ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| The Folly of Chasing Nostalgia and the Reality of the Room Thanks for sharing your experience, unfortunate as it may have been for you. I have to admit when I feel a bit nostalgic I tend to dismiss it. Not sure I have chased it in audio, but in other areas it has proven to be problematic. Hopefully, your ... | |
| Am I crazy to upgrade? Great sized room and no spousal acceptance factor and you are good to go. I would look at where you should be when done. You want equal quality from source to speakers and two channel only stuff is way better than home theater components. Espe... | |
| Am I crazy to upgrade? @Kennyc @deep_333 + 1 Those are huge. Also, what is the percentage of time used for home theater vs two channel stereo? Putting together a two channel system with a home theater is a very big compromise. They have different goals and one lis... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” There are lots of different sounds available on the market. Well regarded companies have a wide variety of sound types. There are flashy "high end sounding", holographic, natural, overly powerful impactful, overly warm. At the center is natural an... | |
| Do I need new tubes? That is an odd symptom. I'll second @jond 's recommendation to put in the spare set of tubes... it'll take 10 to 20 hours for the new tubes to sound right. | |
| Am I crazy to upgrade? For upgrade strategy. Typically it is good to upgrade one component at a time. Speakers first. Then let them break in and then in light of what your system sounds like, go for the next step. Which could easily be any one of the support components.... | |
| Streamer Recommendations I would recommend a used Aurender. I still have an Aurender N100 in my headphone system. Excellent software, excellent build quality and first rate audiophile sound quality, as well as great service. I also own a Aurender W20SE ($22K) and have tri... | |
| The Disappearing Act For my current system, I knew my speakers were known to be able to achieve disappearance. But after being broken in, they did not. So there was a period of six months of slowly repositioning them until they were optimal. Then suddenly they were go... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @lalitk "...but it’s important to remember and rely on time and context to form meaningful impressions. Patience is the key in evaluating a piece of gear as sometimes subtle differences reveal themselves over days or weeks, not in an instant." ... | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? Fifty years of passionate pursuit, including constant reading, major multiple year upgrade cycles every five to ten years, an increasingly successful career and ten years of season tickets to the symphony and lots of acoustic jazz concerts. During... | |
| How much dirt is too much dirt I have no idea quantitatively. I have been pursuing high end audio for fifty years and each step with cleaner power has instant benefits to the sound quality. So, hence good quality preamps, DACS, streamers... etc, weigh 40 lbs or more, most dedic... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? I actually look at bloom as “lack of attenuation”. Unless it is actually in excess of live sound that is what it means. But I think over representation of midrange was something that happened a lot mid-twentieth century, but not much now… well at ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? A new reissue of the 1955 recording Latin Kick by Cal Tjader… great recording… from that golden era of recording. On Qobuz as a newly released jazz album. | |
| There Is Nothing Like the Real Thing - Our State of the Art Thank you for your observations. I understand what you are saying. I think there are a lot of companies chasing different sound... as you have mentioned. Like you, I have spent a lot of time listening to live acoustic music, with the intent moving... | |
| DAC vs CD Player for cd playback with computer audio - Help old timer out I’m an old timer as well. Also, a big fan of Audio Research, for simply performance reasons. My main system is all Audio Research. You can see photos under my User ID. I use an Audio Research Reference CD9 SE as my DAC. It is simply outstanding an... |