ghdprentice
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| Room with glass windows as a walls. If acoustic treatments are not possible. Then the route to go would be to use very warm components and speakers, less resolving lowering treble. | |
| Six DAC Comparison I doubt that many folks go for PRaT only. Over my time pursuing the high end I ran into PRaT only systems, and was shockingly moved… but kept going because while they were incredibly emotionally involving… but they had wacko tonal balance and and ... | |
| Component matching expertise - how do you do it? Well, great question. But there is no easy answer. While components must be technically compatible. For the last fifty years I have chosen components and generally looked no deeper into technical aspects than watts per channel, current of the amp ... | |
| Interconnect Break In? OP 👍 | |
| Adding tube sound to my SS system Wow. Thanks for the detailed report. really appreciated. Lots of work on your side! Good for you. But a question… I know you are doing this in a really short time… is all this equipment fully broken in? … as having 150 - 200 hours of play time be... | |
| power cable tryout High fidelity cables has me wondering..... need suggestions now My mental bias if looking at power cords has always been that they must sound the same… I mean it’s just power. I have learned through experience, no matter how counterintuitive it is, they usually sound different. | |
| Interconnect Break In? I’ve pursued high end audio for fifty years. I have spent hundreds of hours comparing high end audio interconnects, speaker wires and power cords. Breaking is substantial and not in your head. 150 to 200 hours is very typical. I find a couple comp... | |
| The best customer experience I've ever had...... Congratulations, great to hear you have had such a great experience, and congrats on the new gear. | |
| Ohm owners: What headphones do you use? My partner had a Walsh system. Not my cup of tea… however, it gives me the experience to try and help. I’m thinking Grado are the only ones that I have heard that strike me as laid back as the Walsh. Probably close to the level you already hav... | |
| ??? How Much Would You Spend ??? My rule of thumb is 30% speakers, 15% preamp, 15% amp, 15% DAC and 15% streamer. Just a generality. If I was doing it I would be getting $10K components. This level gets you very top notch components that will sound great and last for decades. I j... | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? @12many… “that for my ear, with each bump up in resolution or detail due to better components, the tone or frequency shifted slightly upwards, making the entire presentation seem a tad bit brighter”. +1 For me as well. That is an easy path... | |
| Six DAC Comparison OP… “but something that requires the reader to be more sensitive to the words written and sometimes “read between the lines” to identify both negative as well as positive aspects of the equipment being reviewed.”. Just in case this isn’t obvio... | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones I have a big head as well. I am sure lots of folks can attest to that.😊 I have had a headphone system since the 70’s. Over the last fifteen years I finally went all out to put together a really great system. Among others I have Focal Utopia, S... | |
| Audio Research Reference Phono 3 versus Nagra Classic Phono I have all Audio Research equipment. ARC REF 6SE preamp now. I have owned the ARC PH8, REF3, and now the Ref3SE phonostage. I have found the ARC equipment to be very synergistic. They are voiced the same so there is no loss from one component bein... | |
| Speakers for Luxman LX-380 Oops. I was going to recommend Sonus Faber… but that am- has very little power. You’ll need a specialty speaker that sounds good with very low power.. |