ghdprentice
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| DAC RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE There has been a lot of discussion about the DiectStream DACs on the forum and a friend of mine got one, and that sent it back. There have been lots of questions about a high noise floor and some questions on design and construction. Many folks re... | |
| Help with speaker selection I find using a Bard comparison as a good place to start. It is typically pretty accurate.. but occasionally can a bit off… it can gets one adjective wrong. But great place to get a feel for the differences: Comparing High-End Audio Speakers: R... | |
| Help with speaker selection So you are keeping the electronics you have? Or are they going with the other speakers? After decades with other speaker types I accidentally ran into Sonus Faber speakers about fifteen years ago. They have a natural and organic sound that no ... | |
| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC Berkeley Alpha. I love my Audio Research Reference CD9SE. I had a Berkeley Alpha Reference 3 in my system for a couple weeks. I found the ARC a tad more musical… my preference, but the Berkeley was ever so much more detailed with nearly all th... | |
| Why Music Is Good For The Brain @noromance 😊. I did. While bicycling around the country , the motel discount was useful. But, there are lots of ways to get that. | |
| Why Music Is Good For The Brain i apologize. Sorry I have to say this with as many old folks on this forum. I am sure it is a great article. AARP is in a very close “partnership” with United Healthcare. Billions of dollars flow between these two organizations A fact that is ... | |
| It's attention, not money, we should budget Using lots of time, attention, and money make for the best systems. We are all budget bound on one or more of these. So if financially bound, then invest more heavily in the others. What your time is worth is both a function of how much money you ... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Identifying yourself and affiliation in your profile and in posts is the ethical thing to do. My opinion of someone that does not drops precipitously if I have to figure it out. There may be a rule or not… but if I have to figure it out, I would n... | |
| Ripping CDs Borrow one? Although it is time consuming. I had to look up your system again. Nice. But your streamer is no where near the quality of much of your system. If you get a much better streamer, there should be no sound advantage to ripped files. ... | |
| Ripping CDs Any old PC will do. No use in adding the function to a streamer. Everything from iTunes, purchased or free software will do it. Switch output format to FLAC before ripping. I would suggest always putting the max into a single function streamer. W... | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 A couple times I went to play a Quboz album in my library and a dialog box came up saying “15 songs (all) were no longer available would I like to remove them from my library?” I said no, and it went on to play them all. | |
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? As many have said… it depends. The recommended toe in, or not, is a starting point. My manufacturer recommends to start by crossing the beams behind your head by about 18”. Turns out in my room with my setup, no toe in results in the widest and d... | |
| Phono cable not caps to le with preamp? Sounds like maybe a defective phonostage. 🙁 | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 Conductor works well on the iPad as the OP says. This version of conductor is very new… a month or two, so it still has some bugs… fortunately I haven’t run into any of them. But there is enhanced access to cover art and album info… which over tim... | |
| Lumin U2 or Aurender N200 OP, Thanks for reporting your results. I’m very happy to hear your results. |