| Single ended = large images? I have some great memories of Cary amps… and yes the images were nice and fat (not obese)… and warm and embracing. They were inviting and natural. I’ll let someone comment on specific models. You can also effect specificity of imagine with speake... | |
| Bluesound Node130 LPS upgrade... @gkelly +1 It would very very helpful to see your system. I see you started one, but no photos. It is always best to consider full component upgrades as opposed to frittering away smaller sums on add on or small improvements. In the ear... | |
| Where to purchase cables? @rikkipuu +1 I have Blue Jean cables collecting dust as well… they sounded the same to me a the budget Best Buy or Amazon. Typically that is the experience I have had with budget brands. | |
| Streamer recommendations I highly recommend listening before buying. dCs is very polite sounding and a bit clinical. If you like that kind of sound, great. But it leaves me unmoved.There streamer is also very dependent on the incoming signal, so hardwiring it is a must, o... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. @mulveling Thank you for your comments. I find my observations very roughly follow yours… but you mention dark… I my observational word is solidity. So, definitely not the same but in a broad spectrum… over in the same area. I’ll have to ponder ... | |
| Aurender Model Choices Oh. I just noticed the version on my Aurrender is 4.24.133 (so the firmware version on my Aurrender box) but the version of Conductor is 4.22.11.12. My bad. No problems with it though. | |
| Aurender Model Choices @audphile1 Mine is a iPhone 16 Pro Max as well. I guess if you have some desire to move forward, you could delete the app… I assume it would load the new. But I am sure you know this. I’m just saying in case this is of value to anyone else. | |
| Aurender Model Choices @dwest1023 No crash problems with my iPhone. Mine is at version 4.24.133 | |
| Power cord Assuming you have the sound quality you want and do not want the tonal balance changed at all, I recommend a used AudioQuest Hurricane. High level Nordost are great … but at this intermediate level (for Nordodt), I would recommend the AudioQuest. ... | |
| 30 yr old speakers- time to replace drivers? I agree, I would not put money into a thirty year old speaker. There have been huge improvements in every aspect of design. | |
| Looking for more advice on purchasing a new turntable. I have a high end analog end… Linn LP12 (near Klimax), Audio Research Reference 3SE phono stage, Koetsu Signature cartridge, Silent Running Isolation Platform (see my system under ID) ($45K). Each month I get excited to pull out one of my 2,000 vi... | |
| Does old-fashioned necessarily mean out of date? @mahgister Interesting observation / perspective. It makes some sense… that as performance has increased different sound quality paths have emerged… with greater detail, transparency… etc. different companies have taken different directions. ... | |
| Does old-fashioned necessarily mean out of date? High end audio continues to advance in all tiers. One of my observations has been that really high end stuff tends to remain exceptional for very long periods of time… ten years or more. The other individual issue is how well the product fits your... |